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</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><a href="https://www.desmog.com/2022/07/26/climate-leader-netflix-donated-to-rightwing-think-tank/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.desmog.com/2022/07/26/climate-leader-netflix-donated-to-rightwing-think-tank/</font></a></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Netflix gives every impression of being one of the world’s most climate friendly corporations. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The streaming company responsible for the blockbuster climate movie “Don’t Look Up” starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence plans to slash or offset all of its corporate greenhouse gas emissions by the end of 2022, a goal known as net-zero.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Netflix is producing and providing a platform for documentaries, TV series, and feature films educating viewers about the climate crisis — about 160 million households globally watched one of these stories in 2020, <a href="https://about.netflix.com/en/sustainability" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">according to</a> the company.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The film industry needs a leader when it comes to climate action,” Katharine Hayhoe, a chief scientist at the Nature Conservancy who belongs to an independent advisory group of experts for Netflix’s sustainability plan, <a href="https://about.netflix.com/en/sustainability" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">has said</a>. “I’m thrilled at how Netflix is taking on this leadership role.” </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>But away from the public eye there is one area where Netflix is anything but green.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The company has donated to a rightwing think tank in Canada that has also been supported financially by the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association, the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><a href="https://corporate.exxonmobil.com/Locations/Canada" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Exxon-owned</a> tar sands producer Imperial Oil, and the Charles G. Koch Foundation, an organization linked to Koch Industries.</span></b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Known as the </span><a href="https://www.desmog.com/macdonald-laurier-institute/" data-wpel-link="internal" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Macdonald Laurier Institute</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, this Ottawa-based think tank boasts of having “great influence” in pushing forward a massive tar sands pipeline expansion called</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Trans Mountain.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> That project’s greenhouse gas emissions could far eclipse any carbon reductions that Netflix promises in its “net-zero” plan</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Macdonald Laurier Institute is a relatively new think tank. Founded in 2010, its <a href="https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/about/who-makes-mli-work/" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">board of directors and advisors</a> come from some of the top legal, lobbying and financial firms in Canada. It <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/18/conservative-us-network-undermined-indigenous-energy-rights-in-canada" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">is also a member</a> of the <a href="https://www.desmog.com/atlas-economic-research-foundation/" data-wpel-link="internal" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Atlas Network</a>, a U.S.-based coalition whose hundreds of partners worldwide include the <a href="https://www.desmog.com/cato-institute/" data-wpel-link="internal" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">Cato Institute</a>, a libertarian think tank co-founded by Charles Koch.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The Macdonald Laurier Institute has <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/18/conservative-us-network-undermined-indigenous-energy-rights-in-canada" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">partnered with Atlas</a> on a campaign to discourage the Canadian government from implementing laws that would give Indigenous communities greater power to push against oil and gas projects on their land.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Netflix is listed as a donor to the Macdonald Laurier Institute in the organization’s 2018 annual report, alongside Imperial Oil, the Atlas Network and several dozen other supporters. “We believe that with your help we will bring Canada closer to becoming the best governed country in the world,” <a href="https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/files/pdf/2018_MLI_annual_report_Fweb.pdf" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">the annual report says</a> of donors like Netflix. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Macdonald Laurier Institute, also known as MLI, didn’t respond to questions about the Netflix donation.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This might seem like an odd pairing, because Netflix <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/02/most-liberal-tech-companies-ranked-by-employee-donations.html" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">by some measures</a> is one of the most politically liberal tech companies, and MLI <a href="https://policyoptions.irpp.org/2014/11/19/what-can-a-little-birdie-twitter-tell-us-about-think-tank-ideology/" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">is arguably</a> one of Canada’s most rightwing think tanks. But at the end of the day, Netflix is a large corporation with financial interests that could potentially be served by supporting a think tank <a href="https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/files/pdf/2018_MLI_annual_report_Fweb.pdf" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">that claims</a> it “has been regularly recognized for our influential thought leadership in Canada.” </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Just because the Macdonald Laurier Institute is seen as more conservative, and Netflix is seen as having a more progressive agenda, doesn’t necessarily mean that their interests don’t align,” Donald Abelson, a professor of political science at the University of Western Ontario who is an expert on think tanks, told DeSmog.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But Abelson cautioned against assuming that Netflix supports MLI’s full political agenda; more than likely, its donation had nothing to do with pipelines. “Let’s say you joined a political party, does that mean you agree with all the policies or platforms that emerge from that party?” he said. </font></p><figure id="attachment_47277" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-47277" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; max-width: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); width: 800px;"><picture class="wp-image-47277 size-large" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://www.desmog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Dont-Look-Up-Leonardo-DiCaprio-and-Jennifer-Lawrence-1024x433.png.webp 1024w, https://www.desmog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Dont-Look-Up-Leonardo-DiCaprio-and-Jennifer-Lawrence-300x127.png.webp 300w, https://www.desmog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Dont-Look-Up-Leonardo-DiCaprio-and-Jennifer-Lawrence-768x325.png.webp 768w, https://www.desmog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Dont-Look-Up-Leonardo-DiCaprio-and-Jennifer-Lawrence.png.webp 1135w" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></picture><figcaption id="caption-attachment-47277" class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Netflix’s climate satire ‘Don’t Look Up’ broke viewing records when it was released in 2021. Credit: Netflix</font></figcaption></figure><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Netflix didn’t respond to questions from DeSmog about the size of its donation or whether it was aware of MLI’s support for Trans Mountain, a pipeline designed to export an additional 590,000 barrels per day from the tar sands.</b> </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The think tank has an entire section about the pipeline in its report naming Netflix as a donor. That section doesn’t once mention climate change and claims that a failure to build Trans Mountain “threatens Canada’s economy.” </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the year that Netflix donated to the think tank, tensions were increasing over the <b>Trans Mountain project, a 714-mile pipeline expansion connecting the Alberta tar sands to oil-carrying supertankers in the west coast city of Vancouver.