[news] A Stand in the Forest: Deh Cho Resistance to the Mackenzie Pipeline

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

"Recently, officials of Canada's newly elected Conservative government signaled their unwillingness to let the Dehcho stand in the way of the project, which proponents want to start building in 2008 and finish a few years later. Jim Prentice, minister of Indian affairs, declared that the pipeline, which still needs regulatory approval, would be built along the Mackenzie Valley with or without the tribe's blessing."

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"Grand Chief Herb Norwegian said that if the government tried to expropriate Dehcho land for pipeline construction, the tribe would retaliate with litigation and possibly blockades."

URL: http://mostlywater.org/node/7708