ACTIVIST CLAIM: Anti-Coastal GasLink activists harass TC Energy Board chair and RBC Executive at private residences claiming violence against Indigenous people.
THE FACTS: Radical activist groups have a history of harassing people at their private residences. No one’s family should be subjected to this – It’s just wrong.
THE SOURCES:
Activists in Canada Build Construction Site on Pipeline Executives’ Front Lawns
Here are some facts and sources to have a reasoned conversation about Coastal GasLink:
- Radical activist groups have a history of harassing public figures at their private residences. In 2020, Coastal GasLink protestors harassed BC Premier John Horgan and his wife at their own home. They were charged criminally charged, and asked for an apology by the Beecher Bay band First Nation for entering their territory without permission.
https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/first-nation-wants-anti-pipeline-group-to-apologize-for-protest-outside-premiers-home-4679555 - Activists have found social license to become more aggressive in their actions through the legitimization of harassing people at their homes by Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault. As a Greenpeace activist, he and others climbed onto Alberta Premier Ralph Klein and his wife’s property and harassed them.
https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/braid-greenpeace-prankster-becomes-the-federal-environment-minister - Indigenous leaders fear that stunt activism from environmental organizations has become a form of “Eco-Colonialism” where many non-indigenous groups claim to represent Indigenous voices and use them as political pawns
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/np-view-listen-to-first-nations-not-the-mob\ - Supporting the Canadian oil and gas industry means that RBC is supporting the 13,900+ Indigenous workers directly employed in the oil and gas industry.
FINAL-Going-Beyond-Supporting-Indigenous-Employment-in-Canadas-Energy-Industry-Dec2020-3.pdf (careersinenergy.ca) - Anti-LNG activists continue to talk over the voices of all the elected First Nation councils that support the project and have signed benefits agreements for their communities.
https://www.coastalgaslink.com/sustainability/indigenous-relations/
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