Human-rights watchdogs under fire over Coastal GasLink conclusions

The proposed pipeline, a key piece of infrastructure for the $40-billion LNG Canada project that will export Canadian natural gas to Asian markets, has exposed deep divisions between hereditary chiefs and the elected band councils of the Wet’suwet’en.Human-rights agencies that have waded into the Coastal Gaslink conflict in northern British Columbia have failed to acknowledge broad support for the project by First Nations along the pipeline route, Indigenous leaders say.

“It is disheartening to see that the input from 20 First Nations, who participated extensively during five years of consultation on the pipeline, and have successfully negotiated agreements with Coastal GasLink, is so easily dismissed by the B.C. Human Rights Commission,” Karen Ogen-Toews, chief executive officer of the First Nations LNG Alliance, wrote recently in an open letter. The organization issued a similar letter directed at the UN committee.

On Monday, Premier John Horgan offered to send his Minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation, Scott Fraser, to meet with the hereditary chiefs. But in a letter to the Office of the Wet’suwet’en, the Premier noted: “Our government has no authority to vary that injunction, nor to direct the RCMP in the fulfillment of its responsibilities.”

Starving indigenous people for land grabs is cool though right? Genocide seems to be a very common that hasn't ended in over 150 years. Good job Canada!

Wow... that column is so far away from balanced that if NASA harnessed a probe to it, we could even now be exploring the outer reaches of the universe.

It's the new 'colonialism' Either First Nations aren't capable of making sound decisions to benefit their communities or they are exploited by those who pretend they know better in order to push an environmental agenda Apparently our history hasn't taught us anything

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