Canada - West

New headaches for tar sands pipeline proponents as oil fouls Vancouver harbor

Roger Annis, A Socialist in Canada, April 11, 2015
Vancouver spill

A bad turn of events for the local environment and for some of the oil barons targeting their entire planet in their climate-wrecking plans. That’s an apt summary of the oil spill that has fouled the beaches and harbour of Vancouver BC beginning on April 8.

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Grand Chief Stewart Phillip on Supreme Court ruling in Tsilhqot'in title case

Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, rabble.ca, July 21, 2014

The struggle to defend Tsilhqot'in territory goes back to1864 when six chiefs were hanged for resisting a road being built to the gold fields in Barkerville. This Supreme Court decision is the first to acknowledge Aboriginal title on the ground. It will change the nature of treaty negotiations and affect the future of development projects all across B.C. Grand Chief Stewart Phillip is president of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs. He speaks with Redeye host Lorraine Chisholm.

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Northern Gateway and class politics in British Columbia: Ready for war?

Brad Hornick, rabble.ca, June 19, 2014

But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence… illusion only is sacred, truth profane. Nay sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness. Feuerbach, Preface to the second edition of The Essence of Christianity

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"It's war" declares Vancouver rally after federal gov't gives ok to Northern Gateway tar sands pipeline

Mychaylo Prystupa, Vancouver Observer, June 18, 2014

“It’s official - the war is on!" said Grand Chief Stewart Phillips with a smile, to the cheers of a thousand-plus people. Street dances ensued.

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Joint news release: First Nations going to court united against Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Project

Union of BC Indian Chiefs, UBCIC, June 17, 2014

Federal and provincial governments disregard Indigenous Title and Rights. Today, we unequivocally reject the Harper Government’s decision to approve the Enbridge Northern Gateway tanker and pipelines project and First Nations will immediately go to court to vigorously pursue all lawful means to stop the Enbridge project. We have governed our lands, in accordance to our Indigenous laws, since time immemorial. Our inherent Title and Rights and our legal authority over our respective territories have never been surrendered.

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