Category: Climate Chaos

Shell PR event shut down in Oxford

the Shell booth

 

the Shell booth

 

23rd Octo­ber Shell set up a fair­ly large struc­ture in Broad St yes­ter­day, an plush enclosed unit with mez­za­nine floor and car­pet, to plug their lat­est PR/recruitment scheme. They were plan­ning to be there from 10am until 6pm, but things did­n’t go accord­ing to their plans.

A protest had been called, and around lunchtime peo­ple start­ed arriv­ing and giv­ing out leaflets. Ear­li­er the Shell PR peo­ple had been roam­ing around the street chat­ting to peo­ple and giv­ing out glossy bull­shit, but once pro­test­ers arrived they seemed to with­draw a bit more into their self-built shell. One per­son heck­led them enthu­si­as­ti­cal­ly.

Then, about 12:45pm, anoth­er group arrived, went inside, grabbed hand­fuls of Shell pro­pa­gan­da, poured black oily stuff every­where, and wrote anti-Shell slo­gans on their white­board (in per­ma­nent mark­er, appar­ent­ly — it looked like they weren’t able to remove it!). I heard that the oily stuff even went all over their com­put­er giz­mos, pre­sum­ably caus­ing quite a bit of dam­age.

Unfor­tu­nate­ly as they were leav­ing they got chased and grabbed by secu­ri­ty, and despite a strug­gle were hand­ed over to the cops and arrest­ed. Mean­while Shell had appar­ent­ly had enough, as not long after­wards they packed up and went home.

The 3 arrest­ed peo­ple were released about 11 hours lat­er — all 3 had been giv­en cau­tions for crim­i­nal dam­age, and 2 also had fixed penal­ty notices (£90 each) for obstruc­tion. They all seemed fine with this out­come.

Here’s an arti­cle from some of the peo­ple that organ­ised the leaflet­ting ses­sion, explain­ing why they were there:
 http://tarfreetowns.org/news/oxford-is-saying-no-to-shells-whitewashing/
…it has some decent stuff in it but does­n’t men­tion the long­stand­ing strug­gle in Ross­port, Ire­land against Shel­l’s occu­pa­tion there, which for me per­son­al­ly was near the top of my mind when I went along to the protest:
http://shelltosea.com/

Shell have been tar­get­ed plen­ty of times before when try­ing to run grad­u­ate recruit­ment events in Oxford: http://oxford.indymedia.org.uk/2009/10/440301.html  http://oxford.indymedia.org.uk/2010/03/447286.html
(as have oth­er oil com­pa­nies), but this was the first time I know of that they’d had the gall to do an event on the street (usu­al­ly they are in some kind of plush hotel).

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Solidarity Protests and Blockades Ignite Across Turtle Island in Solidarity with Mi’kmaq

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photo of yesterday's solidarity blockade at Esgenoopetitj18th Octo­ber

The RCMP retreat from the Mi’qmak block­ade has not stemmed the out­rage against the Cana­di­an government’s ruth­less attack yes­ter­day on the peace­ful Mi’qmak block­ade. As South­west­ern Ener­gy attempts to extend the injunc­tion against the Mi’qmak, sol­i­dar­i­ty protests are spread­ing through­out Tur­tle Island.

Numer­ous infra­struc­ture points through­out Cana­da were snarled by indige­nous block­ades in the imme­di­ate after­math of the state inva­sion of the Mi’qmak. At least 30 sol­i­dar­i­ty protests are also being under­tak­en accord­ing to Idle No More.

Accord­ing to San­ta Cruz Indige­nous Sol­i­dar­i­ty, by 3pm yes­ter­day six peace­ful high­way and bridge block­ades had been errect­ed at Roads in Burnt Church (NB), Tobique (NB), Esgenoopetitj (NB), Hamil­ton (ON) and Six Nations (ON).

The Lis­tuguj Mi’Gmaq built a tipi on the Van­Horne bridge, block­ing traf­fic on the Que­bec-New Brunswick bor­der.

In Win­nipeg, pro­tes­tors tied up traf­fic at the inter­sec­tion of Portage and Main, burn­ing a Cana­di­an flag to protest against the Crown’s his­toric betray­al of First Nations treaty rights. Police appeared to be clear­ing the way for the march, halt­ing traf­fic at numer­ous points.

In Mon­tre­al, mem­bers of the Mohawk nation gath­ered to show sol­i­dar­i­ty. Dur­ing the RCMP crack­down on the Mi’kmaq Block­ade, many observers com­pared the state’s repres­sive response to the 1990 Oka Cri­sis, which saw the Mohawk resist devel­op­ment on their lands for months.

