Northern Gateway
A Royal Canadian Mounted Police Report Said Anti-Oil Activists Were National Security Threats
We spoke to some environmental and aboriginal activists to see if they were worried about a coming crackdown.
Photos from Inside the Unceded Unist'ot'en Camp
The people of Unist'ot'en are firmly against pipeline development, but their territory sits smack dab in the middle of the Northern Gateway construction plan. Grady Mitchell spent time there, and sent us these photos.
Unist’ot’en Camp Evicted a Fracked Gas Pipeline Crew from their Territories
VICE Canada's Michael Toledano is embedded with a camp in Unist'ot'en, a pipeline blockade on unsurrendered indigenous land in the interior of BC. Here, he details the aftermath of a peaceful eviction of a pipeline crew, and the inner-workings of the...
The Supreme Court's Decision to Award the Tsilhqot’in First Nation Their Rightful Land Could Be a Game Changer
The most important court case over aboriginal rights in Canada’s history ended with a landmark decision from the Supreme Court of Canada, which granted declaration of aboriginal title to more than 1,700 square kilometres of land to the Tsilhqot’in...
The Huron-Wendat Nation Is Standing Up to Enbridge and the Ontario Government’s Billion Dollar Development Dreams
The Huron-Wendat Nation have indicated their intentions to file court injunctions against both Enbridge's proposed half a billion gas pipeline expansion in the GTA, and the Ontario government's multi-billion dollar expansion of Highway 407 East. With...
The View from Unist’ot’en: A Camp that Stands Firmly in the Path of Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Pipeline
VICE Canada's own Michael Toledano is currently in the Unist'ot'en camp, which is forbidden to enter by anyone who is not approved by the camp. This unsurrended First Nations land sits directly in the path of the Northern Gateway pipeline.
Harper Approving the Northern Gateway Pipeline Should Surprise No One
The Harper government approved the construction of the dual Northern Gateway pipelines yesterday, but the Feds and Enbridge are far from stepping on the gas.
Canadian Scientists Are Not Cool with the Northern Gateway Pipeline
Canadian scientists and the Harper government aren't getting along again.
'No Enbridge' Might Have Been The Last Peaceful Northern Gateway Protest
Despite sustained rallying from the public, the Feds will likely approve Northern Gateway in June. According to some, that approval may lead to acts of civil disobedience and more direct forms of protest. We visited an anti-Gateway protest in Vancouver...
Critics Say Canada Shouldn’t Have Taken Humpback Whales Off the Endangered Species List
Despite Canada's Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife's position that the humpback whale is totally safe, many believe that the decision to downgrade the species' endangered status was a political move to make Enbridge's Northern Gateway...