</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Many environmental groups and </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">First Nations were opposed to the project</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, and so was British Columbia Premier John Horgan, whose government delayed issuing crucial permits while arguing that the environmental risks of a potential oil spill couldn’t be justified. </span></b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I do believe we have a mandate to defend the coast,” Horgan <a href="https://www.nationalobserver.com/2018/04/14/news/bc-issues-trans-mountain-pipeline-permit-update-horgan-heads-ottawa" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">said in 2018</a>. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Kinder Morgan, the Texas-based company building the expansion, threatened to walk away entirely. All this constituted a “nightmare” to the Macdonald Laurier Institute, <a href="https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/mli-files/pdf/MLICommentary_April2018_Newman_FWeb.pdf" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">which argued in a report</a> that “the attractiveness of Canada as a place for major investments is at stake.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In May 2018, a senior fellow at the institute named Dwight Newman testified to Canada’s Senate, where he argued that the federal government had the legal authority to override environmental opposition to the pipeline in B.C. “Canada does have the legislative powers to get this project done if there is the will to do so,” Newman <a href="https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/newman-discusses-trans-mountain-issues-standing-senate-committee/" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">said</a>. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Two weeks later, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that the federal government would pay $4.5 billion to buy the pipeline from Kinder Morgan, effectively nationalizing the project. Trudeau <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/29/615197549/canadas-government-buys-controversial-oil-pipeline-to-ensure-it-gets-built" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">called</a> Trans Mountain “a vital project in the national interest” in a tweet, <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/wjvkqq/canada-justin-trudeau-declares-climate-emergency-then-approves-trans-mountain-pipeline-expansion" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">just one day</a> after his government had declared a national “climate emergency” in Canada.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Macdonald Laurier Institute was thrilled about the role it played in the pipeline fight. It <a href="https://macdonaldlaurier.ca/files/pdf/2018_MLI_annual_report_Fweb.pdf" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">claimed</a> in its 2018 annual report to have shaped “government efforts to deal with the constitutional issues surrounding Trans Mountain,” adding that, “We have been at the forefront of efforts to chart a way out of the pipeline impasse.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Macdonald Laurier Institute didn’t say in its report how much money Netflix donated that year. But it is possible to quantify the climate damage that will be caused by Trans Mountain. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The pipeline, whose cost <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/trans-mountain-sees-expansion-project-cost-almost-doubling-ceo-retire-2022-02-18/" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">has now risen</a> to CAD $21.4 billion, could result in up to 15 million tons of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere annually once it’s completed in 2023</b>, <a href="https://theconversation.com/canadas-paris-pipeline-paradox-97636" data-wpel-link="external" target="blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: none;">according to calculations</a> by Environment and Climate Change Canada. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Netflix, by contrast, is now promising to cut or neutralize roughly 1 million tons of greenhouse gases related to its operations by the end of the year. </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: 1.5rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trans Mountain threatens to wipe out those climate gains entirely. </font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Genocide denial, racist myths, and the fight against canceling Columbus: A look at One America News’ anti-Indigenous coverage</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Over the past nine months,</b> OAN has disseminated racist, revisionist content about Indigenous people in Canada and the United States. AT&T is responsible.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WRITTEN BY BEATRICE MOUNT</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PUBLISHED 11/24/21 </font></div><div>
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Note: The subjects discussed in this article may be triggering for some readers. If you need immediate care or long-term support, the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition has compiled a culturally sensitive resource kit.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since February, right-wing cable outlet One America News Network has revived some of its favorite white nationalist conspiracy theories, bigoted lies, and racial epithets in a series of incendiary segments targeting Indigenous people of North America. Hosts, reporters, and guests have thrown fit after fit about small recognitions made in 2020 and 2021 to acknowledge the whitewashed history of colonization, power imbalances, and racist depictions of Indigenous people in North America. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In June, the network turned to full-fledged genocide denialism after ground-penetrating radar uncovered over 1,300 unmarked graves of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit children killed under Canada’s residential school policy</b>. Canada's 2015 Truth and Reconciliation Commission called the residential school system a "cultural genocide" of Indigenous people, and the federal government formally apologized for it in 2008.<b> OAN downplayed this history and dismissed the discovery of the graves as an “excuse” for “an anti-Christian crusade.”</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In October, OAN used Indigenous Peoples Day to praise Christopher Columbus and Europeans for “civilizing” the “savages.” And throughout the nine-month period, OAN figures regurgitated right-wing talking points about “social justice warriors” forcing sports teams to change their names from racist slurs and “erasing” Columbus from our calendars. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Meanwhile, a Reuters investigation revealed that telecom giant AT&T had played a key role in creating and funding the far-right network, with 90% of OAN's revenue reportedly coming from its AT&T contract.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Less than a month later, in November, AT&T Vice President Tom Brooks (a member of the Kanien'kehà:ka nation) renewed his company's commitment to “support Indigenous peoples” for Native American Heritage Month. That marked AT&T’s latest commitment to support Indigenous people via nonprofit fundraising, policy research and advocacy, and its Inter-Tribal Council of AT&T employees.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But the company can't have it both ways: AT&T cannot support Indigenous rights in one breath while funding OAN in the next.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As we recognize National Native American Heritage Month, here’s a look at how OAN has attacked Indigenous people so far this year -- all enabled by AT&T’s continued support for the network</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OAN denied the history of genocidal policies used to assimilate Indigenous children</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the 1800s, governments in the U.S. and Canada partnered with churches to force Indigenous children into boarding schools under a genocidal assimilation policy with the explicit goal to “kill the Indian, save the man.” An estimated minimum of 6,000 Indigenous children died from injuries, illness, abuse, and neglect sustained in Canada’s system alone. Countless more children disappeared alongside their languages, cultures, and traditional teachings. By the time Canada shuttered the last of these schools in 1996, the residential school system left behind an ongoing, traumatic legacy extending far beyond the immediate survivors of the cultural genocide.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This traumatic legacy made headlines earlier this year after the discovery of over 1,300 bodies on the sites of former residential schools in Canada. In the U.S., the story prompted Interior Secretary Deb Haaland (a member of the Pueblo of Laguna) to order the first comprehensive federal review of American residential schools with an explicit “emphasis on cemeteries or potential burial sites.” While imperfect, this order is a significant first step in America’s own slow reckoning with its genocidal assimilation policies -- one that OAN seems intent to undermine by spreading disinformation to its viewers.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Led by Tipping Point host Kara McKinney, OAN treated the discovery of more than a thousand Indigenous children’s graves as a lie meant to target churches, drawing a tenuous connection between the discoveries and a string of church vandalism and arson across Canada.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>On July 12, McKinney called the reporting on mass graves of Indigenous people at former residential schools an “odious lie” used to “excuse” the “desecration of holy grounds.”</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On July 23, McKinney asserted that the media had “exaggerated” its coverage of residential schools, stating, “Just like the history of slavery in America gets overexaggerated in some cases in order to be weaponized to reorder society to this day -- they make everything about race -- the same thing is happening with these schools in Canada.” </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Days later, OAN irresponsibly blamed Canadian church fires on “activists seeking revenge for Indigenous students,” comparing them to “American churches [that] were burned down or vandalized” by “George Floyd protesters” in 2020. (Though some suspects have since been arrested and charged for the Canadian fires, authorities there have yet to discuss their possible motivations.) </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a Tipping Point segment promoting her deceptive YouTube video “The Canadian Mass Grave Hoax,” alt-right troll Lauren Southern downplayed the discoveries at former residential schools, saying, “If you scratch past the surface, none of it is true.” She later claimed that “it is a far stretch to say a pit of murdered children with thousands of bodies across Canada and a gravesite that the markers have been lost -- a massive stretch, and one that ... led to mass hatred and hate crimes and terrorism, quite frankly, across Canada.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OAN mocked Indigenous Peoples Day</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OAN was outraged after President Joe Biden issued a proclamation officially recognizing October 8 as Indigenous Peoples Day. The move neither removed nor replaced Columbus Day, which is still a federally recognized holiday. Instead, it simply shifted focus onto the Indigenous community by creating what the Indigenous Peoples’ Initiative calls a “more powerful, more accurate, and more inspiring narrative about the contemporary Native experience” than the whitewashed history of colonization long perpetuated by Columbus Day. </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>That didn’t stop OAN from calling the move a leftist attempt to divide America. OAN hosts and guests accused Biden of “trying to erase Italian Americans,” whitewashed and defended genocide, and used derogatory terms to refer to Native Americans</b>.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Host Stephanie Hamill discussed the “divisive” decision with Andre DiMino, executive board member of the Italian American One Voice Coalition, who portrayed the recognition of Indigenous Peoples Day as Democrats “trying to revise history and attack western culture by starting at the foundation, which was the uniting of the continents by Columbus.” DiMino whined that Indigenous people were taking Italian Americans’ holiday even though they already have “August 9, the day after Thanksgiving, and the whole month of November.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Host Natalie Harp cited Indigenous Peoples Day as proof that “the people running our country, they do hate America at this point.” Her guest, conservative columnist Lee Smith, claimed the new holiday was part of “a campaign of demoralization” by Democrats to tell other Americans “that we will replace you with whoever we can drop into the country at any particular time” -- a direct reference to the white nationalist “great replacement” conspiracy theory.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After accusing Indigenous groups of cannibalism during her October 11 program, McKinney contradicted Columbus’ own accounts of enslaving and brutalizing Indigenous people, asserting that he “actually treated native peoples with great respect for his time" and “actively punished his own crew members when they abused and hurt the native peoples.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After repeatedly referring to Native Americans as “savages,” host Dan Ball asked, “What if Christopher Columbus had not found and tried to colonize this land? What if European settlers ... did not come to America and civilize the Native Americans? … If this land was left to tribes that were warring for the last 500 years, what would this land look like?” These types of rhetorical questions are predicated on racist myths about Indigenous people that continue to perpetuate systemic health, economic, political, and social inequalities.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OAN attacked Indigenous activism and spread racist misconceptions about Native Americans</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OAN regularly derided historic figures and activism and ensuing media coverage, paying particular attention to the Washington Football Team’s decision in July 2020 to stop using its previous racist moniker after decades of Indigenous activism against harmful and racist naming practices in sports. Hosts and guests referred to the team by the defunct name well into 2021.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OAN segments consistently criticized and undermined the historic nomination of Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, claiming the media focused too much on “the fact she’s the first Native American named to a Cabinet position” instead of her supposedly “radical environmentalist agenda” to fight "so-called climate change.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In an August 5 segment that repeatedly referred to the Washington Football Team by its racist former name, two OAN news hosts mocked Indigenous concerns and suggested that the Pittsburgh Pirates would be the next sports team to cede to “the left” and change its moniker “because a group of pirates are very upset about that.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>On the July 23 edition of The Real Story, American Principles Project President Terry Schilling told Indigenous people to “stop taking everything so personally</b>” as “it’s a total honor to name your team after the Indians, or [the Washington Football Team’s former name], or the Cherokees, or the Chiefs or whatever” <b>because they were “very tough adversaries” who “we had to fight … in America for 400 years.”</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Over a graphic stating “No Whites Allowed,” Ball suggested applying to a reparations fund meant for Black and Indigenous Californians “because I have Native American on my dad’s side, with probably more than Pocahontas,” referring to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), “but if I describe myself as an Indigenous person then I could apply to this.” His guest, former Trump adviser Harmeet Dhillon, said that this reparations policy is an example of “the ultimate racial privilege, really.” (Under current Federal enrollment guidelines, tribes do not consider a vague Indigenous ancestor or DNA test as valid proof of Native ancestry. Furthermore, using tenuous claims of Indigenous identity to avoid accountability for racist policies and beliefs is racist.)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On September 29, Tipping Point guest Christopher Check, president of Catholic Answers, downplayed Franciscan monk Junipero Serra’s brutal treatment toward Native American people, calling the colonizer a “saintly man that wanted nothing more than the best thing for natives of California, that eternal salvation." As Bad Indians author Deborah Miranda (Ohlone Costanoan Esselen nation) told KQED, “Serra did not just bring us Christianity. He imposed it, giving us no choice in the matter. He did incalculable damage to a whole culture.