New York, Wash­ing­ton, DC, and numer­ous oth­er cities across the US have also seen sol­i­dar­i­ty demon­stra­tions.

There is a call for sol­i­dar­i­ty for today and tomor­row, which hap­pens to be an inter­na­tion­al day of action against frack­ing (the #glob­al­frack­down http://www.globalfrackdown.org/). The day of sol­i­dar­i­ty will use the hash tag #INDIGENIZE, with orga­niz­ers send­ing report backs and media updates to Reclaim­TurtleIs­land [at] gmail [dot] com.

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Mi’kmaq Blockade Update: RCMP Has Withdrawn, Resistance Continues

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After a day of clash­es yes­ter­day, the police with­drew around 7pm to cheers from the crowd.

40 peo­ple are report­ed arrest­ed and 5 police vehi­cles were burned.

No One Is Ille­gal reports these lists of sol­i­dar­i­ty actions – Google Docs

Pow­er­shift Cana­da

Yes­ter­day saw many emer­gency sol­i­dar­i­ty actions includ­ing a major through­way being shut­down in Win­nipeg.

Today is a day of action called for by the Mi’kmaq ear­li­er this week.

Tomor­row is anoth­er day of action against frack­ing orga­nized under the ban­ner Glob­al Frack­down.

 

There has also been a request that sup­port­ers call the pre­mier of New Brunswick to express con­cerns over the RCMP’s actions against the Mi’kmaq – .New Brunswick Pre­mier – David Alward
Email: premier@gnb.ca
Phone: (506) 453‑2144
Fax : (506) 453‑7407

Charges for those arrest­ed includ­ed firearms offences, utter­ing threats, intim­i­da­tion, mis­chief and for refus­ing to abide by a court injunc­tion.

The pro­test­ers arrest­ed were tak­en to three dif­fer­ent com­mu­ni­ties where they are expect­ed in court Fri­day morn­ing around 9:30 to face charges. Police spread the arrest­ed pro­test­ers out in an effort to pre­vent the cour­t­hous­es being over­whelmed by protest sup­port­ers dur­ing the arraign­ments.GAMW1AP

Chief Aaron Sock was among those arrest­ed in the clash. He and a few of his band coun­cil mem­bers were released a few hours after their arrests.

Sock is the leader of the band that has been blockad­ing Route 134 near Rex­ton since Sept. 30.

On Oct. 1, Sock issued an evic­tion notice to SWN Resources of Cana­da. His band and his band coun­cil planned to pass a res­o­lu­tion pre­vent­ing the gov­ern­ment and shale gas com­pa­nies from con­tin­u­ing their work by reclaim­ing all unoc­cu­pied reserve land and giv­ing it back to First Nations.ZNAmSQ1

The road between Rex­ton and High­way 11 has been the scene of the protest, involv­ing a coali­tion of natives and non-natives opposed to shale gas explo­ration.

Pro­test­ers moved into the area on Sept. 30, ini­tial­ly estab­lish­ing a bar­ri­cade to the stag­ing area used by SWN Resources Cana­da to park its explo­ration vehi­cles and equip­ment.

The protest pro­gressed to the point where bar­ri­cades were also estab­lished on the road, pre­vent­ing traf­fic from going through.

SWN Resources went to the Court of Queen’s Bench and suc­cess­ful­ly sought an injunc­tion to end the protest.

Dur­ing a hear­ing, court was told SWN Resources is los­ing $60,000 every day its seis­mic explo­ration trucks remain block­ad­ed in the com­pound off Route 134.

Let's watch that shit again #elsipogtog #mikmaqblockade ... on Twitpic

Video by the Stim­u­la­tor (click for video) and @stimulator on for up to the minute updates

 

Romanian Villagers 3‑day Occupation Forces Chevron to Stop Fracking

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US ener­gy giant Chevron said Thurs­day it has sus­pend­ed shale gas test drilling in north­east­ern Roma­nia after three days of protests by vil­lagers opposed to frack­ing.

“Chevron can today con­firm it has sus­pend­ed activ­i­ties in Silis­tea, Pungesti com­mune, Vaslui coun­ty,” a press release read.

The move comes a day after Roman­ian police clashed with vil­lagers who have occu­pied since Mon­day a field to pre­vent Chevron from drilling its first explo­ration well.

