Enbridge Northern Gateway today filed a massive 11-volume study with the Joint Review Panel outlining possible scenarios for oil spills along the route including the Kitimat and Morice Rivers in British Columbia. The study, carried out by three consulting firms, Stantec Consuting and AMEC Environmental & Infrastructure both of Calgary and RPS ASA of Rhode […]
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A news release issued late this afternoon, June 11, 2012, by the Gitxsan Unity Movement says the group has lifted the blockade of the boarded up treaty office in Hazelton. Gitxsan Unity says the group took down the blockade, remoiving the plywood and lumber blocking all access to allow an "enforced forensic audit" from Aboriginal […]
About a thousand people gathered in front of the British Columbia legislature on Sunday, April 12, 2012, for the Day of Action Against the Northern Gateway pipeline. But unlike protests, marches and gatherings here in the northwest of British Columbia, which are often tightly focused on the controversial pipeline and the associated tanker traffic and […]
The Gitxsan hereditary chiefs have formally rejected the deal signed in December by Elmer Derrick to support the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline. A meeting in Hagwilge Tuesday evening rejected by a vote of 28 to 8 the controversial equity deal. The vote may also lead to the end of the blockade of the Gitxsan Treaty […]
Analysis British Columbia once had the richest, longest-lasting, sustainable oil economy on the planet. That's almost all gone now. While the environmental movement loves to quote Joni Mitchell's “You don't know what you've got til it's gone,” the collapse of BC's oil economy is perhaps the best example in history of what Mitchell meant in […]
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Gitxsan protestors ordered to end blockade by Sunday
December 8, 2011
First Nations Members of the Gitxsan First Nation who are objecting to the deal signed between Enbridge and the Gitxsan Treaty Office have been served an injunction ordering them to end their blockade of the office in Hazelton by Sunday. CFJW Gitxsan Protesters Vow to Defy Court Injunction Protesters continue to bar access to the Gitxsan […]
Energy Environment First Nations The dispute over who represents that Gitxsan First Nation became a media duel Wednesday, with an opinion piece by Gitxsan Treaty Office leader Elmer Derrick published in The Vancouver Sun and an almost simultaneous news release from the coastal Gitxaala First Nation from Kitkatla, emphasizing that nation's opposition to the pipeline. […]
Energy First Nations Economy TD Waterhouse Marketwatch has picked up an analysis from Reuters Enbridge pipeline deal with native group fraying. Not the best news for Enbridge now that a major bank is letting the markets know about the unraveling deal with the Gitxscan Treaty Organization and Elmer Derrick. A deal with a native chief […]
Enbridge unswayed by Gitxsan controversy: Vancouver Sun
December 5, 2011
Energy First Nations The Vancouver Sun reports Enbridge unswayed by Gitxsan controversy Enbridge Inc., on Monday, remained unruffled by the growing controversy in north western British Columbia communities surrounding the participation agreement it signed Dec. 2 with the Gitxsan First Nation. "I've seen some comment, I don't know that that's a considerable amount," said Paul […]