First Nations will protest, but Trans Mountain pipeline a done deal, Liberals say – CBC

‘Nothing that’s happened has changed our mind that this is a good decision,’ resources minister says

Sep 07, 2017

While some Indigenous activists gear up to fight expansion of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline on the streets and in court, federal Liberal cabinet ministers say there’s no going back on their decision to approve the $7.4-billion project.

Inspired by some of the tactics used by protesters at Standing Rock in North Dakota, the Secwepemc Nation, situated along the Trans Mountain route, said Wednesday it was preparing to build “10 tiny houses” in the path of the project’s construction as a protest and with the hope of forcing a delay.

“The house is a symbol of the community’s opposition to the pipeline and a message to the Trudeau government that the pipeline does not have Secwepemc consent, a right protected under the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).”