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sumantra Maitra, a senior contributor to The Federalist, used the October 11 edition of McKinney’s show to call the landback movement “a prelude to violence” and said that “the logical endpoint to that rhetoric is taking that land back, and taking that land back would've mean a reconquest,” explicitly comparing it to the Balkan genocides of the 1990s. Maitra’s comments grossly mischaracterize the landback movement, which is the latest social media-focused iteration of a broad political movement calling for settler governments to return land stewardship to Indigenous peoples.</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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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.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.25;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We nominate <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 900; padding: 0px; display: inline-block; margin: 0px;">TC Energy</span> 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.</font></p></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://theconversation.com/tc-energys-name-change-rebooting-canadian-pipeline-empires-132295">https://theconversation.com/tc-energys-name-change-rebooting-canadian-pipeline-empires-132295</a></font></p><div class="grid-twelve large-grid-eleven" style="margin: 0px 20px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; float: left; width: 926px;"><div class="grid-ten large-grid-nine grid-last content-body content entry-content instapaper_body inline-promos" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 12px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; float: left; width: 754px;"><p style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Canada, the recent oil price crash has distracted attention from <a href="https://ricochet.media/en/2966/its-not-over-tentative-agreement-with-wetsuweten-nation-may-be-a-milestone-but-it-doesnt-resolve-pipeline-fight" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">the controversial Coastal GasLink pipeline project</a>. Buried in that dispute is the recent history of TC Energy, Coastal GasLink’s parent firm.</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">TransCanada changed its name to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-transcanada-results/pipeline-company-transcanada-changes-name-to-tc-energy-idUSKCN1S911H" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">TC Energy</a> </span>just after the <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/4831253/rcmp-arrest-14-wetsuweten-camp-explainer/" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">January 2019 Unist'ot'en stand-off</a> between the RCMP and land defenders in support of a <a href="https://redpaper.yellowheadinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/coastal-gaslink-injunction-analysis.pdf" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Coastal GasLink injunction</a>. It was also within 10 days of the <a href="http://unistoten.camp/wetsuweten-leaders-condemn-canada-for-human-rights-violations-at-united-nations-forum/" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Unist’ot’en house group of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation alleging violations</a> of their territorial rights at the <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/wet-suwet-en-un-speeches-human-rights-violations-1.5111078" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">UN Permanent Forum</a> on Indigenous Peoples.</font></p><p style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>TC Energy’s name change also overlapped with <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/mexico-seeks-to-revise-private-pipeline-contracts-11549922009" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">the renegotiation</a> of controversial TransCanada pipeline contracts in Mexico.</b></font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">While TransCanada says <a href="https://www.tcenergy.com/TC-Energy/" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">the change</a> would better represent its increasing activities in Mexico and the United States, it also distanced the firm from controversial projects, among them the <a href="https://www.climatecentral.org/news/epa-keystone-xl-to-emit-1-billion-extra-tons-of-ghgs-18631" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Keystone XL project</a> that aimed to expand the Keystone pipeline system in Canada and the U.S.</font></p><h2 style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Keystone XL a flashpoint</font></h2><p style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Keystone XL has been a key target of global <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/paralyze-oilsands-plan-keystone-pipeline-1.5356980" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">environmental activism</a> against the oilsands and, for a time, resulted in Alberta oil being labelled the Earth’s most carbon-intensive and <a href="https://www.ran.org/issue/kxl_and_tar_sands/" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">dirtiest</a> fossil fuel. It also turned public attention to the violation of <a href="https://www.ienearth.org/keystone-xl-pipeline-now-is-time-to-keep-promises-to-great-sioux-nation/" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Indigenous territorial rights</a> in which <a href="http://infrastructureotherwise.org/DAPL_Report_20170921_FINAL.pdf" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">North American pipeline projects</a> are mired.</font></p><figure class="align-center " style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; position: relative;"><p style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[pix] </font></p><p style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">tC Energy now acknowledges that Keystone XL <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/07/31/transcanada-admits-keystone-xl-pipeline-may-never-happen_a_23058108" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">may never be built</a>.</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As opposition to Alberta’s oilsands, associated pipelines, <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/25473297" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">environmental injustice</a> and carbon emissions have ramped up in Canada over the past 15 years, so has <a href="https://monthlyreview.org/2008/11/01/liquefied-natural-gas-and-fossil-capitalism/" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">North American production of natural gas</a> for energy <a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/transcanada-corp-mulls-expansion-of-major-pipeline-to-ship-more-natural-gas-from-alberta-to-ontario/article37934035/" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">and export</a>. <b>In this shift, TC Energy’s role as a conduit for U.S. natural gas to Mexico is notable.</b></font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">TC Energy’s name change also dissociates the firm from Canada. In Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America, <b>Canada’s human rights <a href="https://justice-project.org/the-canada-brand-violence-and-canadian-mining-companies-in-latin-america/" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">reputation has plummeted</a> due to violence associated with Canadian mining companies.</b></font></p><h2 style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Negative image</font></h2><p style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/all_papers/273/" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Canada’s negative brand image</a> in Latin America emerges from a <a href="https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/blood-of-extraction" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">long history</a> of <a href="https://journals.brandonu.ca/jrcd/article/view/279" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">the Canadian government backing</a> its <a href="https://talonbooks.com/books/imperial-canada-inc" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">extractive sector at home and abroad</a>. TC Energy’s activities across North America are heavily financed by Canadian entities, including <a href="https://antipodeonline.org/2013/10/23/corporate-privacy-and-environmental-review-at-export-development-canada/" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Export Development Canada</a>, <a href="https://www.corporatemapping.ca/profiles/transcanada-corporation/" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">private banks and a network of influential board members</a> who <a href="https://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/big-oil%E2%80%99s-political-reach" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">lobby the Canadian government</a> for financial and diplomatic support.