Last Updated on April 10, 2025
TransCanada — one of the Tar Sands pipeline companies — isn’t satisfied with undermining environmental laws; it doesn’t even abide by the pipeline safety codes. As TransCanada whistleblower Evan Vokes received a national award yesterday for exposing the TransCanada safety scandal, politicians in Canada are asking Canadians and Americans to trust the pipeline companies and government agencies responsible. In fact, even as oil continues to ooze from earlier ship accidents on the coast of British Columbia, investors and politicians continue to hype the alleged economic benefits to government and industry of expanding oil shipping, all the while neglecting to explain why they can’t clean up the messes that already exist.
Across the world right now, Indigenous peoples are facing a renewed assault on their lands, rights, and ways of life.
From extractive industries pushing deeper into ancestral territories, to governments rolling back hard-won protections,
the threat is global—and it is growing.
What makes this moment especially dangerous is how little attention it receives.
Stories like this are disappearing in real time. Mainstream media
barely covers it and the coverage is fragmented. The public is left without the context
needed to understand what is truly at stake.
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