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ACTIVIST CLAIM: Fringe anti-Coastal GasLink protestors call on the UN to intervene in Canada on behalf of Indigenous rights.
THE FACTS: All elected Indigenous councils along Coastal GasLink support the project – Indigenous communities must be empowered to make their own decisions, not dictated to by international organizations.
THE SOURCES:
MILITARIZATION OF WET’SUWET’EN LANDS AND CANADA’S ONGOING VIOLATIONS
Here are some facts and sources to have a reasoned conversation about Coastal GasLink and Indigenous communities:
- The elected Wet’suwet’en Nation called on the protestors to end blockades and stop misleading people about support for Coastal GasLink.
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/opinion-we-are- wetsuweten-but-the-coastal- gaslink-pipeline-protesters- dont-represent-us - The activists who are supporting protests on Wet’suwet’en land try to silence Indigenous voices and use them as political pawns instead of respecting their sovereignty and right to partner in natural resource projects.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-using- indigenous-peoples-as- political-pawns-in-resource- development-is/
- Indigenous leaders fear that activism from environmental organizations and others has become a form of “Eco-Colonialism” where many non-Indigenous groups claim to represent Indigenous voices. This happened during the entirety of the Coastal GasLink protests in winter 2020.
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/np-view-listen-to- first-nations-not-the-mob
- 100% of elected First Nation councils along the pipeline route support Coastal GasLink and have signed benefits agreements for their communities. It is not the place of activist groups to determine what an Indigenous community can or can’t do.
- https://www.coastalgaslink.
com/sustainability/indigenous- relations/
- Over 13,900 Indigenous workers are directly employed in the oil and gas industry with 350 working on the Coastal GasLink project including Wet’suwet’en members.
FINAL-Going-Beyond-Supporting-Indigenous-Employment-in- Canadas-Energy-Industry- Dec2020-3.pdf (careersinenergy.ca)
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