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</div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">guk</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">proud Boys and other far-right groups raise millions via Christian funding site</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This article is more than 5 months old</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Revealed: groups banned from other sites fundraising on GiveSendGo as data breach identifies high-dollar donors</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">After Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio was arrested on 4 January, a fundraiser billed as a ‘defense fund’ made $113,000 in just four days.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Jason Wilson</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">@jason_a_w</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sat 10 Apr 2021 0</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A data breach from Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo has revealed that millions of dollars have been raised on the site for far-right causes and groups, many of whom are banned from raising funds on other platforms.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Chats indicate white supremacists are aiming to leverage the group’s success in recruiting disillusioned supporters of former President Donald Trump and the ‘QAnon’ conspiracy movement.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">[How the far-right group ‘Oath Enforcers’ plans to harass political enemies</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Read more]</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It also identifies previously anonymous high-dollar donors to far-right actors, some of whom enjoy positions of wealth, power or public responsibility.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Some of the biggest beneficiaries have been members of groups such as the Proud Boys, designated as a terrorist group in Canada, many of whose fundraising efforts were directly related to the 6 January attack on the United States Capitol.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The breach, shared with journalists by transparency group Distributed Denial of Secrets, shows the site was used for a wide range of legitimate charitable purposes, such as crowdfunding medical bills, aid projects and religious missions.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">But the site’s permissive stance towards far-right actors meant groups who had been banned from other fundraising platforms and payment processors following episodes of hate speech and violence have also used the platform.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Across at least 11 crowdfunding campaigns associated with the Proud Boys, members of the group, including some now facing conspiracy charges related to the Capitol attack, raised over $375,000. Some of these fundraisers netted large amounts of money in a short period.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">After the Proud Boys chairman, Enrique Tarrio, was arrested on 4 January on charges related to firearms and the vandalism of a black church at a previous rally, a fundraiser billed as a “defense fund” made $113,000 in just four days.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A large proportion of that money came from a number of high-dollar donors who elected to be anonymous on the website, but whose identifying details were nevertheless preserved by GiveSendGo.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The anonymous donations included $1,000 from an email address associated with Gabe Carrera, a Florida-based personal injury lawyer who bills himself as the attorney who rides. Another $1,000 which came to Tarrio was associated with an email address belonging to Paul C Gill, a Honolulu-based Hawaiian Airlines employee and former pilot who has previously made donations to Donald Trump’s campaigns and to the Republican party, and who has offered public political commentary in the form of letters to the editor in local newspapers.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Of Tarrio’s donors, none immediately responded to requests for comment except for Gerardo G Gonzalez, who anonymously donated $1,000 to Tarrio on 7 January.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Public records show that Florida-based Gonzalez is a former pharmacist who owns at least six properties in Miami Beach and Homestead, Florida. His apartments, apartment buildings and an acreage lot have an assessed value in excess of $2.4m, and in prior decades has sold other properties worth millions more.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In a telephone conversation, Gonzalez said that his support of the Proud Boys was motivated by his belief that “there is no systemic racism in this country”, and his opposition to “BLM and Antifa” who he said represented “the real extremism” in the United States. He also used derogatory terms for Latinos and Democrats.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Other Proud Boy fundraisers raised large amounts, and attracted a similar range of high-value anonymous donations.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div>Following the Capitol riots, a fundraiser in the name of “Medical Assistance to DC Proud Boy victims” made $106,107 on just 6 and 7 January. One anonymous donation for $5,000 was associated with an email address belonging to Ou Yin Lu, a Hacienda Heights, California, resident and businesswoman who had previously donated $14,640 to Trump’s campaign funds, the Republican National Committee and a former California state representative Bob Huff during the 2020 campaign funding cycle.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Also, after charges were laid on the Proud Boys organizer Joe Biggs for his alleged role in the Capitol attack, an anonymous donation for $1,000 came from an email address belonging to a New York woman whose social media accounts list her as a state-employed special education teacher. Overall, Biggs raised over $6,000 on the site.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Other Proud Boy-related fundraisers included one for North Carolina Proud Boy, Jeremy Bertino, also known as Noble Beard, who was stabbed at a contentious rally in Washington DC on 12 December. Between 16 and 19 December, the effort netted $61,355.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Several parallel fundraisers sought to finance travel and equipment for Proud Boys who sought to attend the 6 January rally in person.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Two separate fundraisers asked patrons to fund protective gear and communications equipment for regional Proud Boys chapters, raising $4,876 and $12,900 respectively.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Later, fundraisers were mounted in the name of individual activists who are now facing serious charges arising from the events of 6 January.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">One that netted $6,475 in just one day was for the benefit of the Washington state Proud Boy and national elder Ethan Nordean also known as Rufio Panman. Another for Nick Ochs, the self-described leader of the Proud Boys’ Hawaiian chapter, brought in $19,687 between 8 and 13 January.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Candyce Kelshall, the president of the Canadian Association for Security and Intelligence Studies-Vancouver, who at at Simon Fraser University researches violent transnational social movements, said that far-right crowdfunding on GiveSendGo was just “the tip of the iceberg”, and similar efforts were happening across up to 54 other crowdfunding sites that her research had revealed.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">She said, however, that GiveSendGo was “particularly insidious” due to its presentation of such crowdfunding in the guise of religion-based charity.</div></div><div>
</div><div></div> =119 portland, lytton BC?<a href="https://www.alternet.org/2021/07/heatwave-canada/">https://www.alternet.org/2021/07/heatwave-canada/</a>==<h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; line-height: 1; padding: 0px;">TC Energy</h3><div class="hos-nominee-detail visibility-enabled" data-visibility-name="info-about" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.75s ease 0s;">Earlier this year, militarized police conducted a five-day raid, complete with assault rifles, snipers, dogs, sound cannons, and helicopters on Wet’suwet’en land and illegally evicted hereditary chiefs, land defenders, and matriarchs. The raid was an attempt to disrupt more than five years of resistance to the construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline slated to cut through Wet’suwet’en territories in British Columbia, Canada. The pipeline is being built by TC Energy, which is also building the Keystone XL pipeline. This follows a history of TC Energy disregarding Indigenous rights on top of exploitive and extractive practices that harm the environment.We nominate TC Energy for forcing an oil and gas pipelines through unceded Wet’suwet’en land after community elders and leaders objected to the project, continuing a pattern of trampling on Indigenous rights and fueling the climate crisis.</div><div class="news_label" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-transform: uppercase; margin-bottom: 10px;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">FEB 13, 2020</div><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box;" helvetica="Helvetica" neue="Neue" arial="Arial" sans-serif="sans-serif" margin="margin" px="px" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color"><a data-ga-action="Home: Story Headline" href="https://www.democracynow.org/2020/2/13/wet_suwet_en_territory_pipeline_opposition" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; border: 0px;">The Wet’suwet’en Fight Against New Pipeline Spreads Across Canada with Blockades & Occupations</a></h3><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2020/02/10/climate-justice-indigenous-solidarity-wetsuweten-rcmp-raids">https://www.desmogblog.com/2020/02/10/climate-justice-indigenous-solidarity-wetsuweten-rcmp-raids</a>no lnx many pix vid
Climate Justice and Indigenous Rights Advocates Rally in Solidarity With Wet'suwet'en People as RCMP Continue Raids
By Guest • Monday, February 10, 2020 - 11:54
On February 8, 2020, a Wet'suwet'en solidarity event stopped a Toronto train at Dufferin Street and Bartlett Avenue in Toronto.
