Join us and West Coast Climate Action Network as we meet with Rueben George, and Chiefs Smogelgem and Roland Willson to learn about their resistance in the face of TMX, Coastal GasLink, and Site C-Dam.
Sifting through the woefully inadequate “CleanBC Roadmap to 2030” released ahead of COP26, it appears that B.C.’s plan is to force through infrastructure for long-term fossil fuel projects now, over the objections of First Nations and in violation of treaty and Aboriginal rights.
In the path of this misguided plan stand Indigenous Nations. In Wet’suwet’en territory, hereditary chiefs from Gidimt’en clan have set up a blockade to prevent drilling beneath a salmon-bearing river. In Treaty 8 territory, as BC Hydro contractors attempt to mud-wrestle the Peace River into diversion channels for Site C, West Moberly First Nations is taking to the courts to argue that the project is being built on a foundation of broken treaty promises. Nations across B.C. continue to resist the Trans Mountain pipeline and tankers project, a carbon bomb about which Tsleil-Waututh Sacred Trust’s Rueben George remarks, “If we are serious about climate action and reconciliation in Canada, construction on TMX must stop now.”
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