Indigenous Activists Win “David vs. Goliath” Victory as Court Rejects $4.5B Trans Mountain Pipeline

[@ainisepalu8427]

Honour the First Nations! Great victory!!

[@drmodestoesq]

Great victory for Americans. Cheap Canadian oil for the foreseeable future.

[@lazylight007]

Good victories. These companies just seem to lack a moral conscious, driven by greed.

[@xjarheadjohnson]

MN VETERANS against oil expansion!

[@XX-gy7ue]

there has to be a way for people not to have their money invested in these gangster companies and corporations - NO MORE MUTUAL FUNDS ! EVERYTHING HAS TO BE MADE KNOWN , AND PEOPLE HAVE TO BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR WHERE THEIR MONEY IS BEING INVESTED ! BRAVO IN STOPPING THE GREEDY !

[@kennyronald1886]

justin's way of paying for his new voters is sinking. Just like the unjust carbon tax. This is great news. Stand tall First Nations!!!!

[@DuyNguyen-hg6kd]

Good job Canada

[@dylancalewarts6306]

This is fucking ridiculous. A judge has no such power.

[@davidlarsen2184]

Trudeau said to the world that the Canadian government wouldn't subsidise the oil industry and a year later what does he do? Buy a pipline and expand it. They talk about transitioning to a clean economy but piplines aren't short term investments.

[@drmodestoesq]

"Tries" to expand it. It's still bogged down in the courts.

[@rthawknatanabah1759]

WHO DOESN'T HAVE CHILDREN OR GRANDCHILDREN TO LIVE IN THIS LIVING CIRCLE WE ALL LIVE IN, STAND UP SPEAK UP FOR HUMANITY WAYS..... silent prayer

[@heyyou2104]

As Canadians we must be better treaty partners to our Native people, respect the land, and water resourses, and show the same to respect our USA friends and all the water protectors. This pipeline is oil terrorism and is unethical, period.

[@drmodestoesq]

"Our USA friends?" Trump asserted that Canada was a security threat to the United States.

[@charlenef.9055]

The earth has won - clean air has sighed - the environment has cheered, hip hip hooray

[@tamanassman]

Carr: "provides confirmation that our decision to buy this pipeline because of political risks that were hard for a private-sector actor, as absolutely the correct decision." To whit, a FOREIGN private-sector actor, whose "political risks" are higher priority than the political risks of actual Canadians and the indigenous nations whose lands the pipeline will violate. The stockholders' vote to accept the Canadian government's completely stupid offer to buy the pipeline almost amounts to rigged stock manipulation. That no one in the video pointed out that Enbridge is a spawn of Enron needed saying. And I gotta say, Ms. Goodman, that while it's great to see any American network actually covering the pipeline at all, your focus on Alberta was off-kilter as it's BC that's most impacted. And while yeah Line 3 is also an Enbridge project and Winona Duke had many valuable observations especially about the Canadian economy, the bulk of this video concerned an American story, whereas there's a lot of depth of material on TMX (the TransMountain Expansion) that you should have covered... considering who you are as an independent and informed network. I encourage you to do more coverage of the pipeline politics in Canada, of which there'll be lots but I really must urge you to give the British Columbian points of view on the matter; surely you know what the Unoccupied Territories are and what that means, that the Crown has no actual sovereignty on all of the pipeline route from the Continental Divide to Burrard Inlet. The corporate media has already begun to spin the court decision into what they claim is a list of instructions for the government as to how to get it done, but other than the Harper-appointed members of the NEB being fired and replaced by actual economic and environmental scientists instead of political hacks the lip-service to "consent and consultation" is being invoked again as if somehow if they're nicer or pony up more grease to bribe more chiefs and bands, they'll get it built. What's more likely is secession by BC, frankly, should Ottawa and Alberta keep on talking the way they're talking....especially if Ottawa tries to get the line built through the use of troops... which Jim Carr is among those who have threatened such things. The reality is that Skwxwxu7mesh leader Khelsilem, Tsleil-wau-tuth chief Reuben George and the leaders of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs have made it very clear where they stand ... and Khelsilem has said directly that if they want to consult, then they have to listen. But the corporate media are saying such obligation to consult doesn't mean a veto. And the corporate media are pitching The side of this you need to cover is China's demands on Trudeau about requiring a pipeline to the Pacific for the tar sands... even though they don't even want the product nor is there a market for it. How all this intertwines with the China-FIPA I encourage you to investigate, likewise the unreality of there being markets in Asia for Alberta's black gunk.... one outcome of a completed TMX (which won't get built without war, frankly) would be that all that stuff would go to refineries in the US, where almost all of the current TransMountain pipeline's load goes. Alberta's threats to 'turn off the taps' to BC, lately repeated by United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenny and Premier Notley, means threatening to turn off the taps to Cherry Point and Anacortes and the other US PacNW refineries... it's not just because of orcas and other marine life in the Strait of Juan de Fuca that the Governor Inslee of Washington has expressed opposition to the pipeline.. I hope to see more coverage from you on all that you haven't covered about this so far - and check out Vaughan Palmer's corporate-spin op-ed on yesterday's Vancouver Sun... the real coverage of this is on thetyee.ca and some on straight.com. your next piece on this should talk to the people in BC, not Alberta or Minnesota. And please do cover Canada more, though it seems to me like you need to hire some Canadian researchers and writers. Hint hint. Sharing this on FB so more Canadians and British Columbians will see it, but given its headline it would have been a lot better if it were only about the politics of the TMX and didn't spend most of its time talking about Line Three in Minnesota.

