“We just want to protect what is ours.”Canada

LNG Canada - Citizen Monitoring Group

Overview

LNG Canada, financed by JBIC, is a proposed LNG project owned by Shell, Petronas, Mitsubishi Corp, Petro China, and Korea Gas Corporation.

The project consists of an export facility, a proposed expansion (Phase 2), and the Coastal Gaslink Pipeline; the export facility and pipeline are completed, but the expansion has not yet begun.

LNG Canada, the expansion, and its pipeline must be considered as a single project due to their interconnected nature.

Fossil gas is to be fracked from the Montney Formation fracking fields and then flow through the Coastal GasLink pipeline to arrive at LNG Canada’s terminal.

Criticisms

Ignoring the human rights and laws of Indigenous nations

Contributing to environmental damage and colonial legacies in Canada

Supporting militarized violence, psychological warfare, harassment and dispossession against land defenders and others

Constructing without consent from Indigenous leaders and people

And more.

Pipeline Construction - Citizen Monitoring Group

Freda and ceremonial fire by Land Defenders (Virginia Monk & Chris Heffley)

“Our communities are filled with loving and generous people. We want our entire community and others. This project will not take care of us, we do not need this project. There are alternatives and that is what we should be pursuing...”

“...It is quite simple. We do not want more than what we have, we just want to protect what is ours.”

Chief Na’Moks

Hereditary Chief of the Wet’suwet’en

Michael Toledano

Violence for LNG Profit

In the name of the pipeline for the JBIC-financed LNG Canada, land defenders have faced militarized violence. KKR, a private equity firm located in New York, is the majority owner of the pipeline. The firm is run by General David Petraeus, previously a top U.S. Army commander who has taken strong action to “neutralize risks” for projects including oil and gas. His field manual, once used in Iraq, Afghanistan, has now been used in Wet’suwet’en territory and the people.

A militarized government police force was permitted to conduct multiple raids on the Wet’suwet’en and other land defenders peacefully occupying their own territory. Land defenders and journalists were unjustly arrested in the process, including Chief Dsta’hyl. Cabin doors were chainsawed down, people dragged over broken glass, guns pointed, and more. This type of militarized violence has been well documented, including in a recent award-winning film called YINTAH.