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Leaders of the Blackfoot Confederacy in Canada and the Great Sioux Nation and Ponca tribe in the U.S. plan to sign their declaration at a ceremony Wednesday.
Tribes representing tens of thousands of indigenous people in the U.S. and Canada will be signing a declaration against the planned Keystone XL oil pipeline.
Leaders of the Blackfoot Confederacy in Canada and the Great Sioux Nation and Ponca tribe in the U.S. plan to sign their declaration at a ceremony Wednesday at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, the city where pipeline developer TransCanada Corp. is based.
“There is a historic union between first Americans in Canada and Native Americans in the United States,” said Casey Camp-Horinek, a councilwoman with the Ponca tribe in Oklahoma. “Long before a border ever existed on a map, a fictitious line on a map, we were a united peoples in our approach to care of Mother Earth.”
The 16-page declaration highlights the tribes’ treaty rights and their opposition to the proposed $8-billion (U.S.) pipeline, which would move Canadian crude south to Nebraska, where the pipeline would connect with an existing Keystone pipeline network that would take the oil to Texas Gulf Coast refineries.
“Greed knows no limits, and those in the way are simply collateral damage to corporate profits,” said Brandon Sazue, chairman of the Crow Creek Sioux in South Dakota and one of the leaders of the event.
Environmentalists fighting construction of the Keystone XL pipeline remain confident of stopping the project despite U.S. President Donald Trump's latest executive order aimed at speeding up development of cross-border infrastructure.
Currently, the U.S. secretary of state has authority to issue permits for cross-border infrastructure such as pipelines. The executive order clarifies that the president will make the decision on whether to issue such permits.
That move comes less than two weeks after Trump issued a new presidential permit for the project — replacing the one he granted in March 2017 — with the intention of speeding up development of the controversial pipeline, which would help ship heavy oil from Alberta's oilsands to the U.S. Gulf Coast. #StopKXL
Moving defiantly to kick-start the long-stalled Keystone XL oil pipeline, U.S. President Donald Trump issues a new presidential permit for the project — two years after he first approved it and more than a decade after it was first proposed.
Trump said the permit issued Friday replaces one granted in March 2017. The order is intended speed up development of the controversial pipeline, which would ship crude oil from western Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast.
A federal judge blocked the project in November, saying the Trump administration had not fully considered potential oil spills and other impacts. U.S. District Judge Brian Morris ordered a new environmental review.
Canada's natural resources minister wants his American counterpart to step up and help on stalled pipelines, calling the long-delayed Keystone XL project "very important" to both countries.
Amarjeet Sohi met with U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry on Wednesday in Houston at the CERAWeek energy conference. The focus was on TransCanada's Keystone XL project and Enbridge's Line 3 replacement pipeline. #cdnpoli
Today’s speakers—Mechelle Sky Walker, Tom something, Michelle Free-LaMere, Steven Tamayo, Marcel Killsenemy, Jason Valandra, Cyrus Walker, and Alex Munson. #stopKXL #mniwiconi (at Nebraska State Capitol Building)