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RCMP concerned Indigenous rights advocates will gain public support: new study | The Narwhal

The report says government and RCMP documents uncovered through access to information requests indicate the police are not assessing Indigenous protests in Canada based on factors of criminality but are more concerned about the protestors’ ability to gain public support.

It also shows the government’s risk assessments of Indigenous protests, court injunctions initiated by private corporations against Indigenous people, and RCMP policing tactics all favour corporate interests and private property rights over Indigenous rights and title.

This includes the current resistance by land defenders and hereditary chiefs to the Coastal GasLink LNG pipeline slated to run through unceded Wet’suwet’en territory.

January 19, 2020

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‘They are erasing our history’: Indigenous sites buried under Coastal GasLink pipeline infrastructure | The Narwhal

According
to Wet’suwet’en oral history, the Kweese War Trail is lined with the
buried bodies of warriors who lost their lives avenging the murder of
Chief Kweese’s wife and son.

The trail
— a place where Wet’suwet’en youth can literally walk in the footsteps
of their ancestors — branches out to important ancestral sites spread
throughout the traditional territory of the nation’s five clans.

But now a
100-metre portion of the trail, a critical piece of history for the
Wet’suwet’en and the origin of some of their clan crests, and another
potential archaeological site lie buried under work camps and clearcuts
for the $6.6 billion Coastal GasLink pipeline, proposed to move fracked
gas from B.C.’s northeast to Kitimat to feed LNG Canada’s $18 billion
liquified natural gas (LNG) export facility and the province’s promise of a LNG export boom.

January 18, 2020

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“We all have the same fight”: Halifax rally highlights solidarity from Mi’kma’ki to Wet’suwet’en Territory – Nova Scotia Advocate

Speakers included grassroots grandmothers and water protectors on the
front lines of resistance to Alton Gas’ highly contested natural gas
storage project. The Alton Gas project threatens to pump up to 10,000
cubic meters of brine per day into the Sipekne’katik (Shubenacadie)
River.

Grassroots grandmother Dorene Bernard spoke about how deeply
connected these two struggles are, recounting an exchange with
Wet’suwet’en hereditary Chief Na’moks: “He came to tell us about their
fight to protect their land and their water, to protect their rights to
title to their land. We walked together and I told him my story: here we
were on the other side, in Mi’kma’ki, and they were in British Columbia
on the Pacific Coast and we had the same issues. We’re talking about
our treaty rights and title to our land: what happens to our lands, what
happens to our waters and the lack of respect to our people.”

The five clans of the Wet’suwet’en Nation and their hereditary chiefs
have rejected all pipeline proposals, including the CGL project,
asserting their sovereignty on unceded territory.

January 11, 2020

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The Unist’ot’en Movement, Not the RCMP, Has the Law on Its Side | The Tyee

The people defending the land are comprised of Wet’suwet’en
hereditary chiefs and their people, who want to ensure that their lands
are protected so they can continue to practise their rights to hunting,
fishing, trapping and gathering, and exercise their right to clean air
and water and a healthy environment. Pipelines, they say, are a threat
to these rights that the Wet’suwet’en people value.

Neither the elected chief and band councils
that support the pipeline, nor the federal or provincial governments,
nor Coastal GasLink ever obtained the consent of the Wet’suwet’en
hereditary chiefs and their supporters. And that’s what’s at issue here.

January 11, 2020

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UN Human Rights Panel Calls for Pause on Trans Mountain, Site C, Coastal GasLink – The Energy Mix

In response, the federal Crown corporation building Trans Mountain said its work is “approved and moving forward with construction safely and in respect of communities,” the news agency writes. BC Hydro traced its consultations with First Nations on Site C back to 2007 and said it had reached agreements with most of them, producing $230 million in procurement opportunities for Indigenous businesses and 400 jobs. The federal government, the RCMP, and Coastal GasLink did not respond to CP’s request for comment.

In a statement, Alberta Energy Minister and former pipeline executive Sonya Savage cast the UN as “an unelected, unaccountable body that has no business criticizing Canada’s energy megaprojects.”

January 9, 2020

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