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Great video showing the work of the Indigenous People of Canada trying (and succeeding so far) of blocking the pipelines from going through their territories (one of the conditions the Canadian government gave the pipeline companies was they had to consult with the Wet'suwet'en Nation. The Wet'suwet'en Nation refuse to speak with them).
Octafish
(55,745 posts)by Abby Zimet, staff writer
Common Dreams, Nov. 8, 2014
With a newly elected Congress gearing up to pass Keystone, the inspiring story of the Unist'ot'en Camp, an indigenous resistance community established in northwest Canada to protect sovereign Wet'suwet'en territory and blockade up to 10 additional proposed pipelines aimed at expanding Alberta Tar Sands operations. The Unistoten Clan, which has families living in cabins and traditional structures in the direct pathway of the Northern Gateway and Pacific Trails fracking lines, argues that "since time immemorial" they have governed Wetsuweten lands, which thus remain unceded and not subject to Canadian law "or other impositions of colonial occupation" - an argument that has been sustained in court cases, and bolstered by the camp's recent peaceable ejection of a drilling crew..
Camp leaders note that delays caused by their and other grassroots blockades are said to be costing Kinder Morgan and other companies up to $88 million a month, one reason the companies have filed multi-million suits against camp leaders that are still pending. But with Wetsuweten law requiring consent from the traditional indigenous governments in territories where indigenous people probably outnumber "settler people," opponents appear to have the law on their side. "Our Chiefs have said no to these projects, and no means no," says Freda Huson, Unistoten Clan member and camp spokesperson. "You can't continue to bulldoze over our people. Our lands. Our final say."
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http://www.commondreams.org/further/2014/11/08/way-warrior-how-stop-pipeline
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)postulater
(5,075 posts)Much success to them.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)If the rest of the continents' peoples are lucky, they'll learn.