which Chiefs?
the hereditary chiefs or the band council chiefs ?
Everybody from Horgan to Trudeau to the pipeline company are confused as to who does what and who has the say
which is all bulshit cuz they could easily hire a consultant to tell them WTF is up, instead they went for the low hanging fruit
but what I hear you saying is this is the average wetsueten band members fault because they voted in a Band council who was not authorized to make the deal ?
As for band councils here is a band council in every Band in Canada where they run the res cuz its part of the Indian act, so the pipeline company asks whom to deal with and were told by government to deal with the band council, they offer the band council blankets and beads to get a deal, the bands in the middle of nowhere with nothing to lose sign on, the bands who have something to lose like the Wetsueten and Gixtsan are harder to deal with
the gas line yo Kitimat has looked like a non-starter for years due to the market price of LNG, Petronnas gave up on lelu and last week a moratorium was placed on Lelu island development
This project has been ignored until this judge granted an injunction in favor of the pipeline co and they decided to go ahead
The big question in my mind is why did the Judge rule for the pipeline company when there are precedents in law that don't jive with her ruling ?
It would look like the impartial judiciary ain't so impartial, could be the fix is in at least until that ruling gets struck down, maybe not war, actualy not really about a pipeline, definatley about land claims ... think Delga muukw 2