iT's time 2 UNLearn the BS & ReFResh..
Showing posts with label Wetsuweten. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wetsuweten. Show all posts

November 26, 2021

FAX BLITZ: to BC-RCMP/TC Energy gooFs..

 (You can too - in fact, PLEASE DO:  For justice!  Here's the link from the aws Wilderness Committee:  https://www.wildernews/ChannelYrRage

& here's my letter, for inspiration:


I'm writing to express my profound horror that you & TC Energy back the BC-RCMP's deplorable treatment / trespassing of Wet’suwet’en 1st Nations to make way for your (CGL) pipeline : Whatever you may believe/ were told by the BC-NDP, THESE are the FACTS:

●Article 10 of U.N.D.R.I.P. (UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which BC HAS instated) is V clear that “Indigenous peoples shall not be forcibly removed from their lands or territories": NOW U KNOW

●RCMP action on Wet’suwet’en territory is a shameful violation of Indigenous rights & ignores the Supreme Court of Canada ruling that recognizes Aboriginal title TO THAT AREA

●Pointing machine guns at unarmed women & journalists is totally unacceptable! These officers must be held accountable for putting civilians at risk & continuing to use force where they have NO JURISDICTION 

●That the RCMP saw fit to carry out this crass operation on behalf of a gas pipeline co. EXACTLY WHEN emergency resources were needed for flood relief in southern BC proves who the force - & YOUR CO. - prioritize (& it's NOT US BCers!)

●TC Energy has exhibited nothing but entitled arrogance since starting this "economic dud" (experts' words, not mine) - a reckless endeavor which belies ALL science re. Fracking/ LNG: I.E. it's polluting, uneconomical, unsustainable.. & ruins ANY chance we have at meeting BC's/ Canada's climate goals


PLEASE: Quit acting like you're God's gift to BC (you're not even BCer-approved, let alone lawful.. or even liked!) DO THE RIGHT THING & STAND DOWN. Leave Wet’suwet’en territory & the Yintah - as you were asked, by its rightful leaders/ residents, many times. Abide by the Courts & allow the Chiefs to exercise their sovereignty - before you spark an ugly war.. (YOU are the criminals here, & will lose!)


Consider yourselves warned, by just 1 of the MANY who support the Wet’suwet’en people defending their hereditary lands from your diabolical operations.


FYI: informed BCers oppose ALL fracking, LNG & new FossilFuel projects in this province. So you know.


Thank you very much.

SARAH (SAZ) CHESTERMAN



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February 11, 2020

TMX jeopaRdizes BC's biodiveRsiTy


My letter to editors --via LeadNow's tooL @ this link:
https://act.leadnow.ca/tmx-letter/


Dear editor,

The indigenous-led movement opposing the Trans Mountain expansion project (TMX) is solidly backed by Raincoast Conservation Foundation -- https://www.raincoast.org/ -- whose exemplary studies of Southern Resident Killer Whales show that our Killer Whale population --only 73 individuals as of Oct. 2019-- is critically endangered, facing serious threats "exacerbated by noise, physical disturbance & contaminants" that are having "substantial cumulative & negative effects on their chances of survival & ability to recover."  Raincoast's scientists deem this an "unquestionable emergency" requiring immediate "vital actions" to prevent the "high likelihood that Southern Resident Killer Whales will continue their spiral towards extinction" -- these include "operational measures to reduce noise & disturbance from commercial vessels traveling in/near Southern Resident foraging areas" & taking "steps to limit the cumulative effects of vessel traffic", consistent with the Species At Risk Act's Killer Whale Recovery Strategy.

Evidence submitted to the National Energy Board (NEB) showed the TMX project would lead to a sevenfold increase in tanker traffic through critical Southern Resident habitat, & the NEB in its project reconsideration report concluded “Project-related marine shipping is likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects on the Southern Resident killer whale".  The Federal Court of Appeal ruled in Aug. 2018 that Cabinet's approval of TMX failed to comply with the Species At Risk Act, yet despite updated evidence presented in Jan. 2019 by Ecojustice showing TMX-related shipping would impact endangered killer whales, federal govt. approved TMX again in June 2019.. & in Sept. 2019 Federal Court of Appeal declined to hear Ecojustice's challenge on behalf of Raincoast..

