Unist'ot'en camp

Broken Promises: CGL, RCMP Block Unist’ot’en Matriarch from Accessing Land, Violate Wildlife Act

Coastal GasLink continues to bulldoze our trap lines and destroy our land, pushing Wet’suwet’en people aside with support from the RCMP. The destruction of our trap lines is a direct threat to the programming of our Healing Centre and the wellness of our clients. We know from our oral histories that this area, now being destroyed for a CGL man camp, has been used by our trappers for thousands of years.

To date, Coastal GasLink has still not undertaken proper consultation or made any agreement with our Hereditary Chiefs. We do not consent to any aspect of this project. We have notified CGL that they are in violation of the Wildlife Act, but they continue to deny us access and destroy our traps.

Under the threat of imminent police violence, our Chiefs reached an agreement with the RCMP to comply with CGL’s temporary injunction. That agreement states “there will not be any RCMP interference with our members regarding access to the territory for the purposes of trapping and/or other traditional practices.”

Now, our trappers are being told they face arrest if they attempt to access their traplines, while CGL bulldozers are being permitted to plow through them.

In this video, Unist’ot’en member Brenda Michell speaks to CGL contractors and RCMP. RCMP Officer Cook is seen consulting with CGL employees before threatening Michell with arrest.

Statement of Support for Unist’ot’en Camp and Wet’suwet’en Leadership

The Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre (DEWC) stands in support with Unist’ot’en Camp and Wet’suwet’en Leadership in their peaceful defense of Wet’suwet’en lands in northern British Columbia against Coastal Gaslink Pipeline. The 1997 Delgamuukw-Gisday’wa case confirmed Wet’suwet’en’s title and rights to these lands as represented and held by their hereditary leaders; moreover, these lands are unceded.

DEWC membership is comprised of majority Indigenous women, low-income and working class women, most of whom are survivors of violence. DEWC recognizes that the same systemic violence that deeply affects Indigenous women takes many forms: in this case, militarized enforcement by the government removing unarmed women and Elders from their traditional lands, disrespecting hereditary leadership, and disrupting healing work and ceremony. Unist’ot’en conducts invaluable work for Indigenous people affected by intergenerational trauma, substance use, abuse, and other lasting effects of colonial violence (ex. residential schools and cultural genocide), work that is imperative to women in the Downtown Eastside community and to true reconciliation. We condemn the actions of the federal and provincial government, the courts and police in granting the injunction to TransCanada’s Coastal Gaslink project and criminalizing Indigenous people protecting their traditional lands and territory.

In 2016, the government of Canada signed onto the United Nations Declarations of the Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP) as a full supporter, without qualification. UNDRIP mandates free, prior and informed consent for any project crossing Indigenous land, which has unequivocally been denied by all five Wet’suwet’en clans. Article 10 of UNDRIP clearly states that “Indigenous peoples shall not be forcibly removed from their land or territories,” while at Gidimt’en Access Point, militarized RCMP arrested land defenders with snipers and automatic weapons on hand. We strongly urge the implementation of UNDRIP at every level, the fulfillment of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)’s 94 Calls to Action, and concrete acknowledgement — and sustained action — on the severity of violence faced by Indigenous women.

DEWC is a non-profit that receives government funding for our work of providing refuge, vital needs, and a spectrum of support to women in the Downtown Eastside. We call on all levels of government to recognize that violence against Indigenous land, violence against water protectors and land defenders, and violence against women are interrelated: in the Downtown Eastside and across Turtle Island (North America).

RCMP on sidelines as TransCanada bulldozes Wet’suwet’en land

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Pipelines over traplines

Since the truce, TransCanada has continued construction activities, working between 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., as mandated by the interim injunction.

The latest developments occurred on Friday, Jan. 25, as company workers bulldozed a trapline belonging to members of the Unist'ot'en House. This trapline had been set well before the injunction was served, and Huson said that TransCanada had no authority to destroy it. Huson also alleged that the recent activities violate Section 46 of the provincial Wildlife Act, which says "a person who knowingly damages or interferes with a lawfully set trap commits an offence."