</font></p><hr style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); clear: both; border-right: none; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); margin-bottom: 18px;" /><p style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Read more: <a href="https://theconversation.com/the-role-of-canadian-mining-in-the-plight-of-central-american-migrants-120724" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">The role of Canadian mining in the plight of Central American migrants</a></font></span></span></p><hr style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); clear: both; border-right: none; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); margin-bottom: 18px;" /><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">Mexico had been a net exporter of hydrocarbons to the United States for three decades. But the U.S. shale-gas boom and Mexican energy reform shifted energy trade dramatically and <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">helped foster <a href="https://s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/sp-platts/Mexico-Energy-Liberalization-Special-Report.pdf" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Mexico’s increasing dependence on American natural gas</a>.</span></font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The pattern is reminiscent of <a href="https://www.usitc.gov/publications/332/working_papers/ahmed.htm" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Mexico’s abrupt dependence on U.S. maize</a> following the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Mexico shifted from being self-sufficient in this food staple to becoming dependent on imports. The same process has transpired in hydrocarbons, compromising Mexican energy sovereignty.</font></p><p style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The privatization of Mexico’s energy sector, which proceeded at a slow creep for decades and accelerated drastically in 2013, has been a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/04/gasolinazo-mexico-gasoline-price-hike-protests-petrol" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">flashpoint for protest</a> throughout the country due to high fuel costs.</b></font></p><h2 style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Helped AMLO get elected</font></h2><p style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It helped elect <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2018/07/15/indigenous-protests-mexico-pipeline-energy-reform-lopez-obrador" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">opposition leader Andrés Manuel López Obrador</a> to the Mexican presidency in 2018 and <a href="https://www.commonfrontiers.ca/putting-mexican-energy-privatization-beyond-the-reach-of-voters/" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">factored into</a> the renegotiation of NAFTA.</font></p><hr style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); clear: both; border-right: none; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); margin-bottom: 18px;" /><p style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Read more: <a href="https://theconversation.com/why-mexicos-historic-elections-may-bring-about-big-change-98979" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Why Mexico's historic elections may bring about big change</a></font></span></span></p><hr style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); clear: both; border-right: none; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); margin-bottom: 18px;" /><p style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">TC Energy is among the firms facilitating the growing <a href="https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/jlag/vol17/iss3/4/" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">American and Canadian involvement in the Mexican oil and gas sector</a>. A TransCanada representative was the <a href="https://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/mexico-mexique/2018cmp-pcm.aspx?lang=eng" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">co-chair of the intergovernmental Canada-Mexico Partnership’s energy sub-committee in 2016</a>.</font></p><p style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While TransCanada described a welcoming environment when it shifted activities <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/transcanada-russ-girling-mexico-agm-1.3580904" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">to Mexico,</a> this has soured with increasing opposition, including <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/mexico-transcanada-pipeline-puebla-indigenous-rights/" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Indigenous mobilization,</a> against pipeline projects in Mexico.</font></p><p style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);">Shared risks across the continent</span></font></p><p style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shortly after López Obrador’s election in 2018, but before he took office, TransCanada suspended pipeline projects <a href="https://www.chron.com/business/article/TransCanada-cancels-500-million-pipeline-in-13405207.php" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">in four states</a> due to protests. López Obrador has <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-27/mexico-s-amlo-says-a-deal-is-reached-with-pipeline-companie" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">renegotiated terms</a> associated with various pipeline contracts, including TC Energy, reportedly <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-27/mexico-s-amlo-says-a-deal-is-reached-with-pipeline-companies" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">saving Mexico US$4.5 billion dollars</a>.</font></p><p style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In both Canada and Mexico the ecological and financial risks of pipeline projects are shouldered by local residents and pension holders.</font></p><p style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As Canadian investment in Mexico’s energy sector has increased, the global <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0182-1.epdf" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">financial hazards</a> of locked-in hydrocarbon consumption, which are risky given their financial implications for carbon mitigation measures, have also been more broadly distributed to Mexicans.</font></p><p style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In <a href="https://www.policynote.ca/frack-up/" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">northeastern British Columbia</a>, earthquakes from natural gas fracking threaten dams and pose a risk to the area’s residents, according to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The carbon emissions from the first phase of the <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/lng-canada-carbon-greenhouse-environment-climate-1.4848237" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">LNG Canada</a> project that would <a href="https://thenarwhal.ca/to-understand-b-c-s-push-for-the-coastal-gaslink-pipeline-think-fracking-lng-canada-and-the-site-c-dam/" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">receive fracked gas via Coastal GasLink</a> are estimated at 3.45 megatonnes per year.</font></p><p style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is a large portion of the province’s future emissions. British Columbia has said it would cut emissions by 80 per cent by 2050, to about 13 megatonnes.</font></p><p style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Coastal GasLink project also <a href="https://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/columnists/opinion-aimcos-stake-in-gaslink-project-isnt-responsible-investing" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">poses risks</a> to those whose pensions finance the project if the project is unable to proceed.