Analysis

Two years after B.C. legislated the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), busloads of RCMP officers arrived on Wet’suwet’en territory in northwest B.C. They were there to enforce a civil injunction against land defenders acting on the authority of Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs to prevent the Coastal GasLink pipeline from being built on unceded Indigenous land.

Despite decades of climate conferences, promises, and deals, methane and carbon dioxide emissions have continued to rise at faster than ever rates. Barry Saxifrage has the receipts.