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First Nations tell Enbridge: No pipelines without consent
Tuesday, May 17, 2011When Enbridge recently held its annual meeting of shareholders in Calgary, the company and the city’s business sector received a powerful message about the obstacles in the way of...
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Save the Fraser Declaration - Alberta and Northwest Territories First Nations...
Wednesday, February 1, 2012On January 30th, media, First Nations groups, activists and one law student intern crowded into a hotel room on the outskirts of Edmonton for a press conference held by the...
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Headlines, Pipelines and Time Spent on the Front Lines
Wednesday, March 7, 2012Reflections of two legal interns from AustraliaAs part of our internship with West Coast Environmental Law, we recently travelled with staff counsel to some of the Northern BC...
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Freedom Train 2012: Taking Enbridge opposition Canada-wide
Thursday, May 17, 2012The cross-Canada railway has always been a powerful symbol. Over the years it has been celebrated as a “nation-building” exercise by some, while it is remembered as a source of...
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First Nations and BC Mayors stand together against threat of oil tankers and...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012In December 2010, representatives of sixty-one Indigenous nations came together in an historic alliance to protect the Fraser watershed and our coastal waters from the threat...
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First Nations warn Enbridge against trespass as BC moves to grant preliminary...
Tuesday, September 17, 2013The Yinka Dene Alliance (YDA), a group of First Nations whose territories cover 25 percent of Enbridge’s proposed Northern Gateway pipelines route, is ramping up enforcement...
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Report from an All Clans Gathering: Why ignoring Indigenous laws on the...
Tuesday, May 20, 2014On April 11, 2014, the Yinka Dene Alliance (“YDA”) held an All Clans Gathering in Nak’azdli (adjacent to Fort St. James) in order for their leaders and elders to issue reasons for...
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Yinka Dene Alliance kick off Day 2 of the Enbridge hearing
Friday, October 2, 2015Day 2: Another inspired and spirited day at the Enbridge Hearing! The courtroom was jam-packed all day as lawyers for the Nak’azdli, Nadleh Whut’en, Gitga’at and Gitxaała Nations...
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Carrying forward lessons from Northern Gateway
Thursday, December 8, 2016Understandably, those opposed to the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain project have not been in a mood to celebrate this past week. At the same time as the Prime Minister announced...
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