Photo by Arvin Singh. Journalist Brandi Morin is present on Wet’suwet’en territory in northern British Columbia reporting for Ricochet media on Coastal GasLink (CGL) preparing to drill under Wedzin Kwa (Morice River). Yesterday she tweeted: “CGL will use micro-tunneling hydraulic drilling to put their LNG pipeline through. CGL says it’s Read more…
Photo: In January 2020, Indigenous Otomi peoples in the town of San Pablito called for the TC Energy Tuxpan-Tula pipeline to be cancelled because it would cross the sacred hills of the Pahuatlán region in the state of Puebla. Calgary-based TC Energy is both the largest foreign investor in Mexico Read more…
On January 4, this Gidimt’en Checkpoint media release highlighted: “Two weeks after Wet’suwet’en water protectors evicted Coastal GasLink [CGL] workers and occupied a key pipeline drill site, water protectors executed a strategic retreat to avoid arrest and violence at the hands of dozens of militarized RCMP.” It adds: “Water protectors Read more…
Photo: Earlier this month, Itzam Pineda from the Autonomous University of Mexico City (UACM) presented the report to members of the Regional Council of Indigenous Peoples in Defense of the Territories of Puebla-Hidalgo. Calgary-based TC Energy has been implicated in the violation of Indigenous rights in Canada (notably with its Read more…
Photo by Dan Mesec/ The Tyee. On Sunday December 19, Gidimt’en Checkpoint tweeted: Now, The Tyee reports: “One month after dozens of arrests, supporters of Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs have reoccupied a worksite on the Coastal GasLink pipeline route in the nation’s territory. The group announced Sunday they had returned to Read more…
On December 19, Gidimt’en Checkpoint tweeted: “BREAKING – Gidimt’en Clan Evicts CGL from Drill Site; Re-Occupies Coyote Camp.” Their series of tweets then adds: “Early Sunday, Gidimt’en land defenders evicted Coastal Gaslink workers and re-established control of Coyote Camp, the site where Coastal Gaslink plans to drill beneath Wet’suwet’en headwaters. Read more…
Wet’suwet’en land defenders Eve Saint and Jocey Alec were recently interviewed by rabble.ca contributor and PBI-Canada director Brent Patterson. To listen to that interview, click the play button below. To listen to the fuller rabble radio podcast – hosted by Chelsea Nash and produced by Breanne Doyle – click here. Read more…
Gidimt’en Checkpoint photo. On December 10, Brett Forester of APTN News reported: “The British Columbia government authorized emergency RCMP redeployment to Wet’suwet’en territory on the same day [Monday November 15] catastrophic floods ravaged critical infrastructure and deluged communities elsewhere in the province.” The article adds: “Solicitor General Mike Farnworth approved Read more…
Photo by Amber Bracken. In 2020, there were at least 227 lethal attacks – an average of more than four a week – against land and environmental rights defenders around the world. Over a third of all the attacks were against Indigenous land defenders. Last month, a two-day militarized RCMP Read more…
Instagram photo of Eve Saint and Jocey Alec. Wet’suwet’en land defenders Eve Saint and Jocelyn (Jocey) Alec are sisters who have been criminalized for defending their sovereign territory in northern British Columbia from a fracked gas pipeline being built on those lands without consent. Eve was arrested by the RCMP Read more…