Video still: RCMP pull over Molly Wickham, Cody Merriman and their children on Wet’suwet’en territory, June 5, 2022. Gidimt’en Checkpoint has noted the ongoing harassment by the RCMP of Wet’suwet’en land defenders opposed to the Coastal GasLink fracked gas pipeline being built on their territory without free, prior and informed Read more…
On June 3, Gidimt’en Checkpoint tweeted: Haudenosaunee land defender Layla Staats has also posted this short Instagram video. CBC reports: “The B.C. [British Columbia] Prosecution Service plans to prosecute 15 [land defenders] for criminal contempt for allegedly defying an injunction protecting construction of a controversial pipeline in northern British Columbia.” Read more…
“…We are conducting patrols to ensure criminal code offences are not being committed and that individuals with court-ordered conditions are not breaching those conditions”. So begins each of the RCMP’s visits to a pipeline resistance camp on Gidimt’en territory. Today, the script has already been read three times, with 6-8 Read more…
Photo: Hereditary Chief Na’Moks addresses the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York, April 22, 2019. On March 14, Postmedia reported that British Columbia’s Minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation, Murray Rankin, and the federal Minister of Crown-Indigenous relations, Marc Miller, have requested to meet with Wet’suwet’en Read more…
On March 8, Gidimt’en Checkpoint tweeted: “RCMP have been entering our village several times each day to harass, surveil, intimidate, and threaten our guests. When police came to her home at 4am, Auntie Janet confronted the officers and kicked them out of our camp.” This Gidimt’en Access Checkpoint video posted Read more…
Last week, Gidimt’en Checkpoint noted: “Over thirty water protectors are appearing in BC Supreme Court in Prince George on Monday February 14 after the RCMP invasion on Wet’suwet’en territory [on November 18 and 19] 2021.” In this video update, Gidimt’en land defender Sleydo’ reports: “Today we were supposed to be able Read more…
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…