LNG Canada chief executive says it will move ‘immediately’ into construction
Rhianna Schmunk, CBC News,
Construction is going ahead on a massive, $40-billion liquefied natural gas project in northern B.C., hours after five primary investors from five different countries granted their approval for the joint venture.
The LNG Canada project will see a pipeline carrying natural gas from Dawson Creek in northeastern B.C. to a new processing plant on the coast in Kitimat. There, the gas would be liquefied for overseas export. Read the rest of this entry →
Campers have for years parked their RVs at the Turtle Crossing campground along the Assiniboine River in Manitoba, without knowing that it’s situated on the site of unmarked graves of more than 50 Indigenous children who died at the Brandon Residential School. Read the rest of this entry →
Steel pipe to be used in the oil pipeline construction of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain expansion project sit on rail cars at a stockpile site in Kamloops, B.C. On Thursday, the Federal Court of Appeal quashed Ottawa’s approvals to build the expansion project. (Dennis Owen/Reuters)
Some Indigenous groups and environmentalists oppose $7.4B project
John Paul Tasker, Kathleen Harris, CBC News,
In a stunning blow, the Federal Court of Appeal has quashed approvals to build the Trans Mountain expansion project, but the federal government is determined to proceed with the pipeline.
Today’s ruling is a major victory for Indigenous groups and environmentalists opposed to the $7.4-billion project. Read the rest of this entry →
An excavator on site dismantles a structure at Camp Cloud in Burnaby, B.C. (Rafferty Baker/CBC)
Deadline for camp structures and shelters to be removed was Sunday
Roshini Nair, CBC News ,
Five protesters were arrested Thursday morning as city officials and police moved in to dismantle Camp Cloud, the pipeline protest camp on Burnaby mountain.
Cpl. Daniela Panesar said officers blocked off Shellmont Street and Underhill Avenue at Forest Grove Drive before moving into the camp at 5:30 a.m. PT.
Panesar said 11 people were removed and five people were arrested without incident. She said a family of four living at the camp is now being assisted by social services to secure emergency shelter. Read the rest of this entry →
Participants in the Soaring Eagle after their graduation ceremony on Aug. 10, 2018, in Edmonton, Alberta. Photo: David Bloom / Postmedia
The R.C.M.P. have begun a recruiting program aimed at Indigenous youth called “Soaring Eagle” and apparently modeled after the Canadian military’s programs “Bold Eagle”, “Soaring Bird”, “Black Bear”, and “Raven”.
by Stephen Cook, Edmonton Journal, August 10, 2018
Indigenous teens got the chance to train like police this week in the inaugural Soaring Eagles Indigenous Youth Camp.
Hailing from all over Alberta, the class of 16- to 19-year-olds spent the last week sleeping in barracks and attending classes about policing careers from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in preparation for Friday’s graduation at RCMP K Division Headquarters. Read the rest of this entry →
On a lonely train to nowhere: retired Brock University professor Garth Stevenson.
Tweets on account of retired professor Garth Stevenson attacked Indigenous people
by Grant LaFleche, Aug 8, 2018, The St. Catharines Standard
Brock University is distancing itself from a retired political science professor whose social media accounts shared racist and derogatory messages aimed at Indigenous people this week. Read the rest of this entry →
Steel pipe to be used in the pipeline construction of the Trans Mountain expansion project at a stockpile site in Kamloops, B.C. (Dennis Owen/Reuters)
Pipeline to West Coast now projected to be done by December 2021
The Canadian Press,
Kinder Morgan Canada documents say expanding the Trans Mountain pipeline will cost the federal government an additional $1.9 billion beyond the company’s original construction estimate, and will take another year to complete. Read the rest of this entry →
By Ainslie Cruickshank, Star Metro Vancouver, August 2, 2018
VANCOUVER — A B.C. Supreme Court judge has granted Atlantic-salmon farming company Marine Harvest an interim injunction to prevent both specific protesters and members of the public from getting too close to more than 30 of its sites. Read the rest of this entry →
Innu community block access road to highlight environmental, employment concerns
CBC News,
Workers at Tata Steel Minerals’ Schefferville mine, near the Labrador-Quebec border, have been sent home after a blockade was set up by members of a local First Nations community.
The blockade, set up Thursday night by the Innu community of Matimekush-Lac-John, is on the access road to the mine, which usually has about 400 workers but is now staffed by a skeleton crew of about 30, according to Armand MacKenzie, Tata Steel Minerals Canada’s Vice-President, Government and Stakeholders Relations. Read the rest of this entry →