By Julia Conley, Common Dreams. Originally published on Common Dreams under CC BY-SA 3.0 US.Indigenous rights supporters held solidarity actions across Canada over the weekend as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police continued their raids on Wet'suwet'en land in British Columbia.The Unist'ot'en Camp reported on its official Facebook page Sunday that at least 21 people had been arrested since Thursday, when, as Common Dreams reported, the RCMP conducted a violent pre-dawn raid to fulfill an injunction on behalf of Coastal GasLink, which aims to build a pipeline in Wet'suwet'en territory in northern British Columbia. The camp uploaded several videos over the weekend of the resistance to the police, who were reportedly set to meet with Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs Saturday to discuss reconciliation regarding the injunction, which was filed despite a long-standing Canadian Supreme Court decision stating the Wet'suwet'en had not given up their homeland in the province. The RCMP reportedly refused to attend the meeting after arriving late.According to Ricochet, the RCMP expanded its “exclusion zone” Saturday, taking control of most of the territory of the Gidimt'en, one of the five clans of the Wet'suwet'en.“The exclusion zone has been created by the RCMP to force Wet'suwet'en land defenders off our land,” the Unist'ot'en Camp said in a statement. “It is a colonial and criminalizing tool to illegally and arbitrarily extend RCMP authority onto our lands. The massive exclusion zone, completely under RCMP authoritarian discretion, falls outside the injunction area. Chiefs and Wet'suwet'en people are illegally being denied access to their own territories.”The neighboring Gitxsan Nation led a solidarity action on Saturday, blocking a rail line in protest of the RCMP's actions, the injunction, and the Canadian government's failure to intervene on behalf of the Wet'suwet'en people's rights.“The Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs and their house members have fought the forcible removal from their territories as they seek to protect their sovereign rights and protect the land, water and air,” Gitxsan hereditary chief Norman Stephens told Richochet. “If their rights are being trampled, our rights are being trampled.”Other rail blockades were reported across the country, and solidarity actions took the form of rallies and protests at government buildings in Canada as well as in the United States.Climate action leader Greta Thunberg also expressed support for the Wet'suwet'en on social media.“Indigenous rights equals climate justice,” Thunberg tweeted.=<a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/09/23/indigenous-climate-green-new-deal/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://theintercept.com/2019/09/23/indigenous-climate-green-new-deal/</a>
no lnxIndigenous People Are Already Working “Green Jobs” — but They’re Unrecognized and UnpaidNick EstesSeptember 23 2019, 4:46 a.m.[pix Catcher Cuts The Road, an Iraq War veteran, leads a protest march to a sacred burial ground at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota, Sept. 9, 2016. A federal judge on Friday denied the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's efforts to halt the construction of a pipeline skirting the northern edge of the reservation on Friday; on the same day, the government ordered a the pipeline company to pause its work. ]A GROWING CLIMATE consciousness has spurred popular support for a Green New Deal complete with calls for “green jobs” to aid in the transition away from fossil fuels. It’s a welcome development, but it’s also important to recognize the old labor of ecological stewardship — particularly that being carried out by Indigenous land defenders and Water Protectors.“There’s an idea that we’re out there as paid activists. Wouldn’t that be great?” Anne Spice, a Tlingit researcher and land defender who has been living at Unist’ot’en Camp for several years while finishing her doctoral degree, said with a chuckle.“There’s an idea that we’re out there as paid activists. Wouldn’t that be great?”Founded in 2010 on unceded Wet’suwet’en land, Unist’ot’en Camp, some 750 miles north of Vancouver, Canada, aims to block the Coastal Gas Link pipeline, known as CGL, which is being constructed by TC Energy, the firm formerly known as TransCanada. But that’s not the camp’s only purpose: It was also founded to help bring the land and the community back to health after a period of intense logging that threatened moose hunts and salmon runs, elements of a land-based economy threatened by the oil pipeline.“We are consistently doing the very thing CGL and RCMP” — the Royal Canadian Mounted Police — “are failing to do, which is ask for permission to enter territories and to gather and harvest,” Spice told me. It’s hard, meticulous work grounded in Indigenous culture and maintaining good relations, and not the quick techno-fixes some people are calling for in climate action.The sort of land defense undertaken in the camp opens up a larger discussion about what “green jobs” are already being performed by Indigenous peoples to save our Earth — and the kind of value we assign to them.[Climate CrimesRead Our Complete Coverage]
Similar to how women and non-men have been historically tasked with doing the unpaid labor of housework and child-rearing, the relationship Indigenous caretakers have with the land, water, air, and nonhuman world is typically not viewed as productive. The financial, service, industrial, or technology sectors usually define what counts as a “job” — and it’s frequently bound up with polluting. Rarely is Indigenous caretaking defined as work. Yet, like unwaged caregiving work, land defense and water protection are undervalued but necessary for the continuation of life on a planet teetering on collapse.Despite preserving the very elements needed to sustain life — such as clean air, water, and land — from settler states, repression against Indigenous peoples protecting their territories runs rampant.[RelatedOn the Front Lines of Bolsonaro’s War on the Amazon, Brazil’s Forest Communities Fight Against Climate Catastrophe<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Douglas(governor)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Douglas(governor)</a>Sir James Douglas <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Bath" title="Order of the Bath" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">KCB</a> (August 15, 1803 – August 2, 1877), was a Canadian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_fur_trade" title="North American fur trade" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">fur trader</a> and politician who became the 1st <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_British_Columbia" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor of British Columbia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Governor</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_of_British_Columbia" class="mw-redirect" title="Colony of British Columbia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Colony of British Columbia</a>. He is often credited as "The Father of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia" title="British Columbia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">British Columbia</a>". He started work at 16 for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_West_Company" title="North West Company" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">North West Company</a> and then the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson%27s_Bay_Company" title="Hudson's Bay Company" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Hudson's Bay Company</a>, becoming a high-ranking officer. From 1851 to 1864, he was Governor of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_of_Vancouver_Island" title="Colony of Vancouver Island" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Colony of Vancouver Island</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Douglas(governor)#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[1]</a> In 1858, he also became the first Governor of the Colony of British Columbia, in order to assert the authority of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Empire" title="British Empire" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">British Empire</a> during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraser_Canyon_Gold_Rush" title="Fraser Canyon Gold Rush" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Fraser Canyon Gold Rush</a>, which had the potential to turn the B.C. Mainland into an American state. He remained governor of both colonies until his retirement in 1864.<div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1;"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="direction: ltr; position: absolute; opacity: 0; z-index: -1; display: none;" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;">