The pro­test­ers are afraid of the envi­ron­men­tal and health impact of the high­ly con­tro­ver­sial drilling method used to unlock shale gas, called hydraulic frac­tur­ing or ‘frack­ing’.

The tech­nique con­sists of pump­ing water and chem­i­cals at high pres­sure into deep rock for­ma­tions to free oil and gas, with envi­ron­men­tal­ists warn­ing the process may con­t­a­m­i­nate ground water and even cause small earth­quakes.

Chevron has per­mits to explore for shale gas in three vil­lages in this impov­er­ished part of north­east­ern Roma­nia as well as on Romania’s Black Sea coast.

“Our pri­or­i­ty is to con­duct … activ­i­ties in a safe and envi­ron­men­tal­ly respon­si­ble man­ner con­sis­tent with the per­mits under which we oper­ate,” the group said Wednes­day.

No Dash for Gas Protestors Have Sentences Quashed

Activists occupy 300ft chimneys at the West Burton power station - video

Activists occupy 300ft chimneys at the West Burton power station - video

18th Octo­ber from No Dash for Gas

Six activists out of 21 who shut down EDF’s West Bur­ton Gas pow­er sta­tion last year walked free from Not­ting­ham Crown Court today, tak­ing the total num­ber of those giv­en con­di­tion­al dis­charges to eleven. Lawrence Carter, Han­nah Dav­ey, Alis­tair Can­nell, Anea­ka Kel­lay, Ewa Jasiewicz, and David Shake­speare had their sen­tences for Aggra­vat­ed Tres­pass over­turned on appeal.

All six had been sen­tenced to 150 hours com­mu­ni­ty ser­vice. None had any pre­vi­ous con­vic­tions.

Five pro­test­ers received con­di­tion­al dis­charges in June when the 21 ini­tial­ly appeared at Not­ting­ham Mag­is­trates Court.

The con­vic­tions had been for tak­ing part in the UK’s longest ever pow­er sta­tion protest which last­ed eight days from Octo­ber 29th – Novem­ber 5th of last year.

The pro­test­ers, all from the group No Dash for Gas, had camped up two 80 meter Chim­ney flues for a week in protest at gov­ern­ment plans to build up to 40 new gas pow­er sta­tions and make the UK reliant on gas for the next 30 years.

The group argues that the ‘dash for gas’ which also includes drilling for shale gas will exac­er­bate cli­mate change, crash the UK’s legal oblig­a­tions to cut car­bon emis­sions and keep mil­lions stuck in crip­pling fuel pover­ty.

EDF sued the group for £5million dam­ages but were forced to drop their claim after wide­spread protest, loss of cus­tomers and a suc­cess­ful social media cam­paign which saw 64,000 peo­ple sign a peti­tion in sup­port of the group in less than four weeks.

The remain­ing ten pro­test­ers from the group chose not to pur­sue an appeal on legal advice.

Ewa Jasiewicz said ‘This is yet anoth­er vic­to­ry for civ­il dis­obe­di­ence in defence of our cli­mate and against fuel pover­ty. As ener­gy com­pa­nies ramp up their prices and mil­lions turn to food­banks and suf­fer cold homes and win­ter deaths, we believe anoth­er ener­gy sys­tem is pos­si­ble – one that val­ues peo­ple and plan­et over prof­it. One that is demo­c­ra­t­i­cal­ly con­trolled and based on sus­tain­able, clean ener­gy. Both are not just pos­si­ble, they are vital if we want to avoid cat­a­stroph­ic cli­mate change and ensure not just real ener­gy secu­ri­ty, but social and eco­nom­ic secu­ri­ty for all’.

David Shake­speare said ‘Direct action is a vital part of cre­at­ing social change – this is why, after peti­tions, let­ters and all oth­er means failed, we took a stand and shut down the first of up to 40 new gas pow­er sta­tions last year. Whether it’s pro­tect­ing the Arc­tic, camp­ing against Frack­ing or occu­py­ing pow­er sta­tions, all these acts of prin­ci­pled protest are part of a move­ment that is act­ing to safe­guard the future of gen­er­a­tions to come. We need to keep the pres­sure up until gov­ern­ments act in the pub­lic inter­est’.

