Pro-development voices not heard as activists use protests to advance own agenda: Indigenous leaders

EDMONTON — First Nations leaders who are pro-resource development say their voices are being drowned out by environmental activists who have co-opted a protest movement started by anti-pipeline hereditary chiefs. They’re also raising questions about who should speak for the Wet’suwet’en First Nation.

“I think that it’s very ironic that environmentalists are interfering in our business since they actually killed our way of life by stopping the fur trade,” said Dan George, a Wet’suwet’en elected band chief for Burns Lake. “I think it’s started out as a Wet’suwet’en issue and it will be fixed as a Wet’suwet’en issue.”

“The protest organizers are conveniently hiding beneath our blanket as Indigenous people, while forcing their policy goals at our expense,” Tait Day said in a statement. “The Wet’suwet’en Matriarch’s Coalition is not endorsed by the Wet’suwet’en and is not associated with our traditional governing structure that predates colonization,” the account said.

At the end of last month, Chief Russ Chipps and two councillors from Beecher Bay First Nation, wrote a letter, reported The Guardian, and sent it to Extinction Rebellion Vancouver Island. I think a lot of First Nations are starting to get frustrated with these groups speaking on behalf of First Nations' interests

Beaten at their own game😘

They're 'not heard,' despite Postmedia and the oil & gas industry giving them the megaphone all the time to cry that they're supposedly being drowned out.

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