</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">In December, <a href="https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/12/26/1964525/0/en/TC-Energy-announces-the-partial-monetization-of-the-Coastal-GasLink-Pipeline-Project.html" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">TC Energy sold</a> a 65 per cent interest in Coastal GasLink to a consortium involving AIMCo (Alberta Investment Management Corp.) and <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">KKR,</span> a private U.S. financial company operating in partnership with the <a href="https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/south-korean-pension-plan-takes-part-ownership-of-controversial-coastal-gaslink-pipeline" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">National Pension Service of Korea</a>. AIMCo manages the funds that secure future income for <a href="https://www.aimco.alberta.ca/2018-annual-report/pdfs/AIMCo-AR2018.pdf" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">more than 368,000</a> public sector employees and pensioners in Alberta and the rest of Canada.</font></p><hr style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); clear: both; border-right: none; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); margin-bottom: 18px;" /><p style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-weight: 700;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Read more: <a href="https://theconversation.com/coastal-gaslink-and-canadas-pension-fund-colonialism-132396" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Coastal GasLink and Canada's pension fund colonialism</a></font></span></span></p><hr style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); clear: both; border-right: none; border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); margin-bottom: 18px;" /><p style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In recent years, the inter-governmental Canada-Mexico Partnership has promoted <a href="https://www.canadainternational.gc.ca/mexico-mexique/2018cmp-pcm.aspx?lang=eng" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Alberta’s approach</a> to securing “<a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/708943" style="outline: none; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word;">right of way</a> from Indigenous peoples to Mexico. This entails replicating the divisive model that industry has used to get consent from Indigenous peoples in Canada in Mexico.</font></p><p style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Given TC Energy’s trajectory over the past decade this is problematic.</font></p><p style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">TC Energy’s behaviour in Wet'suwet'en has resulted in a nationwide crisis. The Canadian government and Canadian firms should not facilitate the export of those behaviours to Mexico.</font></p></figure></div><div class="grid-ten grid-prepend-two large-grid-nine grid-last content-topics topic-list" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); margin: 0px 0px 12px 172px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; width: 754px;"><span class="icon-tag" style="margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: middle; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; display: inline-block; position: relative; top: 0px; width: 1.231em; float: left;"><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"><li class="topic-list-item" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); list-style: none; float: left;"><a href="https://theconversation.com/topics/indigenous-55" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-radius: 2px; display: block; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px 6px 6px 0px; padding: 0px 6px; white-space: nowrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Indigenous</font></a></li><li class="topic-list-item" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); list-style: none; float: left;"><a href="https://theconversation.com/topics/mexico-1827" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-radius: 2px; display: block; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px 6px 6px 0px; padding: 0px 6px; white-space: nowrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Mexico</font></a></li><li class="topic-list-item" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); list-style: none; float: left;"><a href="https://theconversation.com/topics/keystone-xl-pipeline-17275" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-radius: 2px; display: block; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px 6px 6px 0px; padding: 0px 6px; white-space: nowrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Keystone XL pipeline</font></a></li><li class="topic-list-item" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); list-style: none; float: left;"><a href="https://theconversation.com/topics/first-nations-26289" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-radius: 2px; display: block; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px 6px 6px 0px; padding: 0px 6px; white-space: nowrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">First Nations</font></a></li><li class="topic-list-item" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); list-style: none; float: left;"><a href="https://theconversation.com/topics/andres-manuel-lopez-obrador-39700" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-radius: 2px; display: block; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px 6px 6px 0px; padding: 0px 6px; white-space: nowrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Andrés Manuel López Obrador</font></a></li><li class="topic-list-item" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); list-style: none; float: left;"><a href="https://theconversation.com/topics/wetsuweten-first-nation-63844" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-radius: 2px; display: block; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px 6px 6px 0px; padding: 0px 6px; white-space: nowrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Wet'suwet'en First Nation</font></a></li><li class="topic-list-item" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); list-style: none; float: left;"><a href="https://theconversation.com/topics/transcanada-63846" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-radius: 2px; display: block; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px 6px 6px 0px; padding: 0px 6px; white-space: nowrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">TransCanada</font></a></li><li class="topic-list-item" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); list-style: none; float: left;"><a href="https://theconversation.com/topics/wetsuweten-64933" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-radius: 2px; display: block; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px 6px 6px 0px; padding: 0px 6px; white-space: nowrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Wet'suwet'en</font></a></li><li class="topic-list-item" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); list-style: none; float: left;"><a href="https://theconversation.com/topics/coastal-gaslink-64934" style="text-decoration-line: none; 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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">tar sands</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">teck mine killed, led by 1st nations</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">an </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/21/nobel-prize-winners-justin-trudeau-teck-frontier-mine" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">open letter</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, 42 Nobel laureates implored the federal government to "act with the moral clarity required" to tackle the global climate crisis and stop Teck Resources' </span><a href="https://www.teck.com/operations/canada/projects/frontier-project/frontier-project" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.5; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">proposed</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Frontier tar sands mine.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Climate Justice and Indigenous Rights Advocates Rally in Solidarity With Wet'suwet'en People as RCMP Continue Raids</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On February 8, 2020, a Wet'suwet'en solidarity event stopped a Toronto train at Dufferin Street and Bartlett Avenue in Toronto.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By Julia Conley, Common Dreams. Originally published on Common Dreams under CC BY-SA 3.0 US.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>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.</b></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">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. </font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">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.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">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.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“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.”