Clashes between First Nations and resource companies are erupting in northern BC. The Sacred Headwaters conflict between Royal Dutch Shell and the Tahltan is on the verge of igniting; meanwhile, in an adjacent valley a blockade has already occurred. In a reversal of the stereotype, well-known Gitxsan activist Yvonne Lattie led a cavalry of horses […]
Two years after Shell was forced to shut down their coalbed methane drilling operations in the Sacred Headwaters (Klappan), it looks like another face-off is brewing. Royal Dutch Shell is signaling it may move bulldozers into the region as early as August 20th. Photo: Tahltan people evict Shell in 2005 In 2005, the Tahltan stood […]
Driving along the Barnet highway as a Branch of the Kinder Morgan Transmountain Pipeline ruptured must have provided for a spectacular site. A geyser of oil emerging from a suburban roadside and coating everything in black. Gardens, lawns , houses, back yard swings sets, everything, coated black. The drivers, among the first to be affected […]
Following the frustrated pullout of one of its biggest customers, Enbridge Inc.’s Gateway project is facing it’s 7th major delay since the twin pipelines, slated to open up the Asia-Pacific market to Alberta’s tar sands crude, were proposed. Indications were that PetroChina, a subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corp., was to have bought up to […]
NRCan’s Minister ‘truth’ veers farther from the facts. After months of silence Gary Lunn has finally come out and stated publicly “Canada’s New Government’s” position on the moratorium on tanker traffic through the Dixon Entrance, Hecate Strait and Queen Charlotte Sound. According to the Tories it never existed. Those reams of official federal government documents, […]
The following is an expanded version of a Letter to the Editor sent to the Victoria Times Colonist responding to an article on tankers. The gloves have come off. After 18 months of obfuscations and dodging phonecalls from reporters and constituents, Minster Gary Lunn, the MP from Saanich-Gulf Islands has finally stated publicly what was […]
The big hush around oil tankers Recent breaches to the 1972 moratorium that bans oil tanker traffic in the inside coastal waters of BC’s north coast are finally getting some attention. Papers from the Province to the Globe and Mail have reported the story as have numerous radio stations. While there is now a buzz […]
Environmental and Human rights concerns raised in Royal Dutch Shell’stakeover of Shell Canada The wave offoreign takeovers of Canadian corporations is setting off alarm bells in Ottawa and in corporate boardrooms across Canada. Thefeeding frenzy has already consumed Canadian mining giants such as INCO andFalconbridge, steelmaker Dofasco and even iconic brewer Labatt. Alcan and BCEare […]
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