</div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Douglas(governor)#Early_life" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1Early life</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Douglas(governor)#North_West_Company" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">1.1North West Company</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Douglas(governor)#Hudson's_Bay_Company" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2Hudson's Bay Company</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Douglas(governor)#Fort_Vancouver" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.1Fort Vancouver</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Douglas(governor)#Pugets_Sound_Agricultural_Company" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.2Pugets Sound Agricultural Company</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Douglas(governor)#Later_years_at_Fort_Vancouver" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">2.3Later years at Fort Vancouver</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Douglas(governor)#Fort_Victoria" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">3Fort Victoria</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Douglas(governor)#Governor_of_the_Colony_of_Vancouver_Island" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">4Governor of the Colony of Vancouver Island</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Douglas(governor)#Fraser_Canyon_Gold_Rush" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">5Fraser Canyon Gold Rush</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Douglas(governor)#The_Feud_with_Richard_Clement_Moody" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">6The Feud with Richard Clement Moody</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Douglas(governor)#Douglas's_Activities_as_Governor" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">7Douglas's Activities as Governor</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Douglas(governor)#Retirement_and_death" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">8Retirement and death</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Douglas(governor)#Places_named_for_Douglas" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">9Places named for Douglas</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Douglas(governor)#Citation" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">10Citation</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Douglas(governor)#Bibliography" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">11Bibliography</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Douglas(governor)#Further_reading" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">12Further reading</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Douglas(governor)#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">13External links</a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-family: " linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height">Early life[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Douglas(governor)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h2>James Douglas was born in 1803 in Demerara (later part of Guyana). His father was John Douglas, a Scottish planter and merchant from Glasgow, in business with three of his brothers. The Douglas family were part of "the business elite of Scotland". His uncle was Lieutenant-General Sir <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Douglas" title="Neil Douglas" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Neil Douglas</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander-in-Chief,Scotland" class="mw-redirect" title="Commander-in-Chief, Scotland" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Commander-in-Chief, Scotland</a>. His aunt was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cecilia_Douglas&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cecilia Douglas (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Cecilia Douglas</a>, a notable art collector. Through his paternal grandmother, James Douglas was related to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Andrew_Buchanan,1st_Baronet" title="Sir Andrew Buchanan, 1st Baronet" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Sir Andrew Buchanan, 1st Baronet</a>, diplomat.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Douglas(governor)#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a>His mother was Martha Ann (née Ritchie, later Telfer), who was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbadians" title="Barbadians" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Barbadian</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creole_peoples#Caribbean" title="Creole peoples" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Creole</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Douglas(governor)#cite_note-Adams,Adams2011-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Douglas(governor)#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a> Ritchie was classified as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_person_of_color" class="mw-redirect" title="Free person of color" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">free coloured</a>, which in that time and place meant someone of mixed African and European family history, who was not a slave.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Douglas(governor)#cite_note-Adams,Adams2011-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a> According to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_Canadian_Biography" title="Dictionary of Canadian Biography" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Dictionary of Canadian Biography</a>, the couple had three children together (Alexander, born 1801 or 1802; James, born 1803, and Cecilia, born 1812), but never formally married.In 1812, John Douglas returned to Scotland with his children and put James into school at Lanark to be educated. John married Jessie Hamilton in 1819, and had more children with her, making a second family. James went to school or was taught by a French Huguenot in Manchester, England, where he learned to speak and write in fluent French, which helped him in North America.<h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">North West Company[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Douglas(governor)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: North West Company" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>At the age of sixteen, James Douglas signed on to join the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_West_Company" title="North West Company" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">North West Company</a> (NWC), a major organization active in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_fur_trade" title="North American fur trade" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">North American fur trade</a>. He sailed from Liverpool for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lachine,Quebec" title="Lachine, Quebec" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Lachine</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Canada" title="Lower Canada" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Lower Canada</a>, in the spring of 1819. From here Douglas was assigned as a clerk at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_William,Ontario" title="Fort William, Ontario" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Fort William</a> in what is now <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder_Bay" title="Thunder Bay" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Thunder Bay</a>. The following year he was moved to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Ele-%C3%A0-la-Crosse" title="Île-à-la-Crosse" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Île-à-la-Crosse</a> on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churchill_River(Hudson_Bay)" title="Churchill River (Hudson Bay)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Churchill River</a> in what is now northern <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saskatchewan" title="Saskatchewan" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Saskatchewan</a>. The rival <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson%27s_Bay_Company" title="Hudson's Bay Company" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Hudson's Bay Company</a> was also active in this area, and Douglas was caught up in at least one argument with the fighting fur traders. At this post Douglas continued a policy of self-education by reading books brought from Britain and meeting with many First Nations people.<h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-family: " linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height">Hudson's Bay Company</h2><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable" style="font-style: italic; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Main article: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson%27s_Bay_Company" title="Hudson's Bay Company" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Hudson's Bay Company</a></div>
