• Sign up for the Daily Digest E-mail
  • Facebook
  • X
  • LinkedIn

BOE Report

Sign up
  • Home
  • BOE Intel
  • Headlines
    • Latest Headlines
    • Featured Companies
    • Columns
    • Discussions
  • Well Activity
    • Well Licences
    • Well Activity Map
  • Property Listings
  • Land Sales
  • M&A Activity
    • M&A Database
    • AER Transfers
  • Markets
  • Rig Counts/Data
    • CAOEC Rig Count
    • Baker Hughes Rig Count
    • USA Rig Count
    • Data
      • Canada Oil Market Data
      • Canada NG Market Data
      • USA Market Data
      • Data Downloads
  • Jobs

Coastal Gas Link blockades a ‘dress rehearsal’ for future project fights: Kenney

February 11, 20202:43 PM The Canadian Press0 Comments

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney

CALGARY – Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says he’s concerned blockades in support of First Nations opponents to a northern British Columbia natural gas pipeline are a “dress rehearsal” for opposition to future energy projects.

Demonstrations have blocked railways, ports and bridges across the country in solidarity with those fighting the Coastal Gas Link project that crosses the traditional territory of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation.

Kenney describes the protests as “ecocolonialism” from southern Canadians “projecting their own fringe political agenda.”

He says they are not about Indigenous rights because 20 elected First Nations band councils along the pipeline route support the project.

He adds anyone demonstrating because of the its climate impact is also hypocritical.

Kenney says that’s because the pipeline would enable countries such as China to burn liquefied natural gas from Canada instead of dirtier coal.

“This is not about Indigenous people. It’s not about carbon emissions. It’s about a hard-left ideology that is frankly opposed to the entire modern industrial economy and I think it’s about time that our police services demonstrated that this is a country that respects the rule of law,” Kenney told reporters in Calgary on Tuesday.

“Allowing people to completely destabilize the lives of tens of thousands of people, costing all of us untold costs in our economy by shutting down ports and bridges, highways and railways, in opposition to the express democratic wishes of First Nations is outrageous and it has to end.”

Follow BOE Report
  • Facebook
  • X
  • LinkedIn

Sign up for the BOE Report Daily Digest E-mail

Successfully subscribed

Latest Headlines
  • Pieridae announces 2024 guidance
  • Headwater Exploration Inc. announces 2024 budget and operations update
  • Suncor Energy announces Kent Ferguson as new Senior Vice President of Strategy, Sustainability and Corporate Development
  • The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers responds to the federal government emissions cap framework
  • CAOEC opposes the federal government’s oil and gas emissions cap

Return to Home
Alberta GasMonthly Avg.
CAD/GJ
Market Data by TradingView

    Report Error







    Note: The page you are currently on will be sent with your report. If this report is about a different page, please specify.

    About
    • About BOEReport.com
    • In the News
    • Terms of Use
    • Privacy Policy
    • Editorial Policy
    Resources
    • App
    • Widgets
    • Notifications
    • Daily Digest E-mail
    Get In Touch
    • Advertise
    • Post a Job
    • Contribute
    • Contact
    • Report Error
    Featured In
    • Rigger Talk
    Data Partner
    BOE Network
    © 2023 Stack Technologies Ltd.