Under conditions of the Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) and the B.C. Oil and Gas Commission (BCOGC), pipeline companies are required to complete site-specific archeological surveys, before undertaking any clearing work on proposed man-camp sites. In their injunction application, TransCanada acknowledged that these archeological surveys had not yet been completed, and the Office of the Wet'suwet'en and Unist'ot'en House both confirm that they have not received evidence of these legally required site-specific surveys.

Huson said the surveys are critical, as many of the proposed work sites include historical encampments, artifacts and grave sites.

The Unist'ot'en House has called for immediate stop-work orders, to address and investigate potential and ongoing violations of the conditions of their Environmental Assessment Certificate and BCOGC permits. They are currently consulting with legal experts to understand how to continue to assert their rights and address violations under Canadian laws. Their rights and responsibilities under ‘Anuc niwh’it’en (Wet'suwet'en laws) remain clear, members stress.

"It feels like our hands are tied," Huson said. "Our people keep getting threatened for arrests. Our ceremony sites are blocked. They're backing an illegal project that's destroying peoples' livelihoods."

The Environmental Assessment Certificate also requires that the pipeline company notify all tenure holders in the area affected by pipeline construction, six months before construction activity that could impact their tenure. "Chief Knedebeas holds trapline tenure for the Unist'ot'en territory and was notified by the company that site clearing and construction on Camp 9A would not begin until 2020," Huson said.

Kent Karemaker, media relations spokesperson for the B.C. Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources confirmed that the Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) Compliance and Enforcement (C&E) received complaints relating to the construction activities of the Coastal Gaslink by the Wet'suwet'en.

"EAO C&E has since been in contact with the Oil and Gas Commission (OGC), the Conservation Officer Service as well as other relevant provincial agencies," Karemaker told National Observer in an email. "The EAO C&E will be conducting a joint site inspection with the OGC this week to evaluate the complaint directly. We anticipate that it will take some time subsequently to determine whether any non-compliances are evident and, if so, the appropriate enforcement action."

"Everybody is so exhausted. The company doesn't work on Sundays, so we did ceremony all day Sunday," she said. "They're not telling us anything. The only time we get information from them is when they're making demands. It feels like all the officials, the government, and police, are all backing the project and acting as security for the company."

The agreement made between the RCMP and hereditary chiefs on Jan. 10, states that "there will not be any RCMP interference with Wet'suwet'en members regarding access to their territories for the purposes of trapping and/or other traditional practices," but Huson said the agreement has not been upheld. RCMP officers have threatened trappers with arrest for attempting to access their traplines, and warned patients of the Unist'ot'en Healing Centre that they could be arrested for participating in ceremony, she said.

..at the bottom of this support piece is a very long list of musicians who have signed on.

To Unist’ot’en Camp, Land defenders in Wet’suwet’en territory,

On January 7th, 2019 we watched, infuriated as a militarized RCMP forced the removal of 14 land protectors from Wet’suwet’en territory at gunpoint. The continued invasion of unceded Wet’suwet’en land by Coastal GasLink pipeline workers without your consent violates Section 35 of the Canadian Constitution, the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous People and ‘Anuc niwh’it’en (Wet’suwet’en Law). We have heard your hereditary chiefs say “No” to the Coastal Gaslink development and we intend to amplify it. 

We call the Canadian government to account.  As musicians, we know a PR campaign when we see one: since 2015 Justin Trudeau has promoted a message of Truth and Reconciliation and professed the goal of building meaningful nation-to-nation relationships, but his government’s actions don’t align.  Meaningful nation-to-nation relationships are not made at gunpoint.  In response to questions regarding the violence in Wet’suwet’en last week, Trudeau said that it wasn’t “ideal” but that Canada is “a country of the rule of law” inferring that his hands were tied. In fact, he was sidestepping the inconvenient truth that the Supreme Court of Canada found in the 1997 Delgamuukw decision that Indigenous land rights and title were not extinguished at the time of colonization.  As such, the Canadian rule of law states that Wet’suwet’en nation’s hereditary leaders have decision making power on their unceded territory.

Many of us grew up in Canada as uninvited guests, misinformed about Canadian history and the settler-colonial project of expansion. It’s 2019, and we refuse a willful ignorance, and take seriously the responsibility dealt to all Canadians by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to learn about Canada’s legacy of colonial violence. We recognize the pattern of the RCMP’s role in expanding Canadian influence over Indigenous peoples’ lands for the purpose of resource extraction. We are horrified by the violence of last week and the RCMP’s continued harassment of your people, and troubled by the exclusion zones erected to keep the press from reporting and Wet’suwet’en citizens from returning to their homes....

