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consultation is not consent.
The Energy Transfer family of companies obtained financing for the Dakota Access Pipeline by telling banks they had consulted with the Standing Rock Lakota Tribe. Consultation is not consent. Consent is the standard set in the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. But banks did not learn their lesson. Here are 3 tar sands pipelines banks are funding right now in violation of indigenous people's right to Free, Prior, and Informed Consent.
The Pipelines
The Pipelines
Source: stopline3.org
Line 3 (Enbridge)
Impacted Treaty Territories: Anishinaabeg (1854, 1855, and 1867), First Nations (Treaties 3, 5 & 8)
Direct indigenous opposition: White Earth Band of Ojibwe, Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Red Lake Band of Ojibwe, and Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe...[full listing of First Nations coming soon].
Indigenous-led resistance resources:
Source: Turtle Island News
TransMountain (Kinder Morgan)
Direct indigenous opposition: Tsleil-Waututh Nation; Squamish Nation; Musqueam Indian Band; Coldwater Indian Band; Aitchelitz, Skowkale Shxwa:y Village, Soow Ahlie, Squiala First Nation, Tzeachten, Yakweakwioose, Skwah, Kwaw-Kwaw-Aplit & Ts’elxweyeqw Tribe et al (Sto:lo); Upper Nicola Band; and Stk’emlupsemc Te Secwepemc.
Indigenous-led resistance resources:
Tiny House Warriors (Secwepemcul'ecw Assembly)
The Sacred Trust (Tsleil-Waututh Nation)
Source: Indigenous Rising
Keystone XL (TransCanada)
Impacted Treaty Territories: Lakota & Dakota (1851 & 1868); First Nations (Treaties 4, 6, 7, & 8).
Impacted indigenous opposition: Northern Cheyenne, Cheyenne River Lakota, Lower Brule Lakota, Crow Creek Lakota, Oglala Lakota, Rosebud Lakota, Standing Rock Lakota, Yankton Lakota, Omaha, Ponca, Santee, and Winnebago...[First Nations coming soon].
Indigenous-led resistance resources: