[news] Ottawa Group Launches New Campaign to Support Lubicon Land Settlement

[Resist!ca]

WELLS, PIPELINES AND BROKEN PROMISES OTTAWA - Outaouais Lubicon Solidarity (OLS) is launching a new protest campaign today to push the Canadian government to negotiate a just settlement of Lubicon Lake Indian Nation land rights and finally end this long-standing Canadian human rights tragedy. The Lubicon Lake Indian Nation, a First Nation of approximately 500 people living in northern Alberta, retain their Aboriginal and treaty rights to their traditional lands. Negotiations with the federal and provincial governments have so far failed to resolve their outstanding land rights. Meanwhile over $13 billion in oil and gas has been taken from their Traditional Territory. The United Nations, Amnesty International and the World Council of Churches have all called on Canada to resolve this dispute.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2005/2/7/94632/26218