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">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.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“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.”</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">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.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Climate action leader Greta Thunberg also expressed support for the Wet'suwet'en on social media.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Indigenous rights equals climate justice,” Thunberg tweeted.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div><div><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2019/07/the-terrifying-possibility-of-what-a-christian-nationalist-america-could-look-like/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2019/07/the-terrifying-possibility-of-what-a-christian-nationalist-america-could-look-like/</font></a></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>The terrifying possibility of what a Christian nationalist America could look like</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Chauncey DeVega / Salon July 23, 2019</font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The most compelling speculative fiction takes something about the world as it exists and alters it in such a way that the familiar is made into something provocative. This disruption of the familiar lies at the heart of the best speculative fiction.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">America </font></font><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">at present is already a surreal nightmare. </span><a href="https://www.salon.com/2019/06/21/psychiatrist-john-gartner-two-years-ago-i-compared-trump-to-hitler-people-didnt-believe-me/" target="blank" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" outline="outline" none="none" margin="margin" px="px" padding="padding" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" transition="transition" color="color" s="s" ease="ease" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">A mentally unwell</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> ignorant violent </span><a href="https://www.salon.com/2019/07/15/trumps-racist-outburst-was-unbelievably-vile-but-why-is-anyone-surprised/" target="blank" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" outline="outline" none="none" margin="margin" px="px" padding="padding" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" transition="transition" color="color" s="s" ease="ease" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">racist</a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large"> sexist greedy and cruel reality TV show host is president. He leads a political cult. Christian Nationalists and Christian Dominionists </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/11/trump-administration-evangelical-influence-support" target="blank" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" box-sizing="box-sizing" border-box="border-box" outline="outline" none="none" margin="margin" px="px" padding="padding" text-decoration-line="text-decoration-line" transition="transition" color="color" s="s" ease="ease" cursor="cursor" pointer="pointer" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">want to transform the United States into a “biblically correct” society </a><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">in violation of the United States Constitution and its guiding principle that church and the state should be separate. </span></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And Donald Trump, a proud and resplendent sinner, is viewed by right-wing Christians as god’s prophet and their savior. And the so-called resistance and other people of conscience are still struggling to create a cohesive and coordinated movement to oppose American fascism as birthed by Donald Trump’s adminstration.</font></p><div class="post-entry blockquote-style-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 75px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><div class="inner-post-entry entry-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div id="content-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="p2_34" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="alt_ad_block story-page-in-content-graph-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="teadsNative" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></font></div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Michael Pence — Trump’s vice president — <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-pence-hhs-special-report/as-trump-rewrites-health-rules-pence-sees-conservative-agenda-born-again-idUSKCN1T0176" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">is a Christian Fascist</a> who does his movement’s bidding as he and the Republican Party work to overturn women’s reproductive rights and freedoms as part of <a href="https://www.salon.com/2019/05/31/alabama-obscenity-infamous-new-law-equates-abortion-with-crimes-of-hitler-and-stalin/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">an overall assault on human rights and human dignity</a> in America and around the world. Pence and the Christian Right’s obsessions with supposedly “protecting the unborn” and “living the principles of Jesus Christ” (their distorted version of him) does not extend to having any empathy or sympathy for the brown and black babies, children, and adults being held in Trump’s concentration camps and otherwise terrorized by Trump’s regime.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><div class="p3_34" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The corporation increasingly has power which rivals if not surpasses the nation-state. New technologies are radically altering the labor market and how people make sense of and perform their own identities</b>.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> For example: the algorithm distributes resources and shapes individual’s desires, wants and life chances — all the while it remains invisible to most people. The American people are amusing themselves to death in a society where there are very high levels of loneliness but they are also “hyper-connected” to one another online. In total, the American people are under constant surveillance by corporations and the state. But <a href="https://fpif.org/participatory-totalitarianism/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">most Americans do this willingly through <b>participatory totalitarianism</b></a>.</span></font></font></font></font></p><div class="p4_34" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://darcyvanpoelgeest.com/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Director and screenwriter Darcy Van Poelgeest’s</a> powerful new graphic novel series <a href="https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/little-bird" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">“Little Bird’</a> (from publisher Image Comics) is some version of this present-day America and its malignant reality projected forward into the future.</font></font></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 17px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"lil Bird” </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(with art by Ian Bertram and colors by Matt Hollingsworth) tells the story of a Christian nationalist America led by the religious zealot “Bishop” who rules from the “New Vatican” in a decades-long war of conquest against Canada...[1st nations 12 yo girl]</span></font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">dn 619</font></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; 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vertical-align: top;">CBC</span> News ahead of its official release today, says that “We do know that thousands of Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA (two-spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and asexual) have been lost to the Canadian genocide to date” and are the result of “state actions and inactions rooted in colonialism and colonial ideologies.”</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><div class="topics" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 30px; width: 635px; vertical-align: top;"><div class="label" style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: bottom; text-transform: uppercase; display: inline-block; margin-right: 10px; font-weight: 900;">TOPICS:</div><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; 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The lease was canceled after a federal court overturned the ban in 2018. Lawsuits are currently underway.