Dogwood News This Week: making history

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Published on Sunday, 29 November -0001 16:00

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Email Template r1 Your place for news and action Last week’s Peace and Unity Summit set events in motion that could transform B.C. politics in a good way. The gathering of Indigenous leaders, hosted by Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs on Cas Yikh territory, offered a space for radical truth-telling about the moment we’re in.

Delegates rafted down the Wedzin Kwa past returning salmon, stopping at the mouth of Coastal GasLink’s enormous tunnel – big enough for three or four pipelines. They witnessed RCMP... arrest land defenders, then spin the media with a slanted and misleading press blitz.

Indigenous people existing on their own land is an existential threat to “British Columbia”, panelists explained. That’s why B.C. is pouring money into a permanent emergency police force normally reserved for terrorist attacks or major natural disasters.

Despite that, hereditary leaders and community members all over the province are stepping up their work to revive languages, reclaim village sites, care for families and defend the land and water that keep us all alive. We heard powerful commitments from chiefs and allies getting ready for the next chapter.

Some politicians came as witnesses, too – Sonia Furstenau and SȾHENEP, Adam Olsen from the BC Greens offered clear-eyed reflections on the disconnect they feel every day in the colonial legislature. Anjali Appadurai, former NDP candidate in Vancouver-Granville, joined as well.

“All of you here are making history,” said Dini Ze Na’moks, high chief of the Wet’suwet’en beaver clan. I believe he will be proven correct. You can check out the Peace and Unity Summit, where shorter video clips from the week will be posted soon.

• As Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs welcomed delegates from across the country to the Peace and Unity Summit, RCMP moved in and arrested land defenders in front of guests. -The Narwhal
  
  
• Dead salmon are showing up next to a Trans Mountain worksite on the Coquihalla River.
  
  
• Binge watching your favourite Netflix show might be helping to build the Trans Mountain expansion. Wait… what? -DeSmog
  
  
• As domestic LNG exports ramp up, Canadians may actually pay more to heat their homes with gas. -Reuters
  
  
• Fortis has a proposal to expand production up to 4.4 million tonnes of LNG per year in Metro Vancouver, a project clearly not aligned with the city’s climate plan. Will council approve it? -Vancouver Sun
  
  
• Another day, another politician using the war in Ukraine as an excuse to ramp up Canadian LNG production. -Global News
  
  
• Eight years after Mount Polley’s tailings dam collapsed and sent a torrent of toxic wastewater into Quesnel Lake, the company responsible (Imperial Metals) is ramping up operations as it awaits a provincial permit that would allow it to continue dumping waste into the water. -The Tyee

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