Standing rock of the north

[maryjane48]

https://www.desmog.ca/2017/10/18/will-k ... rock-north



Will Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain Oilsands Pipeline Become the Standing Rock of the North?
James Wilt | October 18, 2017

Oceti Sakowin Camp Standing Rock
The battle against the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline could lead to the next Standing Rock and destroy any investment case for the project, according to a newly released report.

The report, commissioned by the Secwepemc nation and prepared by the Indigenous Network on Economies and Trade, is titled “Standing Rock of the North: The Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Secwepemc Risk Assessment.”

Over the course of 35 pages, it articulates seven ways that Kinder Morgan Canada has failed “to account for the lack of political, legal, and proprietary certainty surrounding the pipeline.”

“The government has to follow the minimum standards laid out in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples — that includes free, prior and informed consent, which they have not gotten from us for the project,” Kanahus Manuel, member of the Secwepemc Women Warrior Society and daughter of the late Art Manuel, told The Guardian.

“Instead Kinder Morgan is hiding the risks and the costs their backers will face when this pipeline doesn’t get built.”

Canada and B.C. have both committed to implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, also known as UNDRIP. A central component of UNDRIP is an adherence to “free, prior and informed consent,” meaning consent that is attained without coercion or manipulation, with plenty of notice and makes sure that detailed information is provided. There's plenty of debate in Canada about how UNDRIP can actually be implemented, but in the meantime governments are talking the talk without always walking the walk.

The proposed Trans Mountain expansion pipeline (referred to as TMEP in the report) would transport 890,000 barrels of oil per day from Edmonton to Burnaby and plans to cross 518 kilometres of Secwepemc territory, which accounts for about half of the pipeline’s entire length.

The problem?

The Secwepemc nation never ceded, released or surrendered their land to the British Crown or Canadian state. That’s the case in much of British Columbia. The original pipeline was first built in 1951, when Indigenous peoples weren’t allowed to organize on land issues or hire lawyers.

But it’s now 2017. And that matters a great deal given the Secwepemc nation unreservedly opposes the pipeline.



again we see an example of our previous lib govt runiing rough shod ovrr a first nation like they are invisable . why would clark and her gang of done that ? simple as the public record states km gave money to clarks govt . its always follow the money

[Fancy]

Haven't read all of this but the NDP seemed to have been involved:
https://books.google.ca/books?id=aQgvB_ ... DP&f=false

[The Green Barbarian]

hope that one of the ways that this isn't like Standing Rock is that the enviro/leftist commie People participating in this protest clean up their massive tons of garbage and filth. The Standing Rock garbage pile after all of the dirty hippies left was just disgusting.

[Hurtlander]

The report, commissioned by the Secwepemc nation and prepared by the Indigenous Network on Economies and Trade, is titled “Standing Rock of the North: The Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Secwepemc Risk Assessment.”

Ironically it’s a Secwepemc construction company that has the contract to do much of the prep work on the KM right-of-way in my neck of the woods. The Secwepemc First Nation doesn’t have a permanent position one way or the other on the KM upgrade.

[JagXKR]

hope that one of the ways that this isn't like Standing Rock is that the enviro/leftist commie People participating in this protest clean up their massive tons of garbage and filth. The Standing Rock garbage pile after all of the dirty hippies left was just disgusting.

Not really tons more like 24,000 tons. More than 48 million pounds of garbage by these "defenders of the land". Yes MILLION!
Shameful but par for the course from the myopic left. Can only see what they want without the repercussions of their actions. The worst people on the planet.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... million-p/

[ferri]

*Don't wander too far off topic please. Thanks!