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NO THANKS, Members of a Canadian indigenous tribe turned down $267,000 per person to allow a pipeline to be built through their land
The Lax Kw’alaams Band, a Canadian first nations people living in a remote part of British Columbia, turned down an offer amounting to $267,000 per person to allow a natural gas pipeline and processing facility to be built on their lands.
Malaysian energy giant Petronas and its partners had offered the 3,600-member band a total of $960 million to allow construction of its $30-billion-dollar Pacific NorthWest LNG terminal and Prince Rupert gas pipeline to proceed.
The band wasn’t interested.
“This is not a money issue: this is environmental and cultural,” the band said in a statement. Representatives of the band voted unanimously against the offer.
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http://www.cbc.ca/radio/newfire/season-finale-political-panel-1.3174421
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thank you for tapping into this flowing vein, here in flyover country USA our aboriginal folks are pretty disorganized and beaten-down but i’m hoping that the models coming out of resistance movements in canada and all get hacked into uses hereabouts.
http://lastbestnews.com/site/2015/09/totem-pole-unites-tribes-in-opposition-to-coal-projects/