Tsleil-Waututh pipeline challenge on hold

The Tsleil-Waututh Nation legal challenge around the proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion has been put on hold, for now.

Tsleil-Waututh had its second day in the Federal Court of Appeal on Jan. 22 in its challenge against the National Energy … Read More

Treaties could be LNG deal-breaker

A Snuneymuxw lawyer and scholar is questioning the Steelhead LNG’s project based on the Pre-Confederation Treaty rights of Saanich area First Nations including Malahat Nation itself.

Douglas S. White is interim director of the Centre for Pre-Confederation Treaties and Reconciliation … Read More

Halalt chief has BIG plans for pulp mill site

“We still have hope for this place,” Chief James Thomas says as he looks at the smoking stacks and the pile of hog fuel in front of the Catalyst pulp and paper mill in Crofton.

The pulp mill is in … Read More

Coast Salish just say ‘NO’ to Salish Sea oil transport

The Coast Salish nation unanimously agreed last summer to work together to address the transport of crude oil shipments, by rail and sea, through their territories.

“We live in a pollution-based economy, and for hundreds of years there have been … Read More

Stern critic of LNG deal

One of the sternest critics of the Malahat/Steelhead LNG project is Adam Olsen, a member of Tsartlip First Nation and the interim-leader of the BC Green Party.

“I grew up fishing next Bamberton and on the docks in Brentwood and … Read More

Tsawwassen says ‘NO’ to LNG

‘A well informed choice’ says Chief

Members of the Tsawwassen Nation have voted down plans to build a liquefied natural gas export facility in their lands.

Leaders said in November that they would let the nation’s members decide whether or … Read More

Tsleil-Waututh ‘confident’ on stopping pipeline plan

A legal expert says a number of recent events could affect whether Tsleil-Waututh Nation will be successful in halting National Energy Board’s review of a proposed pipeline expansion project in its territory.

Kinder Morgan’s $5.4 billion plan would nearly triple … Read More

Coast Salish in Paris

While the massive COP21 UN climate change conference was happening in Paris, France, last month, Indigenous people from around the world were having their own gathering in a chateau north of the city.

Reuben George of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation’s anti-pipeline … Read More

Sliammon Lake could bring power and water

Even before the effective date of the Tla’amin Treaty in April, the nation has announced that it hopes to become a power in the Powell River region.

In early January, the Sliammon Development Corporation (SDC) said it was looking at … Read More

The animals are telling us…

Steven Point of Sto:lo Nation, was chief commissioner of the BC Treaty Commission, when he said these words at the 2007 Coast Salish Gathering in Cowichan:

“Something is happening. The animals are telling us… We’re at a critical time as … Read More