---In 1821 the NWC was merged into their powerful competitor, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson%27s_Bay_Company" title="Hudson's Bay Company" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Hudson's Bay Company</a> (HBC). Douglas' contract was placed onto the HBC's payroll. He quickly moved up the strict system where things or people are in separate levels of importance of the company. In 1825, he was put in charge of the founding of the Fort Dark red trading post in what is now northern <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta" title="Alberta" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Alberta</a>. He was next assigned at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_St.James" title="Fort St. James" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Fort St. James</a> on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Lake" title="Stuart Lake" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Stuart Lake</a>, headquarters of the Company's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Caledonia_District" class="mw-redirect" title="New Caledonia District" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">New Caledonia District</a>, roughly located within modern <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia" title="British Columbia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">British Columbia</a>. In 1827 he established <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_Lake(Fort_Connelly)" title="Bear Lake (Fort Connelly)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Fort Connolly</a> on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_Lake(Bear_River)" title="Bear Lake (Bear River)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Bear Lake</a>. The station was named after his manager <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Connolly(fur_trader)" title="William Connolly (fur trader)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">William Connolly</a>, who was impressed by Douglas' skills and viewed him favourably. Because of their close relations, Connolly agreed to Douglas marrying his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9tis_in_Canada" title="Métis in Canada" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Métis</a> daughter <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Douglas" title="Amelia Douglas" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Amelia Connolly</a>. Her mother was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cree" title="Cree" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Cree</a> and likely also Métis. Douglas and Amelia were married on 27 April 1828 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage%27%C3%A0_la_fa%C3%A7on_du_pays%27" title="Marriage 'à la façon du pays'" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">'à la façon du pays'</a>, a ceremony repeated almost a decade later at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Vancouver" title="Fort Vancouver" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Fort Vancouver</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Douglas(governor)#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a>...<h3 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; line-height: 1.6;">Later years at Fort Vancouver[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Douglas(governor)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Later years at Fort Vancouver" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">edit</a>]</h3>In November 1839, Douglas was promoted to Chief Factor, the highest possible rank for field service with the HBC. As a Chief Factor, he traveled to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alta_California" title="Alta California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Alta California</a>, where he met with a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Mexican</a> administrator and received permission to create a trading post in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerba_Buena,California" title="Yerba Buena, California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Yerba Buena, California</a> (modern <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco,California" class="mw-redirect" title="San Francisco, California" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">San Francisco, California</a>). In 1841 Douglas was charged with the duty of setting up a trading post on the southern tip of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_Island" title="Vancouver Island" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Vancouver Island</a>. George Simpson had recommended that the second line of forts be built in case the Columbia River valley fell into American hands. Charged with this task, Douglas founded <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Victoria(British_Columbia)" title="Fort Victoria (British Columbia)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Fort Victoria</a>, on the site of present-day <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria,British_Columbia" title="Victoria, British Columbia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Victoria, British Columbia</a>. This proved beneficial when in 1846 the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Treaty" title="Oregon Treaty" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Oregon Treaty</a> was signed, extending the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_North_America" title="British North America" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">British North America</a> and the United States border along the 49th parallel from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountains" title="Rocky Mountains" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Rocky Mountains</a> to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Strait" class="mw-redirect" title="Georgia Strait" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Strait of Georgia</a>. Sophia...<h2 style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); line-height: 1.3;">Douglas's Activities as Governor</h2>In August 1858 news reached Douglas that two Vancouver Island miners had been killed by natives. He believed that the whole region was on the verge of war and went out to investigate. Numerous minor clashes between natives and whites had concluded without fatalities. After investigating the situation he found that alcohol had been a major cause, and prohibited the sale of liquor to natives. While on the trip to the murder scene, Douglas brought the Crown Solicitor of Vancouver Island in order to uphold the law and make a show that demonstrated British law was still in effect. During this trip he encountered a great number of squatting foreigners, reducing the total possible revenues for land sales to the government.In attempt to suppress unlawful acts, Douglas appointed regional constables, a Chief Inspector of Police (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartres_Brew" title="Chartres Brew" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Chartres Brew</a>), and a network of intelligence officials. He also created Assistant Gold Commissioners (he appointed Chartres Brew as Chief Gold Commissioner) to look after mining and civil cases. Such preventive measures helped ensure that the chaos accompanying the California gold rush was not repeated in British Columbia.Continuing his service as Governor of Vancouver Island, Douglas authorised construction of the government buildings known as the "Birdcages" in 1859. In 1862, with the discovery of rich gold deposits in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cariboo(electoral_district)" title="Cariboo (electoral district)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Cariboo region</a>, sparking the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cariboo_Gold_Rush" title="Cariboo Gold Rush" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Cariboo Gold Rush</a>, Douglas ordered the construction of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cariboo_Road" title="Cariboo Road" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Cariboo Road</a>. This engineering feat ran 400 miles from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale,British_Columbia" title="Yale, British Columbia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Fort Yale</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barkerville,British_Columbia" title="Barkerville, British Columbia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Barkerville</a> through extremely hazardous canyon territory. The Cariboo road was also called the "Queen's Highway" and the "Great North Road".Near the end of his rule as governor, Douglas was criticized for not developing the colony as a self-governing body. His only such political reform had been to initiate an elected Legislative Council. His argument against the creation of a self-governing colony was the state of the population: few were British subjects, most held permanent residence within the colony, and of those few owned property.He was friends with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ker" title="Robert Ker" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Robert Ker</a> the First Auditor General of the Two Colonies of British Columbia, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sebastian_Helmcken" title="John Sebastian Helmcken" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">John Sebastian Helmcken</a> a future <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speaker_of_the_Legislative_Assembly_of_British_Columbia" title="Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Speaker of the House</a> of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislative_Assembly_of_British_Columbia" title="Legislative Assembly of British Columbia" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Legislative Assembly of British Columbia</a>. Like Douglas, they are both considered founding fathers of British Columbia. Helmcken married Douglas' daughter Cecilia.
