British Columbia Becoming the new Nigeria?
Posted by Tad McIlwraith on June 8th, 2007 filed in Mining, Resource Use, Sacred Sites
The Dogwood Initiative has posted a video on Youtube about Shell’s exploration and development in northwestern British Columbia. It makes comparisons between Shell’s poor environmental and human rights track record in Nigeria and potential destruction of what Tahltan people call the Sacred Headwaters (the headwaters of the Skeena, Nass, Spatsizi, and Stikine Rivers). The video shows scenes from the Klappan Valley and arrests of Iskut and Tahltan elders at a blockade in 2005.
Update: Dogwood Initiative has published a longer explanation and backgrounder for their YouTube video. It summarizes much of the protest activity centred on the Spatsizi and Klappan region (the Sacred Headwaters) in recent years.
Update: Dogwood Initiative points to a new report by One Sky (Canadian Institute for Sustainable Living) called ‘When Gas Explodes.’ This is the story of Shell’s interest in northwestern British Columbia. The report includes considerable information about aboriginal resistance to mining in the area.
Update: Joel Connelly, of the Seattle Post Intelligencer, fills in the greater BC political context for mining in northwestern BC. His piece is entitled ‘Is B.C. Premier Going ‘Green’?‘
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June 11th, 2007 at 9:10 pm
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