suspenseful music
We're just doing some surveying at two creeks here
I was told to give you a card If you guys show up
Coastal Gaslink, TransCanada
You know you guys don't have permission be here right?
I'm not aware of anything. I'm just here as safety.
This is traditional... Unist'ot'en territory
If you would like us to leave, we'll leave.
You know TransCanada has already been warned right?
Equipment will be confiscated if you guys return.
singing
The pipelines are going to go right through where the salmon spawn
And that's where we decided to put the action camp.
Last year we put a cabin right smack in the way of the pipeline so that
they would not go through and we just recently
last year we fenced it off because we saw ribbons in there for drill pads
for them to do test drills so they could drill a pipe right under the river
We've been hearing all the media of all these pipes breaking
and waterways getting damaged
and we're just not going to accept that risk
cause we don't want to be 25 years 10 years down the road telling our kids
oh we used to hunt moose here and we used to fish.
We've never ceded or surrendered our land to anybody here.
There's no treaty.
There's no relationship built with any government in the past.
None of our people signed anything to let them make decisions on our territory
Heavy trucks rolling by
Tomorrow morning at 3, we may see some trucks attempting to get through
to log the right of way. And we're going to have to differentiate them.
So we're going to go through all the peaceful avenues we can
But the way of the warrior is you go through and expend all peaceful
avenues first. And when all those fail, it's war.
And that is the way of the warrior.
Drums
Singing
All this food in front of me.
Wooden spoon tapping on a bowl
We're worried we put this cabin right in route of the PTP and Enbridge pipeline
The GPS route, that's where this cabin sits now and they have now since
moved it upstream about 5 kilometers?
It's a half a kilometer to two kilometers away.
By way of them actually mending their project and changing the location of their crossing
We decided to start building more infrastructure in their way again.
So we did a call for people come out and assist us in the construction of a pit house
And a pit house went directly in the path of the Pacific Trails Pipeline
deliberately because the Pacific Trails was farther along than the rest of the pipelines
In their permitting processes.
Chainsaw
This is the blockader's dream!
Those have been doing this for awhile,
Yeah some people build platforms, and sleeping dragons.
I built a whole fuckin hah ha ha
I built a blockade!!!
It's not just a blockade. It's also a real dwelling.
This is a part of the decolonization and returning to the land
and returning to the old ways that ... talk about all the time.
But you still have to nail something to hold that together right?
laughing
We've been living here for two years and we've already been brought up culturally
... and I are both culturally brought up and we are living culturally now
We get all our own meats and gather our own berries, and make sure we put away
enough food to last us the whole winter and this year I put away 100 fish
So I jarred all that salmon
We've got sweet potato, moose head-cheese ribs, deer meat, some goat meat,
a lot of salmon, some groundhog,
Berries that we got last season. Huckleberries, a lot of jams
This all is in case they do block us because there have been threats
that they will block us from the other end
That's why we're preparing food.
We have food cached all over the territory
Our people have had enough and we're not just going to stand here and
take the bullying and take it without a fight.
We've had enough of these spoiled brats stealing off our lands and
not accepting no for an answer and we're gonna be the stern parent and
Say no, you're not coming in.
moose call
Could be TransCanada cause they're the ones that didn't submit their route through here yet
But I know Enbridge has wanted to come in here Pacific Trails is on this side.
We didn't know where TransCanada wanted to go so this probably TransCanada coming back in
They did put steaks in here before and we ripped them all out a couple years ago.
About three years ago, we came out and tore them all out.
But this whole area between here and the truck, that valley, that's where
they want to run all the pipelines through
There's no freakin way we're gonna let any of those guys through.
So what if we told you that the federal government doesn't have jurisdiction
on our territory?
50% of your proposed project is on Wet'suwet'en territory.
And all the hereditary chiefs have said 100% no to this project.
We...
We have the final say. Not the federal government.
Not the provincial government.
Well uh. We... I... I hear what you're saying umm and we're following like I said
the regulatory process that we have in front of us and we can talk to you
about some of the conditions that include environmental monitoring
and a lot of surveys. umm environmental surveys and we can talk to you about that...
And what if we told you we know that's bullshit and it doesn't work?
You look at the state of our whole planet What it's in and
All our water is being destroyed the air is destroyed
all the trees are being destroyed.
You can't continue to bulldoze over my people.
Our lands. Our final say.
No pipelines will be coming on our land.
Drumming and singing