long shadow doc causeyrequest AA in CA to come 1850's afrau8n CA --> slave state?! 1858, about 400 black Californian families moved to BC, enriching the cultural life of the new colony.The first large wave of African-Americans to come to British Columbia were invited by James Douglas, Governor of Vancouver Island, in 1858. Douglas, the son of an African Creole mother from the Caribbean and a European father, was sensitive to the concerns of African-Americans in California. Due to growing legal restrictions on their ability to live and work as equals, black Californians were alarmed when a runaway slave was allowed to be arrested in California, and when only blacks were suddenly expected to register.In 1858, nearly 800 free black people left the oppressive racial conditions of San Francisco for a new life on Vancouver Island. Governor James Douglas had invited them to settle in British Columbia. Though still faced with intense discrimination, these pioneers enriched the political, religious and economic life of the colony. For example, Mifflin Gibbs became a prominent politician, Charles and Nancy Alexander initiated the Shady Creek Methodist Church, and John Deas established a salmon cannery. The group also formed one of the earliest colonial militia units, the Victoria Pioneer Rifle Corps.A ceremony took place on February 20, 2000 in Saanichton, B.C. to honour the arrival of the Black Pioneers to British Columbia.https://yyy.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/07/canada-indigenous-anti-pipeline-protestersno lnx...The pipeline project has previously faced numerous delays, after a group of protesters constructed a blockade – named Unist’ot’en Camp – in order to prevent construction vehicles from accessing the area.
On 14 December, a British Columbia court granted TransCanada an injunction permitting them access to the construction site and ordering the removal of the blockade. Within days, activists erected the new barrier, named the Gidimt’en checkpoint.
On Sunday, Unist’ot’en Camp issued a statement of support for the Gidimt’en checkpoint: “The RCMP’s ultimatum, to allow TransCanada access to unceded Wet’suwet’en territory or face police invasion, is an act of war. Canada is now attempting to do what it has always done – criminalize and use violence against indigenous people so that their unceded homelands can be exploited for profit.”
Both the Unist’ot’en and Gitimd’en are part of the five clans which make up the Wet’suwet’en.
In recent years, British Columbia has been the site of a number of high-profile legal cases surrounding the issue of land title. Because few of the province’s First Nations signed treaties with colonial governments, the courts have often been the arbiters of land rights disputes.
The Delgamuukw v British Columbia case – which covers part of the Wet’suwet’en territory – previously found that indigenous rights to their historical territory are not “extinguished” for lack of a treaty.
Wet’suwet’en claim they retain title to the land and as a result, have sole authority to deny or grant access to the territory.

Trudeau's environmental record on the line in Canada election year Read moreThe pipeline feud comes as energy companies in Canada are facing numerous delays and barriers to their infrastructure projects, including environmental assessments and adequate consultations with indigenous communities on whose territory the projects would pass through.
Another high-profile pipeline project, Trans Mountain, was halted over the summer after a federal court determined indigenous communities had not been adequately consulted during the approvals process.
British Columbia premier John Horgan, who made headlines for his fight against the Trans Mountain pipeline, has cheered on the C$40bn liquid natural gas project – of which the Coastal GasLink is a critical piece – citing the large number of jobs and revenue that will result from its completion.
While the provincial government has said the facility will be the cleanest of its kind in the world, a report from the Pembina Institute found that the project would increase the province’s emissions by 8.6 megatonnes by 2030.
