Video: Unis’tot’en Action Camp – Report from the struggle to stop the Pacific...
Note: This summer we have seen an upsurge in action camps from Vermont to Appalachia, Pennsylvania to British Columbia. As governments fail to stop fossil fuel extraction, it is time to turn up the...
View ArticleBritish Columbia port authority approves terminal for wood pellet exports
Note: Promoted as part of a transition to a “bioeconomy” which would replace fossil fuels with energy and products derived from living forests and agricultural land, large-scale biomass is unleashing...
View ArticleCanadian government ‘knew of plans to dump iron into the Pacific’
By Martin Lukacs, October 17, 2012. Source: The Guardian Note: It was bad enough when news broke earlier this week that an American “entrepreneur” had illegally dumped iron into the Pacific, in hopes...
View ArticleRally draws thousands to B.C. legislature to oppose Northern Gateway pipeline
October 22, 2012. Source: The Globe and Mail Thousands of protesters who packed the front lawn of the British Columbia legislature yelled a thunderous “Yes” when asked if they were willing to lay down...
View Article“Community corridors” resist the Pacific Trails pipeline
By Julien Delacroix, November 8 2012. Source: Earth First! Newswire The other day I was watching videos of the Tar Sands Blockade where environmentalists were resisting the path of the Keystone XL...
View ArticleThe uncertainty of pipelines in unceded lands
By John Ahni Schertow, November 20 2012. Source: Intercontinental Cry On the Beautiful Widzin Kwa (Morice River): The Grassroots Wet’suwet’en people are winning the physical and awareness campaigns to...
View ArticleSurveyors evicted by B.C. First Nation
Note: You can read more about the Wet’suwet’en struggle to stop the Pacific Trails Pipeline here. -The GJEP Team November 21, 2012. Source: CBC Members of a First Nation in northern B.C. have evicted...
View ArticleVancouver: Enbridge panel to be greeted with loud demonstration
Source: Rising Tide Vancouver Coast Salish Territories When the Enbridge pipeline joint Environmental Assessment and Energy Board hearings open in Vancouver on January 14th they will be greeted by...
View ArticleProtesters arrested after storming pipeline hearings in Vancouver
Note: For video coverage, follow the CTV News link below. –The GJEP Team January 15 2013. Source: CTV News Five people have been arrested in Vancouver after protesters burst into hearings on the...
View ArticleAlberta aboriginals oppose B.C. Hydro’s Site C dam project; say needs more study
By Bob Weber, March 3 2013. Source: Edmonton Journal EDMONTON – Alberta aboriginals are lining up against an energy project deemed crucial to the B.C. economy. At least six bands in the northern part...
View ArticleUninvited and unwelcome: First Nation asks Enbridge to leave territory...
May 16 2013. Source: Market Wired Gitga’at First Nation reminds Enbridge that Northern Gateway pipeline and oil tanker project is not welcome in Gitga’at territory HARTLEY BAY, BRITISH COLUMBIA - The...
View Article“My generation has stood up and said, ‘No more’”
By Aaron Lakoff, 12 August 2013. Source: Vancouver Media Coop From July 10th to 14th, roughly 200 Indigenous and non-Indigenous people gathered in unceded Wet’suwet’en territory in central British...
View ArticleRising Tide ‘fracks’ B.C. premier’s front lawn
November 3, 2013. Source: Rising Tide Vancouver Coast Salish Territories On Sunday morning, activists with Rising Tide-Vancouver Coast Salish Territories set up a 15-foot mock fracking rig on Premier...
View ArticleKinder Morgan pipeline threatens ecology and economy of Salish tribes
February 13, 2014. Source: Earth Justice Opposition to Kinder Morgan’s TransMountain proposed pipeline project ramped up today as Coast Salish peoples on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border vowed to...
View ArticleVictory! First Nations celebrate federal rejection of New Prosperity mine...
February 27, 2014. Source: Intercontinental Cry Tsilhqot’in Territory, BC: Yesterday’s federal decision to reject the New Prosperity Gold-Copper mine proposal was welcomed by Tsilhqot’in Chiefs, AFN...
View ArticleKwakiutl First Nation continues protest near Port Hardy, British Columbia
March 20, 2014. Source: Intercontinental Cry TSAXIS, KWAKIUTL TERRITORY (PORT HARDY), BC – Kwakiutl protest reaches a fifty-day milestone, as Island Timberlands, Canada and BC remain silent on Treaty...
View ArticleWet’suwet’en hereditary chief protests Pacific Trail Pipelines project
By Carlito Pablo, April 2, 2014. Source: Straight.com SINCE 2008, WARNER Naziel has gone by his traditional name, Toghestiy. It means “man who sits beside the water”. As one of the hereditary chiefs of...
View ArticleBC preparing injunction against Unist’ot’en pipeline resistance camp
By John Ahni Schertow, April 14, 2014. Source: Intercontinental Cry Leaders of the Unist’ot’en resistance camp held a press conference in Vancouver on April 7, 2014 in response to leaked information...
View ArticleWithout license: Many B.C. First Nations still oppose liquified natural gas
Note: Yesterday, members of Rising Tide Vancouver-Coast Salish Territories disrupted the BC LNG summit and dropped a banner stating “BC LNG: Invest at your own RISK.” Photos here. -The GJEP Team By...
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