P NOTE THE PARTNERSHIP OF COMPANIES IN THIS PROJECT! Corporate interests are attempting to drive a set of pipelines through northern British Columbia wilderness, across lands that have never been ceded through treaty. The primary perpetrators in this instance are the Kitimat LNG project (a partnership between APACHE CANADA Ltd. and CHEVRON CANADA Limited) and ENBRIDGE Northern Gateway Pipelines (a creation of Enbridge Inc.). Canada’s own legal system says these lands do not really belong to Canada. Yet industry and settler governments show repeated readiness to use subterfuge and illegitimate force to try take over lands that still belong to Indigenous peoples. Unist’ot’en resistance promises to mark a turning point in the history of the colonial constructs named British Columbia and Canada. Over a century of abusive resource extraction already scars a thinly populated BC hinterland. The impact of multiple pipelines laid along a proposed new path would make already existing environmental damage look like tiny scratches. The devastations that the pipelines tie into – accelerated tar sands expansion, hydraulic fracking that injects massive chemical cocktails into the earth – would go far beyond the considerable impacts of the pipelines themselves. The additional industrial activity would also pose unacceptable risks of rendering the land itself uninhabitable, whether through accidental toxic spillage, through routine noxious extraction and processing of carbons, or through flooding of farmland to generate huge new hydroelectric capacity for compression and transport of fracked gas.
Posted on: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 00:56:22 +0000
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