Protesters at the Gitimd’en checkpoint have vowed to prevent the project from being built on their territory....=<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="https://ecowatch.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=214ab5fbb3f6015d74ffab4ec&id=e83fb9a4cf&e=c2e8fdabfa" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Canadian Supreme Court Rejects BC City’s Bid to Stop Trans Mountain Pipeline</a>big fires now? =<a href="https://www.alternet.org/environment/greenpeace-co-founder-rex-weyler-arrested-protesting-trans-mountain-pipeline" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.alternet.org/environment/greenpeace-co-founder-rex-weyler-arrested-protesting-trans-mountain-pipeline</a>Monday, Greenpeace co-founder Rex Weyler and the children of founding family members were arrested while peacefully protesting the expansion of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline. They were joined at the independently organized protest on unceded Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver, Canada) by Canadian and American allies who oppose the pipeline for violating Indigenous rights, worsening the effects of global warming, harming the environment and its wildlife, as well as threatening the health and well-being of local communities from Canada to the Pacific Coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California.Rex Weyler, a founding member of Greenpeace, said: “Forty-six years ago, Greenpeace got its start right here in Vancouver protecting this coastline, and the world, from the sorts of ecological disasters and social disruption that Kinder Morgan’s pipeline threatens. Like then, we stand now for protection of the natural bounty that keeps our communities alive and prosperous. We stand here on the land and by the waters of the Tsleil Waututh people, who have shown us generosity and taught us responsibility, in solidarity and prepared to go to jail, to preserve the ecological integrity of this coast for ourselves and future generations.”<div id="TeadsNative" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Barbara and Bob Stowe, daughter and son of Greenpeace founders Dorothy and Irving Stowe, said: “We see a lot of parallels between the fight against Kinder Morgan today, and Greenpeace's first action: sailing a boat to stop nuclear bomb tests in Alaska in 1971. Like Kinder Morgan’s pipeline, those tests did not have Indigenous consent and would devastate a pristine environment. Both projects amounted to a government-approved home invasion on indigenous territory. Today, we will stand with Coast Salish Peoples against it. If our parents were alive today, they'd be standing right here with us.” A British Columbia judge recently issued an injunction to stifle protests along the route of the Trans Mountain pipeline. Weyler, an American-Canadian who grew up and was educated in the United States, was joined by Barbara and Bobby Stowe, the children of Greenpeace co-founders Dorothy and Irving Stowe. They protested in solidarity with Indigenous and environmental allies, risking arrest to stop construction of the Kinder Morgan pipeline and to prove that Big Oil CEOs won’t succeed in limiting the free speech of concerned citizens and their right to peaceful assembly. This comes against the backdrop of Energy Transfer Partners’ (ETP) <a href="https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/global-warming/greenpeace-v-energy-transfer-partners-facts/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">baseless $900 million lawsuit</a> against Greenpeace and others alleging that independent organizations formed a “criminal enterprise” that instigated violence to damage the company. But the transparent goal of the oil industry is to squelch any and all opposition to its pipelines.Monday's protest, however, continues the overwhelming momentum in the fight to keep the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion from being constructed. Today’s protest was one of several independently planned this week by Canadian and American individuals and follows the recent Indigenous-led <a href="https://www.apnews.com/f1ca00e31fe047c994c5c3b1b0129cf7/Thousands-march-to-protest-Canada-pipeline-expansion-project" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">march of more than 10,000 people</a> who voiced their opposition to the pipeline and its harmful effects, making international news in the process. This was followed by the announcement of Washington Governor Jay Inslee that he too opposes the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion because it would threaten our climate and the existence of the Endangered Southern Resident Killer Whale. Greenpeace applauded Governor Inslee and called for him to continue using the full weight of his influence to ensure the Trans Mountain expansion is never completed, and for his fellow elected officials in Washington, Oregon, and California to do the samePipelines like Trans Mountain, Keystone XL, and Enbridge’s Line 3 worsen the effects of climate change because of their high carbon emissions when oil is extracted and burned. Further, research into Kinder Morgan, Trans Canada, and Enbridge have shown that from 2010 to the present they have had 373 hazardous liquid spills from their U.S. pipeline networks, jeopardizing the safety of drinking water. Further, expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline would increase tar sands oil tanker traffic along the Pacific Coast. The noise these ships make would jeopardize the survival of the Southern Resident Killer Whale, whose numbers have dwindled to just 76 in recent years. And since more tankers mean more spills, any increase in coastal traffic puts marine life and local fish populations at risk, including the tourism and fishing industry jobs they suppor</div> =<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/kinder-morgan-pipeline-protest-2549827169.html">https://www.ecowatch.com/kinder-morgan-pipeline-protest-2549827169.html</a><div class="headline-container" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 class="headline h1" style="margin: 10px; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 31px;">28 Activists Arrested at Kinder Morgan Pipeline Construction Site</h1></div><div id="utm_campaign" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body js-update-url" data-elid="2549827169" data-authors="Olivia Rosane" data-headline="28 Activists Arrested at Kinder Morgan Pipeline Construction Site" style="margin: 10px; line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="body-description">Despite a court-ordered injunction barring anyone from coming within 5 meters (approximately 16.4 feet) of two of its BC construction sites, opponents of the <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/kinder-morgan" target="self" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Kinder Morgan</a> Trans Mountain <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/pipelines" style="text-decoration-line: none;">pipeline</a> expansion sent a clear message Saturday that they would not back down...Twenty-eight demonstrators were arrested March 17 after blocking the front gate to Kinder Morgan's tank farm in Burnaby, BC for four hours, according to a press release put out by <a href="https://protecttheinlet.ca/media/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Protect the Inlet</a>, the group leading the protest.According to the release, the protesters were a mixed group of indigenous people, families, retired teachers and other community members."We're going to do whatever it takes, and by any means necessary, and we'll show up day after day until we win this fight," Treaty-6-Mathias Colomb-Cree-Nation member Clayton Thomas-Muller said in the release.Saturday's action was an intentional show of civil disobedience."Everyone was very aware of the situation, of the possibility of arrest. And everyone was given the chance at any time during the day to leave that zone and not be arrested," Amina Moustaqim-Barrette, protestor and <a href="https://350.