UPDATE: Full Invasion Force Arrives at Mi’kmaq Blockade

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Screen Shot 2013-10-17 at 12.44.31 PM17th Octo­ber  700 RCMP are cur­rent­ly report­ed at the scene of the Mi’kmaq block­ade with an armored per­son­nel car­ri­er. Talks have failed. Snipers with the RCMP have been seen point­ing their scopes at groups of young sup­port­ers, draw­ing intense crit­i­cism from observers. In a state­ment, one RCMP offi­cer declared, “the Crown land belongs to the gov­ern­ment, not fuck­ing Natives,” reveal­ing the sys­temic con­tempt for treaty rights with First Nations and inter­na­tion­al agree­ments. RCMP are now lined up with riot shields, as the stand­off con­tin­ues to main­tain the block­ade that is cur­rent­ly keep­ing “thumper trucks” from destroy­ing the land in Mik’maq ter­ri­to­ry. Chief Aaron Sock of the Elsli­pog­tog has been released by the RCMP after being arrest­ed while blockad­ing the com­pound of Texas-based SWN Resources. How­ev­er, over 40 Mi’kmaq war­riors remain in cus­tody, as the RCMP con­tin­ue to use pep­per spray, tear gas, and rub­ber bul­lets in attempts to break up the block­ade. 1379310_242702739212593_1480884763_n Cana­da is clear­ly in vio­la­tion of inter­na­tion­al treaties with this war-like act against a peace­ful nation engaged in law­ful direct action against the theft and destruc­tion of their land by a multi­na­tion­al ener­gy com­pa­ny. Accord­ing to Sub­me­dia, “Dur­ing my short stay [at the two-week-strong block­ade] I’ve wit­nessed the co-oper­a­tion between natives and set­tlers, a part­ner­ship that has kept this block­ade ful­ly stocked and oper­a­tional. Food, wood, hot cof­fee, tents and oth­er sup­plies keep stream­ing all the while SWN berates the police in the media for not arrest­ing the pro­test­ers.” In retal­i­a­tion against the inva­sion, which comes one day before an inter­na­tion­al day of sol­i­dar­i­ty with the Mi’kmaq Block­ade and two days away from a meet­ing set to con­tin­ue peace talks, unknown per­sons have set six RCMP vehi­cles ablaze, hurled stones at the police line, and con­fis­cat­ed frack­ing equip­ment. In relat­ed news, SWN stock hit a sharp decline today on the New York Stock Exchange. As of this time, the RCMP is not let­ting media in. How­ev­er, rein­force­ments con­tin­ue to swell the num­bers of sup­port­ers at the block­ade. The Mi’kmaq have issued a call for con­tin­ued inter­na­tion­al sol­i­dar­i­ty, and for increased sup­port for the block­ade.

Mi’kmaq Resist! 6 RCMP Cars Torched, Fracking Equipment Confiscated

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Pho­to by Ossie Michel

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Pho­to by Ossie Miche­lin

17th Octo­ber

In retal­i­a­tion against a vio­lent police raid this morn­ing on a peace­ful First Nations block­ade, Mi’kmaq war­riors and sup­port­ers have fought back.

The RCMP appear to have arrest­ed jour­nal­ist Miles Howe, who has been report­ing on the Elsi­pog­tog strug­gle against the ille­gal gas grab on indige­nous lands. More than 200 RCMP are par­tic­i­pat­ing in the raid, includ­ing snipers in fatigues. Ambu­lances have been pre­vent­ed from treat­ing pro­tes­tors wound­ed by pep­per spray, plas­tic bul­lets, and gen­er­al bru­tal­i­ty.

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As of the time of writ­ing this, six RCMP vehi­cles have been torched, and melees of stones have been hurled in response to tear gas, plas­tic bul­lets, and pep­per spray from the RCMP (update: it is being claimed that the fires were start­ed by an agent provo­ca­teur). Mi’kmaq allies have also con­fis­cat­ed frack­ing equip­ment in con­tin­ued efforts to main­tain the block­ade against the gas com­pa­ny.

Block­ades are report­ed­ly spring­ing up else­where through­out Mi’kmaq ter­ri­to­ry, as news has spread of police bru­tal­i­ty and unnec­es­sary use of force against peace­ful pro­tes­tors, includ­ing elders and chil­dren. Idle No More’s twit­ter account has called on all the Sacred Fires of the World, and sol­i­dar­i­ty demos in DC, NYC, Van­cou­ver, BC, and Win­nipeg have already been announced.