Wet’suwet’en solidarity actions continue from coast to coast to coast

January 30, 2019

On January 7, 2019 militarized RCMP invaded and occupied unceded Wet'suwet'en territories to try to forcibly clear a path for a fracked gas pipeline owned by Coastal Gaslink (TransCanada), arresting 14 Indigenous land defenders. The temporary agreement that was reached has since been breached as the company has illegally destroyed traplines of two different clans of the Wet'suwet'en Nation.

But Wet'suwet'en land defenders have been fighting to protect their land and sovereignty for decades -- including the 1997 Delgamuukw-Gisday’wa court case and the Unist'ot'en Camp that has blocked pipelines and healed the land since 2009 -- and they will not stop here.

Council of Canadians supporters and chapter activists have been taking part in solidarity actions from coast to coast to coast, and there are many more planned. Find an upcoming event near you here, and find more ways to stand in solidarity via the Wet'suwet'en Strong Supporter Toolkit that has been released....

A round dance in solidarity with Wet'suwet'en blocks an intersection in Edmonton on January 22. Photo by Abdul Malik.

Colonial frontlines in the city: urban Indigenous organizing

In so-called Canada, urban Indigenous organizers are re-energizing a decades-old struggle by redefining Indigenous sovereignty in the city streets.

“I brought you all some water,” I said to the ragtag crew of six holding our “All Nations Unite With Wet’suwet’en” banner across the lane of semi-truck traffic heaving out of the Port of Vancouver. We had been standing, rotating positions, for five hours now.

A hundred feet away, 200 people formed a square around the intersection of Hastings Street and Clark Drive, blocking semis, buses, and drivers headed to the glass towers of downtown. At the center of the intersection, Elders from local nations sang and drummed. With a pivot of their feet, they honored the four directions: north, south, east, and west.

I walked back to the intersection and stood with the man from yesterday’s march. He had been making his way through the crowd, offering people sage for smudging, a common cleansing ceremony. He held out his hands.

“I have to go soon. I didn’t smudge you yet. I want to give you this.” His hands held the abalone shell, the burning medicine, and feathers. Then, he looked me steadily in the eye and said, “I see you. We see you.”

Tears blurred my vision. I brought the smudge bowl to the table under the tent and cleared away bags of chips and plastic containers of muffins. I smudged. The medicine drifted through the air, and Dennis, the man from Moricetown on the Wet’suwet’en nation, walked away, toward the east. I held the feathers until, exhausted and triumphant, we marched out of the intersection as the winter dusk fell in the late afternoon.

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Urban Natives in solidarity with Wet’suwet’en

In between these two tendencies, I have quietly fought to carve out space for urban Natives to make connections with our cousins and comrades at Wet’suwet’en, and elsewhere. In Vancouver, I have been organizing with an ad hoc coalitional group that includes both settlers and Indigenous people. We come from different organizations and different politics and backgrounds. Our greatest shared point of unity is the political principle of Indigenous sovereignty, and a belief, different as it may be given our social and historical positions, in our responsibility to respond to this moment of colonial attack on Indigenous sovereignty in the streets.

Our work responds to two challenges: one is to create a place in Indigenous sovereignty movements to ensure that land defense politics also see the city as land; the second is to find a place for Indigenous struggles within class-based urban grassroots movements, which tend to elide the very real forces of colonialism that also structure the city.

In addition to my involvement with Wet’suwet’en solidarity organizing, I have been a member for the past seven years in an anti-capitalist and anti-colonial organization, Alliance Against Displacement. Our community organizing work has tended to focus on low-income struggles, homeless tent cities, and renter’s struggles. More recently we have started a campaign led by trans women called Bread, Roses and Hormones and a campaign against the police in the suburb of Surrey, called Anti-Police Surrey.

From the first years of being involved with Alliance Against Displacement, the urban Indigenous people within the group have wanted to start an urban Indigenous campaign. We have yearned to do this, ached over it, spent many hours dedicated to theorizing what an urban Indigenous campaign would look like in the second decade of the 21st century. We met with homeless Indigenous people in tent cities. We held talking circles for self-identified Indigenous people in Vancouver. It was hard to find the spark that could sustain a movement, and that is ultimately what we hoped to build through a campaign.

