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Volume 8 Issue 25
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Pipeline approval would be ‘illegal,’ says Haisla Nation
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TERRACE - Noreen Sandberg, left, with Shayla Hudson, both air cadets with the Royal Canadian 747 Air Cadets Squadron helped serve refreshments Dec. 19 as the cadets first took senior citizens on a Christmas lights tour of the area and then treated them at the Air Cadet Hall at the airport.
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KITIMAT - The Haisla Nation says it’s disappointed by the Joint Review Panel’s recommendation that Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Pipeline project should be approved. “The Haisla Nation did not have faith that this panel or the process would take our rights and title interests seriously in the face of big oil money. Haisla from the start pointed out more than once that this panel could not reach a fair decision given the fact that we did not have input into the development of the process. It was the only process available to us so we sought to place before the panel accurate scientific technical data, going into a deficit to do so,” Haisla officials said in a Dec. 19, 2013 release. “We will be reviewing the report in detail in the coming days to try to understand how the panel could reach its conclusions, and to determine what our next course of action will be.” The 1,170 kilometre pipeline carrying Alberta crude would end at a marine terminal in the Kitimat area where it would be pumped into tankers for export to Asia. At the same time, Enbridge would build a second pipeline, this one to import condensate, an oil thinner, and pump it to Alberta where it would be mixed with the crude. “Given the high cultural and resource values in both these areas and the strong Haisla Nation aboriginal title claim to the lands required for the project, we participated fully in the Joint Review Panel’s process with the hope that the voice of the Haisla Nation would be heard,” read the release. “The panel doesn’t seem to have heard or if they did, it didn’t affect their mindset. It is not only the Haisla Nation that has not been heard. The extensive argument of the Haisla Nation and of British Columbia concerning the massive environmental risk that comes with this project has been ignored. “Our people have seen corporations taint our fish and loot our forests. We are not prepared to sit back,” the release continued. The release also noted the federal government must speak with aboriginal groups, including the Haisla, as part of the work it must put in before deciding whether or not to back the review panel’s recommendations. So far, the release continued, the Haisla have not been able to meet with the federal government. “Instead of consulting meaningfully with us, the federal government has attempted to shoe-horn all First Nations into a one-size-fits-all process that does not even approach meaningful consultation. This is not an acceptable way for the Crown to meet its obligations to the Haisla Nation and undermines the legitimacy of any government decision for this project,” the release stated. It said the project amounts to an “unjustified infringement of our aboriginal rights and our aboriginal title. A decision to approve [the pipeline] would be illegal.”
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