The Mi’kmaq Block­ade has cost the gas com­pa­ny an esti­mat­ed $50,000 per day, and has been ongo­ing for two weeks. Today’s crack down is a direct betray­al of a peace process ongo­ing between the Elsi­pog­tog and the New Brunswick pre­mier, and a vio­la­tion of the rights of Indige­nous Peo­ples as accord­ing to the UN. The gov­ern­ment of Cana­da has insti­gat­ed a major diplo­mat­ic inci­dent, and glob­al sol­i­dar­i­ty is com­ing in from coun­tries around the world.

The whole world is watch­ing!

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Tense Standoff at Elsipogtog Blockade, Molotovs Thrown

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Image from Twitter17th Octo­ber from Earth First! Newswire

A tense stand off is ongo­ing between 200 RCMP, Mi’kmaq block­aders, and about 200 sup­port­ers. Accord­ing to the Stim­u­la­tor, the chief and trib­al coun­cil per­son­al­ly block­ad­ed gas com­pa­ny trucks behind bar­ri­cades. Pro­test­ers have hurled rocks and a cor­po­rate news tri­pod at the RCMP. At the moment, RCMP are mak­ing mass arrests, SWN vehi­cles appear to be rolling out of the com­pound, and six RCMP vehi­cles have been set ablaze.

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Molo­tov cock­tails were thrown from the woods ear­li­er this morn­ing in defense of the land and peo­ples. The RCMP, some with long rifles, entered the woods. Shots were fired, and scream­ing was heard. There is an uncon­firmed report that activist Steven Gould has been shot. (UPDATE: We are now receiv­ing reports that less-than-lethal rounds have been fired at sup­port­ers, as well as tear gas. Pep­per spray has been deployed against sup­port­ers attempt­ing to get through police lines. The RCMP is cur­rent­ly unload­ing riot gear.)

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Sup­port­ers broke through police lines to join the Mi’kmaq (video here). The RCMP have erect­ed a bar­ri­er on one side of the block­ade, and appear to have the block­ade sur­round­ed. More peo­ple are com­ing to sup­port with food and water.

Sol­i­dar­i­ty block­ades have sprung up else­where in the Mi’kmaq ter­ri­to­ry. There are sol­i­dar­i­ty actions planned at the Cana­di­an Con­sulate in NYC at 5pm and the Cana­di­an Embassy in DC, as well as Van­cou­ver and Win­nipeg.

As of time of writ­ing, arrests have been made, and there is at least one report of police bru­tal­i­ty against Mi’kmaq war­rior Suzanne Patles, an Ilnu woman and mem­ber of the Mi’kmaq War­rior Soci­ety. (UPDATE: It appears that mass arrests are cur­rent­ly being made.)

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Accord­ing to the New Brunswick, Anglo­phone North School Dis­trict, the RCMP did not noti­fy them of the raid as is legal­ly required. Schools are cur­rent­ly on lock-down.

The Mi’kmaq are blockad­ing High­way 132 near Rex­ton to halt the activ­i­ty on the com­pound belong­ing to a gas com­pa­ny, SWN Resources Cana­da. SWN Resources has been ille­gal­ly try­ing to frack the land of the Elsi­pog­tog for months, and the tribe has been joined by oth­er tribes of the Mi’kmaq and Wabana­ki Con­fed­er­a­cy peo­ples in attempts to take direct action against the gas com­pa­ny.

epsilogtogfirecarAccord­ing to Ellen Gabriel of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation, “Forcible removal of Mi’kmaq on their tra­di­tion­al lands, [is] an ille­gal act by Police who should not enforce.”

Last week, a Cana­di­an judge issued an injunc­tion against the block­ade, but the Elsi­pog­tog have sought peace­ful nego­ti­a­tion. Today’s raid must be seen as a pre­emp­tive action to pre­vent the Octo­ber 18 day of action from tak­ing place, which was called by the Mi’kmaq War­riors Soci­ety for phys­i­cal sup­port of the SWN block­ade.

The demands of the War­riors Soci­ety are the fol­low­ing:

  1. Pro­duce all Bills of Sales, Sold, Ced­ed, Grant­ed and Extin­guished Lands for New Brunswick.
  2. Pro­duce doc­u­ments prov­ing Cabot’s Doc­trine of Dis­cov­ery.
  3. Pro­duce the Treaty of Peace and Friend­ship 1686.
  4. Pro­duce Treaty of Fort Howe 1768.
  5. Pro­duce con­sents for Loy­al­ists to land in Nova Scotia/New Brunswick.
  6. Pro­duce records of Town­ships cre­at­ed and con­sents by Chiefs to allow this.
  7. Pro­duce agree­ments or con­sents by all New Brunswick Chiefs who agreed to Con­fer­era­tion of 1867.
  8. Pro­duce evi­dence of con­sents to The Indi­an Act by all Native Tribes.
  9. Pro­duce records of Trust Funds.
  10. Pro­duce agree­ments for 4% of all min­er­al shares of fin­ished prod­ucts in Cana­da, except coal.
  11. Pro­duce all cor­re­spon­dence let­ters per­tain­ing to Num­bered Treaties (Promis­es).
  12. Pro­duce all doc­u­ments cre­at­ing bor­der divi­sions, that divide the Wabana­ki con­fed­er­a­cy.
  13. Pro­duce the Orders from the Lords of Trade to the Gov­er­nor of the Colonies.

