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Native Women Shut Down Pipeline “Consultation”
Montreal — First Nations women and supporters sent a clear message to TransCanada this Wednesday evening that the Energy East pipeline is not welcome through First Nations lands.
“What we want TransCanada to understand is that no means no. This is Kanien’ke, this is Mohawk Land and we are tired of occupation, we are tired of environmental disaster.” said Lickers at Wednesday night’s hearing. “This is our land and we are going to protect it.”
Amanda Lickers and Vanessa Gray were 2 of several First Nations opponents to the Energy East present to express their outrage at the public hearings hosted by the Communauté métropolitaine de Montréal.
The purpose of the hearings is to establish a community report to submit to Office of Public Hearings on the Environment (BAPE) and the National Energy Board (NEB).
“But the consultation process does not work”, states Lickers, whose family is from Six Nations of the Grand River, “the NEB hearings for Line 9 were clear as day – between technical and engineering data to basic violations of treaty and territory agreements, Enbridge should have been denied their application but instead they were rubber stamped.”
“TransCanada’s Energy East pipeline threatens the chance of a sustainable future.” says Vanessa, co-founder of Aamjiwnaang and Sarnia Against Pipelines. “TransCanada has already proven to be a dangerous company for Indigenous peoples protecting their territory. Taking back our inherited right to live with the land means we must defend the land and water at any cost.”
After Lickers and Gray took the stage with a banner, the room erupted in chants from supporters, “No consent, no pipelines” and “No tar sands on stolen native lands” as dozens of supporters shut down the hearings in support of First Nations.
The process for public consultation excludes First Nations interests by relying on Crown policy for assessing environmental impacts. “Energy East itself actually violates the Haudenosaunee constitution – the Great Law of Peace – as it jeopardizes future generations access to clean, drinkable water, while expanding the environmental destruction of the tar sands at ground zero in Athabasca.”
But it isn’t just tar sands mining and pipeline transport that those opposing the pipeline development are concerned about. TransCanada requires super tanker transport and new marine terminals to be built for the Energy East, which puts the entire St. Lawrence waterway at risk of bitumen spills as well as threatening delicate Beluga habitat.
10 Comments on "Native Women Shut Down Pipeline “Consultation”"
Hello on Thu, 24th Sep 2015 2:09 pm
I congratulate their efforts. I hope they can muster the stamina to fight the ‘machine’.
Plantagenet on Thu, 24th Sep 2015 3:00 pm
Congrats to the Mohawk women for fighting big oil. Next I hope they’ll sell off their cars and pickup trucks and turn off the furnaces that heat their homes and close all the gas stations on Mohawk Land and work to return to their much more healthy traditional lifestyles in order to reduce their own carbon emissions as much as possible..
paulo1 on Thu, 24th Sep 2015 3:35 pm
With Native protests in Canada it is usually about the money or laying hostage for more of it. FF use in northern reserves is beyond anything imaginable to folks down south. Air travel for people and supplies, expensive fuel for trucks, SUVs, snow machines, and boats. Diesel generating plants that run 24/7…for an exploding population in areas that doesn’t have jobs (often 99% unemployed, the rest employed by ‘the Band’).
And these women protest a pipeline? Talk about hypocrisy. It reminds me of the traditonal west coast food fishery where 80 foot seiners are used. Talk about disconnect.
Plant gets it, but then again he lives in Alaska with the same situation. It is mind boggling.
apneaman on Thu, 24th Sep 2015 4:26 pm
paulo1, it’s much more complicated than your “just world” view implies. Ever notice the double pattern among European conquered indigenous peoples that are surrounded by the new culture? Firstly, the majority of them live in poverty with all the accompanying horrors of : addiction, abuse, violence, suicide, etc. Secondly, a significant portion of the descendants of the conquerors are cherry picking critical when it comes to judging them and it is exclusively about money. I have heard your ignorant comments thousands of times in my life. It’s the same with the Blacks in the states. Why is that we see this same situation everywhere? Is just because all these people have made bad personal choices? What a coincidence. In addition, I hear similar talk when it comes groups who want to live some form of cultural autonomy outside the dominate culture and not 100% assimilate. Like Hutterites, or Amish and many many more. Sure you can have your temple and celebrations, but don’t stray too far. Seems that many feel threatened by them and feel the need to go on the attack, even when no threat actually exists. Oh, I don’t disagree that some of them abuse the system, but for the most part it mimics every other society that way with a minority of well benefiting corrupt elites. It’s ape tribalism on a larger scale. In group – out group. Fear of the other.
Hello on Thu, 24th Sep 2015 5:02 pm
Ape, don’t feel sorry for Blacks. They are pretty successful for their race. Some even run a drug peddling business. And some others figured out where north is and are heading there.
apneaman on Thu, 24th Sep 2015 5:20 pm
Firstly, I was not looking to generate sympathy for anyone, but rather explain a pattern of ape behaviour.
Secondly, if I feel sorry for anyone, it’s you. It must be hell being shackled to that brain.
paulo1 on Thu, 24th Sep 2015 5:39 pm
Apnea,
I spent years flying the planes into the villages I describe. It is the way it is, and it is unaffordable for the rest of society and all societies. If there was no dominant culture to pay the bills, the population would be much much lower and based on the carrying capacity of the land.
makati1 on Thu, 24th Sep 2015 9:05 pm
Isn’t it interesting that, prior to the Chris Columbus landing, the native people of North America lived a good life, balanced with nature and numbering many millions (estimates are between 20 and 100 million).
About 100 years later, most were dead from the European plague, the Black Death, started by Columbus. Those not killed by plague were hunted down and killed for their land. Thus began the plundering country called America.
Perhaps, if we are lucky, the Us will only be pared back to about 20 million and we can try to imitate the original inhabitants. If there is any ecology left to do so, that is. I doubt it.
Roman on Fri, 25th Sep 2015 4:50 pm
Here’s a few natural laws: You don’t own land unless you can defend it. Women and children need to know their place.
No wonder the feminist natives went extinct. The sad thing is islamics will rule the world because Christian patriarchy is dead.
But, I agree Canada is not a country.
apneaman on Fri, 25th Sep 2015 5:01 pm
Myth busting time again.
The Ecologically Noble Savage
https://www.culturalsurvival.org/ourpublications/csq/article/the-ecologically-noble-savage
Humans responsible for demise of gigantic ancient mammals
Early humans were the dominant cause of the extinction of a variety of species of giant beasts, new research has revealed.
http://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/featurednews/title_465673_en.html