{"id":3435,"date":"2020-02-11T16:14:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-11T21:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/?p=3435"},"modified":"2020-02-11T16:14:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T21:14:35","slug":"pipelines-violate-indigenous-rights-and-threaten-the-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/pipelines-violate-indigenous-rights-and-threaten-the-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Pipelines violate Indigenous rights and threaten the planet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As resistance grows against the Coastal GasLink pipeline and\nthe massive RCMP invasion of Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en territories, the Central Committee of\nthe Communist Party of Canada, meeting over the Feb. 8-9 weekend in Toronto,\nsends greetings of solidarity to all who are in struggle today for Indigenous\nrights and environmental justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The drive by the Canadian state and big energy monopolies to\ncomplete the Coastal GasLink and TransMountain pipeline projects is a disaster\non every level – a staggering attack on Indigenous sovereignty, a threat to the\ncoastal and global environment, and a potentially massive economic blunder. In\nthe wake of this week\u2019s RCMP arrests and court rulings, the Central Committee\nof the Communist Party of Canada stands with the Indigenous land defenders and\nwater protectors and their environmentalist allies in the struggle to block\nthese dangerous projects. We demand policies that put the needs of people and\nthe environment first, and an end to the insatiable greed of the big energy\nmonopolies which endanger the future of our planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The police invasion of Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en territories and the wave\nof arrests which began on Feb. 6 are a definitive signal that despite their\nclaims to support \u201creconciliation\u201d with First Nations, the provincial and\nfederal governments are determined to push through the Coastal GasLink pipeline\nto supply fracked liquid natural gas to the LNG Canada plant in Kitimat. This\n$6.6 billion project threatens the lands and rivers which are crucial to the\ntraditional way of life of the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en people, especially the viability of\ntheir salmon fisheries. These developments would wipe out the landmark victory\nwon in the Supreme Court of Canada\u2019s Delgamuukw ruling in 1997, which\nestablished the existence of Aboriginal title over portions of 58,000 square\nkilometres in north-central B.C. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similarly, the latest court rulings in favour of the TMX\nproject establish that the terms of the UN Declaration on the Rights of\nIndigenous Peoples \u2013 in particular the right to free, prior and informed\nconsent over economic development projects on their traditional territories \u2013 will\ninevitably be put aside whenever the big energy monopolies propose new\nextraction and export projects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latest arrests and court rulings raise another spectre \u2013\nthat the deepening climate change crisis caused by rising greenhouse gas\nemissions will not be a factor considered by governments which continue to\nsupport the interests of big oil. The B.C. government has offered LNG Canada $6\nbillion in incentives, and the Trudeau government has offered $275 million in\nsubsidies, as well as purchasing the TMX pipeline project at a cost of $4\nbillion. Canada is the fourth-largest producer of crude oil and the\nfifth-largest producer of natural gas in the world. These projects will\nsubstantially increase Canada\u2019s carbon footprint, breaking previous pledges to\nreduce emissions. Canada is becoming a global carbon criminal, even as the RCMP\ninvades Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en lands to enforce court injunctions against those who seek\nto defend the environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also point out that energy extraction and export projects are increasingly likely to lose money under the changing conditions of international markets. Many countries are heavily committed to the shift towards renewable energy, including key markets such as China. The current price for LNG is estimated to be about one-third the production and distribution costs associated with the LNG Canada-Coastal GasLink project, for example, and oil prices are not expected to rise to the level needed to make TMX expansion profitable. No amount of rhetoric by premiers and prime ministers can change world energy prices; dumping more oil and LNG into the glut on global markets will not change this reality. On the contrary, pumping billions of taxpayer dollars into big energy projects simply makes it more difficult to invest in renewable energy, mass transit, and basic human needs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Communist Party of Canada extends our full solidarity to the Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en and to other First Nations struggling to block these projects. We will continue to call for a People\u2019s Energy Policy for Canada, based on genuine acceptance of the terms of UNDRIP, public ownership of the energy industry, and dramatic steps to cut Canada\u2019s carbon footprint. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Central Committee, Communist Party of Canada, Feb 9, 2020<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As resistance grows against the Coastal GasLink pipeline and the massive RCMP invasion of Wet\u2019suwet\u2019en territories, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Canada, meeting over the Feb. 8-9 weekend in Toronto, sends greetings of solidarity to all who are in struggle today for Indigenous rights and environmental justice.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,152,151,150,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aboriginal-struggle","category-environmental-struggles","category-police-violence","category-treaty-and-inherent-rights","category-undrip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3437,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435\/revisions\/3437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communist-party.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}