Posted by admin on Aug 27th, 2007
By Rob Annandale. Published: August 27, 2007, TheTyee.ca
Protestors opposed to a proposed coalbed methane project in a remote and sacred corner of the province could be in a Vancouver courtroom later this week after lawyers for oil and gas giant Royal Dutch Shell filed an injunction seeking to have them forcibly removed from the site last Thursday. The dispute is the latest skirmish in a lengthy battle over mining and gas drilling in northwest B.C. Local First Nations and environmental groups have repeatedly clashed with companies hoping to cash in on the area’s rich bounty of natural resources.
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Posted by admin on Aug 24th, 2007
August 22 (Iskut, BC): Members of the Iskut First Nation blockaded Royal Dutch Shell yesterday, preventing the company from gaining access to the Sacred Headwaters (Klappan) area to resume its coalbed methane project. The blockaders are opposed to Shell’s project because they fear it will damage their traditional territory, which they depend on for hunting and trapping.
First Nations elders from Iskut first evicted Shell from their territory in 2005. Shell cancelled last summer’s drilling program due to widespread opposition. Last month, 14 environmental groups including Greenpeace, Sierra Club, NRDC, and the David Suzuki Foundation sent a letter to Shell urging the company to back off its coalbed methane plan in the Sacred Headwaters. To view pictures from the blockade, click here.
Posted by admin on Aug 11th, 2007
Letters of respect and support can be sent to:
Shawn Brant
Quinte Detention Centre, 89 Richmond Blvd, Napanee, Ontario, K7R 3S1
Bail denied for native protester Shawn Brant
CanWest News Service Published: Friday, August 10, 2007NAPANEE, Ont. – Shawn Brant, whose road blockades in June sparked the closure of crucial highways and rail lines in Ontario, has been sent back to jail after his appeal for bail was denied in Ontario Court on Friday. The native protester had been applying for bail so he could return to his family after spending more than a month in custody at the Quinte provincial detention centre in Napanee, Ont.
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Posted by admin on Jul 6th, 2007
The Intelligencer By Samantha Craggs, Thursday, July 05, 2007
NAPANEE — Not even the honour of Shawn Brant’s mother could keep the Mohawk activist out of jail on new charges of mischief and breach of recognizance. Brant’s mother Deanna, a retired teacher, took the stand at Brant’s bail hearing Thursday, offering a $50,000 surety that Brant would not plan, incite or participate in illegal protests between now and his court date. But Judge DK Kirkland denied bail anyway.
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Posted by admin on Jun 29th, 2007
CBC News
Armed Mohawk protesters barricaded a highway in eastern Ontario Thursday night, vowing to set up even more blockades as a national aboriginal day of action begins at midnight. About 40 protesters parked a schoolbus on Highway 2, near Deseronto, just before 9 p.m. ET, forcing traffic to stop and turn around at the location, which is about 50 kilometres west of Kingston.
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