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">350.org</a> communications coordinator, told the <a href="http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/rcmp-arrest-anti-pipeline-protesters-at-kinder-morgan-site-in-burnaby" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Vancouver Sun</a>.According to the Protect the Inlet website, Saturday's action will kick off a two-week mobilization from March 18 to March 24. The activists need to prevent Kinder Morgan from completing key clear-cutting work by March 26, when the return of migratory birds will cause delays.Thursday's injunction also applies to the pipeline's construction site at Westridge Marine Terminal, the Sun reported.According to <a href="http://350seattle.org/kinder-morgan/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">350 Seattle</a>, the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project aims to triple the amount of Alberta <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/tar-sands" style="text-decoration-line: none;">tar sands</a> oil carried from the Canadian Rockies to Burnaby, BC and Anacortes, WA from 300,000 to 890,000 barrels per day. It would also increase oil tanker activity in the Salish Sea and Strait of Juan de Fuca by 700 percent, threatening vulnerable orca populations and other <a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/tag/marine-life" style="text-decoration-line: none;">marine animals</a>.</div></div> <a href="https://fsrn.org/2016/09/earth-hits-co2-concentration-point-of-no-return-canada-plants-a-carbon-bomb/">https://fsrn.org/2016/09/earth-hits-co2-concentration-point-of-no-return-canada-plants-a-carbon-bomb/</a>LNG BC ok'd env cdasort of blocking pipeline by conds?<a href="http://www.globalpossibilities.org/british-columbias-carbon-tax-has-been-so-successful-that-businesses-want-to-increase-it/">http://www.globalpossibilities.org/british-columbias-carbon-tax-has-been-so-successful-that-businesses-want-to-increase-it/</a>http://www.desmog.ca/2015/06/03/kitimat-residents-muzzled-speaking-out-rio-tinto-alcan-s-plan-increase-air-pollution<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="min-height: 280px; line-height: 18.5900001525879px;"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Lis Stannus remembers how serious <a href="http://www.ec.gc.ca/air/default.asp?lang=En&n=7E5E9F00-1" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 1.1em;">the problem of acid rain</a> was in Ontario when she lived on a farm near Lake Huron as a child. So when Rio Tinto Alcan informed Kitimat residents of its plans to increase <a href="http://www.experts.com/Articles/Hydrogen-Sulfide-and-Sulfur-Dioxide-Basic-Toxicology-and-Primary-Litigation-Issues-By-Thomas-H-Milby-MD" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 1.1em;">sulphur dioxide</a> pollution — a key contributor to acid rain —she couldn’t understand why no one fought back.“Nobody was speaking out,” Stannus said, “and I found it amazing that those people who should have been speaking out weren’t.”Rio Tinto Alcan received a permit from the B.C. government in 2013 that allowed the company <a href="http://www.riotintobcoperations.com/modernization/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 1.1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">to increase production of aluminum</a> at its smelter in Kitimat, leading to a 56 per cent increase in sulphur dioxide emissions. Currently, both the government and Rio Tinto Alcan are defending that permit in front of a tribunal acting for the B.C. Environmental Appeals Board in Kitimat.Rio Tinto Alcan says its ‘modernization’ of the smelter is now 94 per cent complete although the tribunal has the power to rescind the province’s permit, putting the immediate future of the plant in question.<h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;">The Muzzle Effect: Small Town, Big Company</h3>Stannus said when she first heard about the emissions increase she contacted the city, the Kitimat health authority and local environmental groups to push back against the company’s plans, to no avail.But it didn’t take long for Stannus to realize “there was a lot of muzzling” going on, she said. “We are all muzzled here.”Part of the problem, Stannus said, is that the aluminum plant is a major job provider for Kitimat.“Without Alcan, Kitimat would be nothing,” she said. “Kitimat literally wouldn’t be here.”Alcan, now owned by multi-national mining magnate Rio Tinto, used to be fondly referred to as “Uncle Al” by Kitimat residents.The company created Kitimat as an artificial township in the 1950s to support a growing workforce. Although the planned city was originally created with 150,000 residents in mind, its current population is between 8,000 and 9,000 — about 1,400 of which rely on the smelter for employment.“It’s like nobody would speak out if they worked for Rio Tinto Alcan,” she said. “You just wouldn’t speak up.”Stannus said she recently spoke to an employee of Rio Tinto Alcan who said he was reprimanded by company officials for posting about sulphur dioxide emissions on his Facebook page.Morris Amos from the Haisla First Nation said his band council and Rio Tinto Alcan entered into a $22 million “<a href="http://haisla.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Haisla-RTA-Legacy-Working-Group-Presentation-May-24.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 1.1em;">Legacy Agreement</a>” that acts as a gag order on Haisla officials.“Part of the language of the agreement, which is really more of a contract, includes a clause that talks about the Haisla Nation never coming forward to question anything that Alcan does as long as the agreement is in effect,” he said.The Legacy Agreement, signed in 2010, guarantees employment, business opportunities and a trust fund for the Haisla Nation as an outcome of Rio Tinto Alcan’s modernization project.Amos, brother of former elected Haisla chief Gerald Amos, said the agreement means his nation can’t officially question the increase of Rio Tinto Alcan’s sulphur dioxide emissions.“I take that as a muzzling clause,” he said. “It remains to be seen if that has any force or effect legally — it hasn’t been challenged yet.”Amos says the Legacy Agreement explains why the Haisla Nation hasn’t played a role in fighting for pollution reductions.The Legacy Agreement, “is part of the reason why there’s no band council presence in this Environmental Appeals Board hearing,” he said.Amos said he can speak out about the Legacy Agreement and Rio Tinto Alcan’s sulphur dioxide emissions because he’s not a part of the band council.“I work for a heredity chief, so that’s another thing altogether.”<h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;">Rio Tinto Alcan’s Permit to Pollute</h3>B.C. approved a permit in April 2013 that granted Rio Tinto Alcan the right to increase its sulphur dioxide emissions by 56 per cent.Stannus, along with fellow Kitimat resident Emily Toews, is appealing that permit approval in the Environmental Appeals Board hearing, arguing the increase in sulphur dioxide emissions unnecessarily threatens human health.“I was really mad,” Stannus said. “Because it seemed like an infringement of our rights and it went against everything the government told us we were working towards: reducing emissions, keeping the air clean.”Stannus realized she needed to speak out. “ I thought, ‘I can do it. I don’t have anything to lose.’”