It's CLEAR our federal/provincial govts, aided by the Courts, are guilty of their own FAILURE TO UPHOLD RULE OF LAW in dismissing Canada's Species At Risk Act & reneging on their own stated intentions/promises vis-a-vis 'climate emergency' -- primarily to advance private corporate interests of the polluting fossil-fuel activities proven by leading science as KEY CAUSES exacerbating global warming.  Recalling Premier Horgan's promise to do "whatever it takes" to stop TMX, the utter hypocrisy of govt's TMX approval is further exemplified by RCMP raids on Wetsu'wet'en land defenders fighting for BC's future VS. ongoing Govt-approved UNSUSTAINABLE resource development that MAKES A MOCKERY OF 'CLIMATE ACTION' & 'RECONCILIATION'.  We need to RALLY IN SUPPORT OF INDIGENOUS-LED, SCIENCE-DRIVEN EFFORTS & show Govts we'll no longer sit in silence while they fast-track global warming & jeopardize our futures with old policies & subsidies that only guarantee THE WORST OUTCOMES!

Sincerely,

SARAH CHESTERMAN
Vancouver, BC
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January 10, 2020

My reply to BC Greens' 'leadership' email..


- in which i shouLd have included my outrage at BC Govt's gross inaction RE. Coastal Gas Link's trespassing on unceded Wet'suwet'en territory, as succinctly explained by DogwoodBC:
B.C. is refusing to meet with Wet'suwet'en chiefs, and is instead passing off the responsibility to the very pipeline company trespassing on the Indigenous community's land. Where is B.C.'s newly promised approach to respecting Indigenous rights and title 




Re:  BCGreens Leadership Contest 2020

 Jan. 7th, 2020

Dear Adam Olsen,

Thanks for your email.  As an active supporter of the BCGREENS for the past decade+, I feel my continuing activism on your party’s behalf has helped contribute to its increased successes. While further advancing GREENS’ policies/values is bound to enable the huge shifts needed for effective climate action, the latest in-party structural shifts appear to have stalled the necessary progress..

 TBH I’m extremely discouraged by the apparent absence of BC Greens’ influence on BCNDP’s actions/policies in supporting the provincial minority government.  Where is Greens’ presence in Govt’s horrifying decisions to advance harmful LNG projects in BC?  Or affecting Site-C dam’s (/Peace River valley’s) fate??  How have BCGREENS made their mark on critical BC Forestry revisions/ holding NDP to their promises of creating SUSTAINABLE industries going forward & meeting GHG reduction targets??? Why have I not had Greens’ support for my constant efforts —alongside orgs like Ancient Forest Alliance & Wilderness Committee— to stop clearcut logging of BC’s ancient old-growth forests & ban raw-log exports?  Nothing’s more important now! (These key campaigns are very close to my heart)
 
Our fast-shrinking old-growth forests —BC’s best (/ONLY) efficient C02 sequesters/ intact wildlife habitats— URGENTLY need to be protected by a MORATORIUM placed on permits to CLEARCUT these last bastions of hope for effective C02 control!  The BC NDP’s flimsy measures RE. Climate change are woefully inadequate to enable Reconciliation (via U.N.D.R.I.P.) OR safeguard BC’s communities from predicted ecosystem imbalances.. We desperately NEED our Greens to step in & fulfill their official parliamentary duties —to table science-based solutions & REJECT extinction-drivers (eg. a WOLF CULL?)  Please don’t wait until it’s too late to have your rightful say in BC’s future!  (Can’t in-party re-org WAIT?)

