Corporations calling for energy projects to be declared in the “national interest” could put land defenders at risk - Peace Brigades International-Canada

Corporations calling for energy projects to be declared in the “national interest” could put land defenders at risk - Peace Brigades International-Canada

Photo: In April 2015, Public Safety Canada's Government Operations Centre (GOC) reportedly saw Unist’ot’en opposition to the Coastal GasLink pipeline as a risk to Canada’s “national interest”. By January 2019, “Canadian police were prepared to shoot Indigenous land defenders blockading construction of [the Coastal GasLink pipeline] in northern British Columbia, according to documents seen by