Indigenous Pipeline Protesters Harass Oil Tanker

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B.C. First Nation, the Tsleil-Wau­tuth, were joined by envi­ron­men­tal­ists Oct 14, as they crossed Bur­rard Inlet in canoes to protest Kinder Morgan’s pro­posed pipeline expan­sion.

15th Octo­ber The Tsleil-Wau­tuth First Nation and envi­ron­men­tal­ists have crossed Bur­rard Inlet in tra­di­tion­al canoes to protest U.S. oil giant Kinder Morgan’s $5B plans to expand its Trans Moun­tain pipeline.

Pro­test­ers dodged tankers as they sailed close to the Westridge Marine Ter­mi­nal, in a bid to stop Kinder Mor­gan near­ly tripling the capac­i­ty of the pipeline, which car­ries crude oil from the Alber­ta oil­sands to tankers in Van­cou­ver.

When com­plet­ed, the pro­posed expan­sion is expect­ed to increase capac­i­ty in Trans Moun­tain from the exist­ing capac­i­ty of 300,000 bar­rels per day to 850,000 bar­rels per day.

The protest comes as cab­i­net min­is­ters and senior bureau­crats head to British Colum­bia as part of a major gov­ern­ment push to mol­li­fy oppo­nents of build­ing oil pipelines to the West Coast.

The new Harp­er ini­tia­tive fol­lows a report from the prime minister’s spe­cial pipelines rep­re­sen­ta­tive in British Colum­bia, David Eyford, who told Harp­er last month that nego­ti­a­tions with First Nations are a mess.

Sources say Eyford urged the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment take the lead role in deal­ing with Indi­an bands on both the pro­posed expan­sion of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Moun­tain pipeline and Enbridge’s North­ern Gate­way project.

The Trans Moun­tain line stretch­es 1,150 kilo­me­tres between Edmon­ton and ter­mi­nals in the Van­cou­ver area and Wash­ing­ton State. It car­ries heavy and light crude oil, as well as refined prod­ucts such as gaso­line and diesel.

It has been involved in sev­er­al recent spills includ­ing more 100,000 litres of light crude oil that was spilled at Kinder Morgan’s Sumas ter­mi­nal in Jan­u­ary.

Mean­while, an Enbridge offi­cial says the com­pa­ny expects a deci­sion from the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment on its pro­posed North­ern Gate­way pipeline by mid-2014, mean­ing the pipeline could be mov­ing oil by 2018.

The North­ern Gate­way pipeline pro­posed by Enbridge would deliv­er 525,000 bar­rels of petro­le­um a day to a tanker ter­mi­nal in Kiti­mat, on the north coast of B.C.

 

Two La Parota Resisters Attacked With Machetes

14th Octo­ber The Land is Not for Sale! A com­mu­ni­ty in resis­tance to La Paro­ta dam.

14th Octo­ber The Land is Not for Sale! A com­mu­ni­ty in resis­tance to La Paro­ta dam.

UPDATE (10/15/2013): Although the attack hap­pened on Oct 11, the fed­er­al Pub­lic Min­istry (respon­si­ble for inves­ti­gat­ing and pros­e­cut­ing crimes) has yet to vis­it the men in the hos­pi­tal to take any state­ment from them.

Two mem­bers of the Coun­cil of Eji­dos and Com­mu­ni­ties in Oppo­si­tion to La Paro­ta Dam (CECOP) were attacked at their home with machetes on Fri­day, Oct 11, by sup­port­ers of the dam project. Both of the men, Rodri­go León Jac­in­to and Isidro Saligán Guadalupe, are still under med­ical super­vi­sion. Saligán may lose an eye. Both men and all five of their attack­ers (four men and a woman) come from the vil­lage of Hua­mu­chi­tos.

The attack­ers are believed to have fled the area.