🚨 JOINT PRESS RELEASE 🚨 Mark Carney’s push to double LNG Canada as a “nation-building” project ignores the right of Indigenous peoples to free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) and asks taxpayers to underwrite a project with no clear business case. “Canada is once again forcing projects through that relegate Indigenous communities, lands, and waters to the sacrifice zones of oil and gas expansion. Mark Carney advertises LNG as “nation-building” despite foreign entities privatizing the benefits of a dying industry, while leaving Canadians to bear the brunt of the bill. In this new era of ‘economic reconciliation,’ oil and gas officials seek to reduce our presence to stakeholders in industry, and not as the true rightsholders to the land where these projects are taking place and benefit from. This is not nation-building, but rather an attempt to destabilize Indigenous sovereignty by making our communities agents of industry.” - Willo Prince, Campaign Manager, Indigenous Climate Action Read more about it on our website: https://lnkd.in/gvSTWZ3T Joint press release with Greenpeace Canada, Stand.earth , Climate Action Network Canada , Change Course , Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs (UBCIC), Gidimt'en Checkpoint, Investors For Paris Compliance, Pension Wealth & Planet Health, Canadian Association Of Physicians For The Environment (CAPE BC), Georgia Strait Alliance, Equal Routes, For Our Kids