<h3 style="line-height: 1.28205em; margin-top: 1.28205em; margin-bottom: 1.28205em;">Pollution Reduction Measures Not Required by Province</h3>Rio Tinto Alcan’s ability to reduce its sulphur dioxide emissions is central to the appeal hearings.Giving testimony before the appeal panel, Ian Sharpe, director of environmental protection with the B.C. Ministry of Environment, said before granting the permit he required evidence Rio Tinto Alcan “could and would” install pollution reduction technology called <a href="http://www.ogj.com/articles/print/volume-89/issue-26/in-this-issue/refining/seawater-scrubbing-removes-so2-from-refinery-flue-gases.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 1.1em;">scrubbers</a> “should there be a need to have emissions lower than what they applied for.”But rather than require the company to install scrubbers, which would prevent the increase of sulphur dioxide emissions, the province granted Rio Tinto Alcan a permit to increase its emissions for an indefinite amount of time.Sharpe told the panel he decided not to impose sulphur dioxide limits on Rio Tinto Alcan because both B.C. and the federal government are considering updating their own standards in coming years.Stannus said she doesn’t understand why the province will allow emissions to go up if the company has already prepared for the installation of scrubbers.“I learned there was a place put at the plant for wet scrubbers. That was a backup plan,” she said. “I thought, ‘if scrubbers aren’t feasible, why would they do that?’”Stannus thinks it comes down to penny pinching. Rio Tinto Alcan initially announced its modernization project would cost just over $2 billion but that number has recently <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/rio-tinto-raises-cost-of-kitimat-smelter-upgrade-to-48-billion/article19951432/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 1.1em;">skyrocketed to nearly $5 billion</a>.The Environmental Appeal Board hearings are currently taking place in Kitimat and are now in their third week. The panel could rescind Rio Tinto Alcan’s permit or order the company to install scrubbers.Image Credit: Lis Stannus courtesy of Doug Keech.</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-14 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above" style="padding-top: 1.5em; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); margin-top: 1.5em; line-height: 18.5900001525879px;"><div class="field-label" style="text-transform: uppercase; display: inline;">TAGS: </div><div class="field-items" style="display: inline;"><div class="field-item even" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="http://www.desmog.ca/directory/vocabulary/12431">Rio Tinto Alcan</a></div><div class="field-item odd" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="http://www.desmog.ca/directory/vocabulary/17300">smelter</a></div><div class="field-item even" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="http://www.desmog.ca/directory/vocabulary/7761">Kitimat</a></div><div class="field-item odd" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="http://www.desmog.ca/directory/vocabulary/10196">SO2</a></div><div class="field-item even" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="http://www.desmog.ca/directory/vocabulary/17304">sulphur dioxide</a></div><div class="field-item odd" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="http://www.desmog.ca/directory/vocabulary/1976">emissions</a></div><div class="field-item even" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="http://www.desmog.ca/directory/vocabulary/11858">Ministry of Environment</a></div><div class="field-item odd" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="http://www.desmog.ca/directory/vocabulary/15405">hearings</a></div><div class="field-item even" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="http://www.desmog.ca/directory/vocabulary/20905">tribunal</a></div><div class="field-item odd" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="http://www.desmog.ca/directory/vocabulary/10960">Appeal</a></div><div class="field-item even" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="http://www.desmog.ca/directory/vocabulary/20667">Lis Stannus</a></div><div class="field-item odd" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="http://www.desmog.ca/directory/vocabulary/20668">Emily Toews</a></div><div class="field-item even" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="http://www.desmog.ca/directory/vocabulary/10927">muzzling</a></div><div class="field-item odd" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="http://www.desmog.ca/directory/vocabulary/20906">Haisla Nation</a></div><div class="field-item even" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="http://www.desmog.ca/directory/vocabulary/20907">Morris Amos</a></div><div class="field-item odd" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="http://www.desmog.ca/directory/vocabulary/17301">aluminum</a></div><div class="field-item even" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0.5em;"><a href="http://www.desmog.ca/directory/vocabulary/20908">Environmental Appeal Board</a></div></div></div><h1 class="title" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; letter-spacing: -1px;">Canada Leads the World in Forest Decline, Study Says</h1><div id="node-34383" class="node node-type-breaking_news clear-block" style="padding-bottom: 1em;"><div class="meta" style="padding-bottom: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; background-image: url(http://insideclimatenews.org/sites/all/themes/solve/images/dot-bottom.png); background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x;"><div id="authoredBy" style="width: 343.96875px; float: left;"><div style="width: 185.203125px; float: right; text-align: right;">Sep 5, 2014</div><div style="clear: both;"><div class="pagecount"><div class="content"><div class="field field-type-text field-field-news-source"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item odd">(PostMedia News)</div></div></div><div class="field field-type-text field-field-news-body"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item odd">The world's virgin forests are being lost at an increasing rate and the largest portion of the degradation is in Canada, according to a new report.No longer is Brazil the main villain in the struggle to stop forest destruction."Canada is the number one in the world for the total area of the loss of intact forest landscapes since 2000," Peter Lee, of Forest Watch Canada, said in an interview.He said the main drivers are fires, logging and energy and industrial development."There is no political will at federal or provincial levels for conserving primary forests," he said. "Most logging done in Canada is still to this day done in virgin forests."</div></div></div><div class="field field-type-link field-field-news-source-url"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item odd" style="width: 529.1875px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: right;"><a href="http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/world/Canada+leads+world+forest+decline+report+says/10174609/story.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; outline: none;">Read original story</a></div></div></div></div></div>When I pull up to the pumps in my small hometown on the coast of British Columbia, Canada, I pay more for a tank of gas than in California, my new home. Why? Because regardless of where gas prices hover at the moment, the B.C. government tops off every gallon with a 25-cent tax.Complaining about gas prices is almost as ubiquitous as small talk about the weather, so it seems counterintuitive for politicians to hike costs up even further. Yet somehow the province’s Liberal party managed not only to do just that, but also to win an election centered on the issue in 2009. They did it by designing the tax in a way that benefits the province’s robust middle class.http://grist.org/climate-energy/b-c-put-a-price-on-carbon-what-happened-next-will-surprise-you/

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