In the past two months of organizing Wet’suwet’en solidarity actions and support in Vancouver, I have felt a shift. We urban Native people are in the streets blocking ports, rail lines, speaking freely about our right to our land, our sovereignty, our nationhood. We are drumming and singing unapologetically, leading marches of thousands of people, some of us dressed in our traditional regalia happily standing beside some of us dressed in jeans and Wu-Tang sweatshirts. We are meeting each other spontaneously in the streets, building connections, and sharing politics. We are connecting with political elders, like Ray Bobb, who was involved with the Native Alliance for Red Power in the 1960s and 70s in Vancouver. We are meeting youth, like the young Stó:lô woman Sii-am, who spoke in the whipping wind and pouring rain just after we shut down a major transportation route in downtown Vancouver one evening.

While the violence against Wet’suwet’en people, and Wet’suwet’en land, is yet another mournful example of colonialism in Canada, I also see great potential in this moment. Urban Native people are being catalyzed through the Wet’suwet’en assertion of sovereignty. We are rekindling our voices, hearing new voices, developing a more explicit politics of sovereignty that takes us into the streets.

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'We're showing our presence': Group marches in Halifax for Indigenous rights

The Macdonald Bridge in Halifax was closed to traffic for about an hour Saturday afternoon — but it didn't mean the bridge was quiet.

About 100 people took part in an Indigenous rights march, walking from Dartmouth to Halifax over the bridge.

"You can take up the whole road," organizer Suzanne Patles called out to the crowd, who cheered and spread out in response.

The group sang songs, played drums and chanted loudly: "Water is life, respect Indigenous rights."

Several people donned purple T-shirts with the words "Stop violence against Indigenous women," while others carried banners and signs which read "Indigenous rights matter" and "No justice on stolen land."

Many of the signs were in solidarity with the Wet'suwet'en First Nation, where 14 people were arrested last month for protesting a planned natural gas pipeline in British Columbia.

Members of the Wet'suwet'en Nation have also alleged that Coastal GasLink has unnecessarily destroyed traplines and bulldozed tents on their land....

B.C. Oil and Gas Commission warns Coastal GasLink over pipeline construction

Coastal GasLink must submit a notice of construction at least 48 hours before it starts work under its permit to build a pipeline that is opposed by some members of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation, the B.C. Oil and Gas Commission said.

The commission has warned the Calgary-based company after it received complaints from the Office of the Wet’suwet’en that alleged that Coastal GasLink engaged in construction without an archaeological impact assessment and also destroyed traplines and tents.

A letter from the commission dated Thursday says Coastal GasLink didn’t submit the required notification on Jan. 22.

Hereditary Chief Na’Moks said the 48-hour notice won’t help because the process isn’t being followed.

“There is no consultation with us,” he said.

The ideal step would be to go back to the drawing board and talk to the proper rights and titles holders, he said, adding that it should be the province and federal governments consulting with the Indigenous people, not industry....

Following Illegal Bulldozing By CGL Supporters Responded With Solidarity Actions  At Multiple MLA Offices

Urban Indigenous Supporters and Allies rally outside Minister of the Environment George Heyman's office Feb 4 after staff lock doors. But he got the message.

Supporters have forced BC Minister of Energy, Mines and Petroleum, Michelle Mungall, to indefinitely close her Nelson office.

Archaeology Branch and BCOGC Trespass on Unist’ot’en Territory, Steal Artifacts

On Friday, February 15, inspectors from the Archaeology Branch of the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations along with the BC Oil and Gas Commission trespassed on Unist’ot’en yintah (territory). They did not stop to go through the required Free, Prior and Informed Consent protocol, and thus had no consent to enter the territory. At no point did they inform Unist’ot’en spokespeople or chiefs of their presence or intentions. We were not able to witness their inspection of the site or notify professional archaeologists advising us on this matter. According to a member of the police Division Liaison Team,

While unattended and unobserved by Unist’ot’en members and hereditary chiefs, they removed stone tools that Unist’ot’en supporters had left in situ. They trespassed, tampered with an archaeological site, and stole gifts from the ancestors of this territory....