</font></td></tr><tr class="even" style="background: rgb(250, 250, 250) !important;"><td class="text" title="Location" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Boardman and Clatskanie</font></td><td class="text sorting_1" title="State" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OR</font></td><td class="text " title="Facility" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Morrow Pacific Coal Export Terminals</font></td><td class="text " title="Fossil fuel" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Coal</font></td><td class="date " title="Plans announced" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2012</font></td><td class="text " title="Current status and related regulations" style="border-right: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Withdrawn after state denied key permit in 2014</font></td></tr><tr class="odd"><td class="text" title="Location" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Clatskanie</font></td><td class="text sorting_1" title="State" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OR</font></td><td class="text " title="Facility" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kinder Morgan Coal Export Terminal</font></td><td class="text " title="Fossil fuel" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Coal</font></td><td class="date " title="Plans announced" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2012</font></td><td class="text " title="Current status and related regulations" style="border-right: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Withdrawn in 2013 after electric utility expressed concern about coal dust</font></td></tr><tr class="even" style="background: rgb(250, 250, 250) !important;"><td class="text" title="Location" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Coos Bay</font></td><td class="text sorting_1" title="State" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OR</font></td><td class="text " title="Facility" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Project Mainstay</font></td><td class="text " title="Fossil fuel" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Coal</font></td><td class="date " title="Plans announced" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2011</font></td><td class="text " title="Current status and related regulations" style="border-right: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Withdrawn in 2013</font></td></tr><tr class="odd"><td class="text" title="Location" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Coos Bay</font></td><td class="text sorting_1" title="State" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OR</font></td><td class="text " title="Facility" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jordan Cove LNG</font></td><td class="text " title="Fossil fuel" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Liquefied Natural Gas</font></td><td class="date " title="Plans announced" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2004</font></td><td class="text " title="Current status and related regulations" style="border-right: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Federal permit rejected in 2016. State water-quality permit, required for a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit, rejected in 2019. The company may appeal or file a new application.</font></td></tr><tr class="even" style="background: rgb(250, 250, 250) !important;"><td class="text" title="Location" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Warrenton</font></td><td class="text sorting_1" title="State" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OR</font></td><td class="text " title="Facility" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oregon LNG</font></td><td class="text " title="Fossil fuel" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Liquefied Natural Gas</font></td><td class="date " title="Plans announced" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2004</font></td><td class="text " title="Current status and related regulations" style="border-right: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Project began as an import proposal. Withdrawn in 2016</font></td></tr><tr class="odd"><td class="text" title="Location" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Anacortes</font></td><td class="text sorting_1" title="State" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WA</font></td><td class="text " title="Facility" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Shell Refinery oil-by-rail</font></td><td class="text " title="Fossil fuel" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil</font></td><td class="date " title="Plans announced" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2013</font></td><td class="text " title="Current status and related regulations" style="border-right: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Withdrawn in 2016</font></td></tr><tr class="even" style="background: rgb(250, 250, 250) !important;"><td class="text" title="Location" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bellingham</font></td><td class="text sorting_1" title="State" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WA</font></td><td class="text " title="Facility" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gateway Pacific Terminal</font></td><td class="text " title="Fossil fuel" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Coal</font></td><td class="date " title="Plans announced" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2011</font></td><td class="text " title="Current status and related regulations" style="border-right: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Withdrawn in 2017 after Army Corps of Engineers denied permit</font></td></tr><tr class="odd"><td class="text" title="Location" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bellingham</font></td><td class="text sorting_1" title="State" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WA</font></td><td class="text " title="Facility" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BP export terminal expansion</font></td><td class="text " title="Fossil fuel" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil</font></td><td class="date " title="Plans announced" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2000</font></td><td class="text " title="Current status and related regulations" style="border-right: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">BP built an extension of its oil export facilities in 2001, without first undergoing an environmental review. A citizen-filed suit in 2005 forced an Army Corps of Engineers environmental review. The final impact statement is still incomplete.</font></td></tr><tr class="even" style="background: rgb(250, 250, 250) !important;"><td class="text" title="Location" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hoquiam</font></td><td class="text sorting_1" title="State" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WA</font></td><td class="text " title="Facility" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">County International Bulk Export Terminal</font></td><td class="text " title="Fossil fuel" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Coal</font></td><td class="date " title="Plans announced" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2015</font></td><td class="text " title="Current status and related regulations" style="border-right: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Withdrawn in 2016</font></td></tr><tr class="odd" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);"><td class="text" title="Location" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Longview</font></td><td class="text sorting_1" title="State" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">WA</font></td><td class="text " title="Facility" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Millenium Bulk Terminals</font></td><td class="text " title="Fossil fuel" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Coal</font></td><td class="date " title="Plans announced" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-right: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2012</font></td><td class="text " title="Current status and related regulations" style="border-right: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-left: 1px solid rgb(187, 187, 187); border-top: 1px solid rgba(255, 255, 255, 0) !important; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230) !important; border-image: initial !important; padding: 10px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">State rejected key permit in 2017, and a federal lawsuit ensued. As of April 2019, a federal judge had dismissed portions of the lawsuit but other aspects remained under consideration.</font></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></div></div></div></div></div>