The Campaign Against Shell Oil Continues

Posted by Tad McIlwraith on June 11th, 2007 filed in Mining, Resource Use, Sacred Sites

Merran Smith of Forest Ethics (Smithers, BC) writes in theTyee.ca about the opposition to Shell Oil’s interest in coal-bed methane in the Klappan Region of northwestern BC. This comes on the heels of a video by Dogwood Initiative and a news article by Joel Connelly of the Seattle Post Intelligencer. (See my recent blog post.)

As development comes closer to reality, the comparisons with Shell’s activities in Africa are getting louder. The stories of the Tahltan and Iskut blockades and protests — and potential conflicts between a pro-development council and anti-development elders — are becoming more audible at the same time.

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