Coastal GasLink Ordered To Cease Work on Unist’ot’en Trapline Due to Non-Compliance With Permits

An inspection by the Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) has found Coastal GasLink Pipeline Ltd. (CGL) to be in “non compliance” with three conditions of their environmental assessment certificate. The EAO has requested that CGL “immediately cease activities” within the trapline registered to our Hereditary Chief Knedebeas (Warner William) that may adversely affect the trapline’s use.

The BCEAO has found that Coastal GasLink failed to provide the required six months of advance notice for construction activities affecting our trapline, and additionally failed to conduct required site habitat assessments before beginning work.

CGL has been ordered to “not resume activities that may affect” the use of this trapline until June 12, 2019, or until the trap \line is no longer in use due to seasonal restrictions.

Thus far, Coastal GasLink has ignored the EAO cease and desist order for Dark House territory. Despite delivery of the stop-work order on Wednesday of this week, CGL contractors continued to block access to our traplines, and were operating bulldozers and excavators within meters of our active traps on Wednesday and Thursday.....

..good for the teachers. bravo!

From the BCTeachers Federation:

Solidarity with the hereditary chiefs and Wet’suwet’en people
That the BCTF support and stand in solidarity with the hereditary chiefs and Wet’suwet’en people in respecting sovereignty over their land.

Public actions on climate change
That the Federation encourage members to attend major public actions such as marches, rallies, and demonstrations organized by groups that are geared toward raising awareness about climate change, global warming, and the deleterious impacts of the fossil fuel industry on the environment, our waterways, and our coast lines.

First, we acknowledge those before us who brought forward resolutions to protect the land, water, animals, and the places we live, work, and play. We do this on all the unceded territories across British Columbia.

We are using the BCTF Aboriginal Lens to frame our perspective as an organization and to balance the needs of the membership with the ethical imperative to decolonize. The Aboriginal Lens includes the following seven elements: respect, relationship-building, relevance, responsibility, reciprocity, reconciliation, and resilience. As an organization representing 43,000 members, it is important to be informed about multiple knowledge systems, diverse cultures, and perspectives.

The BCTF is aware of the complex colonial history we have all inherited, and we are mindful of the fact that the Federation is in the early stages of decolonizing our thinking and processes. We also believe that every member is on their own individual journey and at various stages of learning and understanding.

The BCTF has adopted the Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action, and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People provides us with a compass to do no harm and collectively mitigate the legacy of Canada’s attempted genocide of Aboriginal people. We have worked tirelessly with the BCTF Aboriginal Education Advisory Committee and the BCTF Aboriginal Education Association to recognize, interrupt, and decolonize our collective history.

We work in partnership with the First Nations Education Steering Committee and other provincial education organizations to improve Aboriginal students’ experiences and success in school. Recently, the BCTF was a signatory to a renewed protocol with First Nations leadership in BC, along with all of the other affiliates of the BCFED......

Democracy Now! Speaks to Unist’ot’en member Dr. Karla Tait on RCMP Violence

We speak with Karla Tait, a member of the Unist’ot’en House Group of the Gilseyhu Clan. Dr. Tait is also the director of clinical programming for the Unist’ot’en Healing Centre.

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Wet'suwet'en Access Point

Shortage of work in the north is a constructed fallacy. Every sector is seeing a shortage of skilled workers. We do not need short term, boom and bust jobs in a fossilized industry.

We need a strong, sustainable, localized economy that cares for our people, land, air, and most importantly - WATER. It’s not only within our reach, it is adamantly necessary for our future!

Lack of skilled workers threatens growth in the north

It turns out LNG Canada has no requirement to hire locally

Yesterday in the legislature Bill 10, Income Tax Amendment Act, 2019 was being debated at committee stage.

As I noted during my second reading speech, if enacted, this bill would repeal the LNG Income Tax Act as amendedin April 2015, as well as the Liquefied Natural Gas Project Agreements Act. The bill also creates yet another tax credit for the natural gas sector.

During committee deliberations yesterday I took the opportunity to unpack an outrageous government claim that LNG Canada would be committed to hiring locals. Well to no surprise to those of us who have been following this for a while, there is no such requirement. In fact, and further, government has no tools at its disposal to insist that LNG Canada preferentially hire British Columbians during the construction phase.

