The LNG Canada plant and Coastal GasLink pipeline are being built at a time when a glut of LNG "is a major recipe for disaster", according to one analyst.
Canadian journalists shy away from the term "land defenders", but what if the Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs' supporters are actually correct in using this term?
Canada lost something critical last week by shoving aside efforts toward positive settler-Indigenous relations in order to mobilize, with exactitude, the ever-reaching, greedy-fingered arms of the state.
He and his ministers knew (or ought to have known) exactly where this was all heading when they granted a five-year extension of the Coastal Gaslink pipeline’s environmental assessment certificate in the fall.
The RCMP’s enforcement of the Coastal GasLink injunction against the Wet’suwet’en has ignited a national debate about the law and the rights of Indigenous people.