[@katieh7838]

solar powered data centers?

[@mathhew7352]

They are now trying to build the pipeline in the Texas hill country near Austin and San Marcos!

[@andiw7358]

So actually the corporations were rewarded with $4.5 billion.

[@elaine5446]

Andrea Wisner: Go figure. I thought the same thing. Don't know that the taxpayers agreed to this purchase. Canadians should demonstrate against that.

[@liegesaboya33]

Hi Amy Goodman ! Maybe Democracy Now comes to Brazil to see whats hapenning to these indigenous people , thanks ! Brasilia , Sept 11/2013 (Reuters) - Brazilian prosecutors want to block the permit for a massive gold mine planned by Belo Sun Mining Corp on the Xingu River in the Amazon, arguing that the Canadian company has failed to study the impact on local Indian communities, the prosecutors’ office said on Wednesday. The Volta Grande, or Big Bend, open-pit project is slated to start operating in 2016 and become Brazil’s largest gold mine. It is in the northern state of Para next to another controversial project, Belo Monte, which is designed to become the worlds third largest hydroelectric dam and has also been the target of lawsuits and public prosecutors. Environmentalists, and now federal authorities, are saying the double impact of the two massive projects on the habitat of two local Indian communities straddling the Xingu River has not been properly studied. following another report on the same canadian minning company , from last year www.ipsnews.net/2017/04/gold-mine-aggravates-tensions-in-brazils-amazon-region/ secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/deadly_gold_77/?wZegTlb

[@nuffzed]

It's not as if the National Energy Board is biased. Their flawed review was just an unfortunate mistake. Oops!

[@charlenef.9055]

There are better renewable energy technologies to use. Leave oil and gas in the ground. Stop destroying and distorting the environment of clean air, clean water.

[@readmore8740]

Some nasty stuff, this dinosaur juice...

[@razxmnazx1031]

thank fuck/the force/god and anything else you got

[@stevei-cj4sc]

Folks as much as I love Democracy Now this story is a bit misleading. The Federal Appeals court ruled that the National Energy Board did not do enough public consultation and should have studied the impact of oil tankers on marine life. This is surprising because the federal court has never been a bastion of peoples rights,more corporate leaning, but even they were shocked at the rubber stamp of the NEB. This has been going on forever in Canada. To say its a win for native populations is over the top. Many native groups want the pipeline and 1 in Alberta is actively considering buying into it. Its public consultation and marine impact that was inadequate. cheers

[@shadironconfederacy7486]

steve i2000 wrong, Indigenous consultation and tanker traffic.

[@danielpalos]

Boring technologies!

[@normanedwards8552]

((COURTS) Everything is tied up in the courts nowadays just to prolong the process of things 💪

[@MhadPheeGFYS]

Missing three brackets.

[@foxbat144]

Good for the USA. Now Canada is TOTALLY DEPENDENT on imported oil.

[@drmodestoesq]

Because the oil export market is entirely south to the U.S.A. Therefore Canada can not sell it at global prices. It has to take a massive hit on the price. And Trump can simply put a tariff on Canadian oil any time he wants to cripple the Canadian economy.

[@moussaouiahmed]

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[@MhadPheeGFYS]

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[@kennyronald1886]

Don't vote liberal.

[@gregromaine5958]

Great day for those wishing Canadians take a step back to the hunter/gatherer days. For the rest of us a sad day for Canada.

[@ravenraven779]

😂

[@kennyronald1886]

Go have a pork soda

[@mynameislove7605]

Awww so sad that you can't ruin mother earth more? I've seen soooo many times how important it is for canucks to clean up crude spills. They could care less.. Just hose it down the stream's and rivers right? Keep drinking the crude you love so much k.

[@heyyou2104]

Dont worry destroying the world will get you there soon

[@stopscammingman]

Damn good.