Why The UN Is Getting Involved With 3 Big BC Energy Projects – HuffPost Canada

Indigenous rights are at stake, the UN says.

The United Nations is criticizing three large-scale, controversial B.C. energy projects over what it calls the alarming treatment of Indigenous people by corporations and governments.

The UN’s Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination released a decision last month calling for Canada to freeze the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, Coastal GasLink project and BC Hydro’s Site C dam construction until proper consent is obtained from all communities impacted.

All three projects exemplify some Indigenous groups’ ongoing struggle to protect their traditional territories from environmentally harmful projects that could irreparably harm their rights, culture and way of life.