Reacting to footage of the “invasion” by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), author and activist Naomi Klein…
Reacting to footage of the “invasion” by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), author and activist Naomi Klein said it was “a shameful day for Canada, which has marketed itself as a progressive leader on climate and Indigenous rights.”
Klein condemned the government’s raid on unceded Wet’suwet’en territory and the arrest of First Nations land defenders, “all for a gas pipeline that is entirely incompatible with a safe climate.”
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It’s also interesting to note that every indigenous tribe along the route of the proposed pipeline has signed on to the construction – and also interesting to note that this article makes no reference to that, or to the extensive environmental assessment and exhaustive consultations with the indigenous population along that route that has already taken place.
If you want us to leave it in the ground, then stop buying oil.
Wet’suwet’en house chiefs, who are hereditary rather than elected, have not given consent.
A news release issued Sunday on behalf of Grand Chief Stewart Phillip of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs says all five Wet’suwet’en clans, including the Gidimt’en, oppose the construction of oil and gas pipelines in their territory.
ctvnews.ca – RCMP arrest 14 people taking part in anti-LNG pipeline protest
Thanks A. Randomjack
A little more about the conflict
youtube.com – First Nations Pipeline Protest: 14 Land Protectors Arrested as Canadian Police Raid Indigenous Camp
“Invasion” wherever one looks.
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And if that is not enough, WHERE will the US Base be built…..???? (I go from it, that it WILL be set up) https://www.france24.com/en/20190104-jair-bolsonaro-says-open-usa-military-base-brazil-0