Below I reproduce the video and text of my exchange with the Finance Minister.

We will resume committee stage debates today.

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A. Weaver: I’ve been listening quite attentively, trying to get some information with respect to the jobs, because I have clearly witnessed the same language that was emanated from government, as well as LNG Canada. “We’re going to be hiring British Columbians.”

I know for a fact that right now Boskalis is dredging in Kitimat, and I know for a fact that Boskalis uses a Newfoundland company to bring in employees. That is a distance from LNG Canada, and I know for a fact that those employees are not from British Columbia. I know for a fact that those employees that were from British Columbia did not last very long on the Boskalis dredge because they were summarily fired for raising safety issues.

I come back to what the member for Abbotsford West was suggesting. Is the minister saying that she has no mechanism at all to ensure that any of these jobs are actually for British Columbia citizens other than the goodwill of LNG Canada because they said they’re going to try?....

Wet’suwet’en hereditary chief: 'Reconciliation is not at the barrel of a gun'

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The office of Crown-Indigenous Relations said in a statement to National Observer that it continues to work to renew Canada’s relationship with Indigenous Peoples, “creating one based on the recognition of rights, respect, cooperation and partnership.” Canada has acted to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples while acknowledging that far more must be done to facilitate its complete implementation, the statement read.

But Na’moks says that the UN Declaration can only be implemented and upheld by the Indigenous Peoples. If you allow the government to tell you what the declaration is, “you’re actually under their umbrella.”

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'What the hell did we do except be Wet’suwet’en?'

“They want to break down all these barriers which they constructed. They want to talk about reconciliation? Well, I don’t’ know if I ever want to use that word again. My definition: to reconcile must be two guilty parties coming together. What the hell did we do except be Wet’suwet’en? Not once did we break our law. They said the people arrested were being civil disobedient, well they were being obedient to our law.”

On April 2 another Wets’uwet’en Clan announced plans to build a new barrier to the CGL pipeline in its territory. The Likhts’amisyu Clan wrote in a statement that construction in its territory would begin at the end of April to assert their sovereignty and stymie CGL by blocking them at multiple points with resistance camps. "It is important that people realize that this fight is far from over," the statement said.

Na’moks stands with them. The Wets’uwet’en people are willing to fight to the end, he said. “I won’t give up on our land and the Wets’uwet’en.”

"Coastal GasLink is aware of social media discussion regarding the construction of new structures in areas near the Coastal GasLink right-of-way," the company said in the statement to National Observer. "We continue to progress our preliminary construction activities in accordance with the permits and authorizations received from the Environmental Assessment Office and the BC Oil and Gas Commission."

Na’moks is scheduled to travel to New York in April to address the United Nations permanent forum on Indigenous issues. He said he plans to report violations of Indigenous rights and title, including the RCMP arrests and government failure to secure free, prior and informed consent to allow the project on Wet’suwt’en territory.

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RCMP Arrest Unist'ot'en Supporter

SHARE WIDELY - One Unist’ot’en supporter was arrested this morning at approximately 9:45am for enforcing provisions of a temporary access agreement with Coastal GasLink. The Access Protocol Agreement between CGL and Unist’ot’en/Dark House states that the corporation or its contractors will provide at least 24 hours of advanced notice for any attempted entrances.

This access agreement was created in an attempt to secure information on who is accessing the territory, and to protect the safety of, and prevent arrest of, Unist'ot'en house members and supporters while the interlocutory injunction hearing is settled in the Supreme Court.

Our supporter was unlawfully arrested for enforcing this agreement, while CGL's contractor violated the protocol and attempted to enter without adequate notice. Today the RCMP have arrested the person complying with the injunction and not those breaking it.

Unist'ot'en in no way, shape, or form consent to Coastal GasLink's invasion or destruction of our unceded territories. The reality is that CGL and its contractors are trespassers in violation of Wet’suwet’en, Provincial and Federal law.

This is a blatant corporate bullying by the federal government against a sovereign Indigenous nation. We need our supporters to join us on the ground, screen our film in your locations, and donate now to the Legal Fund.

UPDATE: She has been released with NO CHARGES. Statment Here: https://www.facebook.com/unistoten/videos/442550283068282/