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Related: About this forumFive Strategies to Stop the Northern Gateway Pipeline from Being Built
Last edited Mon Jun 16, 2014, 03:55 PM - Edit history (1)
https://www.commondreams.org/view/2014/06/16-7***SNIP
Even if the Harper government approves the pipeline today or tomorrow, a range of strategies are being proposed to ensure the pipeline is never built:
BLOCKADE
The Unistoten clan of the Wetsuweten people have set up a resistance camp on their traditional and unceded territory on the pathway of the pipeline. With the support of allies they are building and living in homes and structures to block the pipeline. Given the mountainous terrain of the area south of Houston in northern British Columbia, the pipeline cannot be rerouted to avoid the Unistoten camp.
COURT CHALLENGES
Five challenges against the pipeline have already been filed in federal courts, and it's expected that number could increase to about a dozen. The primary arguments are that the review panel failed to meet its legal obligation by consulting sufficiently with First Nations whose territories are on the pipeline route, and that by not considering the evidence of the impacts of an oil spill the panel erred in its finding that the pipeline would not have a 'significant adverse environmental effect'.
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association is holding workshops to instruct people on their rights in protests against the pipeline. At the request of local groups, workshops have already been offered in the northern communities of Kitimat, Prince Rupert, Smithers, Skedigate, Masset and Hazelton. Grand Chief Phillip has said that, "There is no question [that protesters would block bulldozers]."
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Five Strategies to Stop the Northern Gateway Pipeline from Being Built (Original Post)
xchrom
Jun 2014
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Joe Shlabotnik
(5,604 posts)1. I think this the link that you wanted.
xchrom
(108,903 posts)2. fixed it. thanks! nt
OnlinePoker
(5,725 posts)3. A poll on my local (Victoria, BC) news radio website.
85% are in favour of the pipeline. Sigh.
http://www.cfax1070.com/