Lubicon Resist Canadian Pipeline Expansion
Mar 3rd, 2008
The traditional territory of the indigenous Lubicon nation in what is commonly known as Alberta, Canada is already overrun with 1,700 oil and gas wells, which have generated $13 billion for energy companies since 1980. The Lubicon have never ceded any of their territory and were not consulted or paid for this exploitation, making it illegal under Canadian law.
Now the company TransCanada is planning a massive natural gas pipeline across Lubicon territory. This pipeline would transport fuel to the Alberta Tar Sands project, to allow increased extraction of this dirty fossil fuel. Not far from the planned pipeline location and just west of Lubicon territory, Bruce Power has proposed the construction of a nuclear power plant. Trans Canada is a major owner of Bruce Power.
Friends of the Lubicon is organizing against these plans, and particularly calling for help from any shareholders in Trans Canada.