 If the BC NDP has been unlawfully blocking BCGreens’ rightful input in decisions/policies affecting our province —as many suspect— is it not your DUTY to publicly report such obstacles blocking due process, so we can properly respond & be included in the process, as well as show support for Greens’ inclusion in our future?  The time is NOW to apply Greens’ considerable ethics/ know-how/ resources/ values to our remade future, which will look much better with —& MUCH worse without— the priceless benefits of Greens’ involvement..

I can’t wait much longer to see more of those good public policies & collaboration across party lines mentioned in your email!
Sincerely,

SARAH (SAZ) CHESTERMAN


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January 25, 2019

My letter of SUPPORT 4 the WET'SUWET'EN

(Govt recipients' emails listed @ bottom)

 RE:  URGENT ACTION DEMANDED DUE TO UNLAWFUL VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS & TITLE OF THE WET'SUWET'EN

Dear Sir/Madam,

I & all BCers with whom I've discussed this appalling event diametrically oppose the forcible removal at gunpoint by 'fully-armed' RCMP of our Wet’suwet’en Nation’s people from their own territories, & we ask that you fulfill your responsibilities as public servants by ensuring the RCMP & Coastal GasLink respect the constitutionally-protected rights of the Wet’suwet’en people on their unceded territory.

WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF GOVERNMENT's INCESSANT & EMBARRASSING PANDERING TO POLLUTING INDUSTRIES THAT HAVE GOTTEN AWAY WITH MURDER FOR FAR TOO LONG, & HOLD US ALL BACK FROM THE CHANGES WE NEED TO MAKE TO MOVE FORWARD!

We the public need your cooperation/ legislation - ACTING not just talking on BCers' behalf - to clean up our ways & move into a thriving sustainable world with forests intact, GHGs down & oxygen levels UP.. for future generations, so we can live with ourselves & decisions made.

The decision to attack peaceful people defending their [our] land & trying mightily to help bring good results for BC's future, who've been attacked & vilified by our Govt. 'leaders' for too long, is a $$-based one that favours big-$$ polluting entities rather than the law-abiding citizens rightfully opposing these industries' continuing  [proven] destruction of the ecosystems whose health all life depends for survival.  This project puts environmental health - e.g. drinking water - at risk, & will release massive amounts of carbon pollution/GHGs into the atmosphere.

We NEED our Govts. & industries to do the right thing & start protecting OUR best interests, not those of polluting corporations putting our future, health & welfare - along with those of all living species - in jeopardy..

The principle of free, prior & informed consent requires our Courts and Governments to respect the jurisdiction of the Wet’suwet’en hereditary governance authorities, who have clearly stated that they will not allow Coastal GasLink to build a pipeline through their territory.  And as a BC citizen i agree.

Please respect the following, as per the laws to which you are bound to uphold in your position: 


1) The TransCanada Coastal GasLink pipeline does not have the collective free, prior, and informed consent of the Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs. All the Wet'suwet'en Clans have rejected the Coastal GasLink pipeline.

2) The injunction and enforcement order ignores the jurisdiction and authority of Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs' system of governance, and criminalizes land defenders.

3) We demand that the provincial government, federal government, RCMP, and industry  commit to upholding the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Anuk Nu'at'en (Wet'suwet'en laws), and that NO RCMP enforcement against Unist'ot'en/Giltseyu-Dark House take place on their unceded lands. Reconciliation and respecting UNDRIP means that Unist'ot'en's rights must be honoured.

If you have any integrity as a so-called 'leader' you must know that the injunction issued by the BC Supreme Court favours the status-quo of polluting industry scientifically proven to wreak havoc on the climate/ environmental balance on which all life depends, while violating the basic rights of legit citizens defending their land for the future benefit of all BCers.  Therefore you have a duty to uphold the "rule of law" as you yourselves claim, by respecting these people's rights & ending this wrongful police occupation immediately. Anything else is unacceptable.

Thank you very much.

Sincerely,

SARAH CHESTERMAN
VANCOUVER, BC

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