..when a company wants to set up shop in canada there is a process. they reach out to the leadership. they don't go to paladin or pondering and ask what they want and then proceed if the answer is yes.
..there is also a process when it comes to wetʼsuwetʼen territory. title holders are the authority. the title holders say no pipeline. an offer for a different route was rejected. so it's back to no. this no has been supported by feasts or pot-latches..which are equalling to the voice of the people..since 2011.
..that central issue has and is still being ignored. it doesn't matter what arguments you present in this thread if you ignore this. different viewpoints within the nation is an internal matter that gets exploited on a regular basis by govs, corps and others.
The Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs are willing to accept an alternate route that still goes through their territory. That suggests their issue is not climate change.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/wetsuweten-coastal-gasli...
"The Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs provided alternative routes to Coastal GasLink that would have been acceptable to them as a pipeline corridor," he said in a statement last month.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/wetsuweten-coastal-gasli...
Being indigenous doesn't mean someone is an environmentalist. Indigenous peoples did not start the climate change battle and they don't dominate it.
From "the Leap"
This leap must begin by respecting the inherent rights and title of the original caretakers of this land. Indigenous communities have been at the forefront of protecting rivers, coasts, forests and lands from out-of-control industrial activity. We can bolster this role, and reset our relationship, by fully implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
That includes their right to accept development.
In this case they are not against the pipeline just the particular route that it takes.
Yes companies do exploit differences between indigenous peoples but it is the Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs that are willing to accept a different route. I'm pretty sure the ones that want the pipeline would also be fine with an alternative route.
I am against the pipeline no matter what the route is. My issue is appropriation of indigenous voices through projecting views on them that they themselves are not expressing. Climate change is not the reason they are opposing the route of the pipeline.