Watch this video from CTV on the growing opposition amongst First Nations who call the Burrard Inlet home to KinderMorgan's massive planned expansion of an existing Tar Sands pipeline and tanker traffic through Vancouver's waters. (Jan 11, 2012)

Watch video: http://www.ctvbc.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20120110/bc_kinder_morgan_pipeline_plan_120110/20120110?hub=BritishColumbia

Watch this video from CTV, featuring a discussion with federal industry minister Joe Oliver and a lively debate between representatives of First Nations, environmental groups and the organization "Ethical Oil." (Jan. 8, 2012)

Watch video: http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20120108/Northern-Gateway-pipeline-hearings-to-start-in-BC-120108/#ixzz1itu47dVh

In the wake of the bogus deal Enbridge attempted to foist on the Gitxsan people of Northwest BC last month to help pave the way for its controversial proposed Northern Gateway pipeline, the community has banded together in inspiring fashion - with camcorders and the Web as their weapons of choice. The Enbridge resistance has given birth to a new website, youtube and facebook pages and twitter feed which thoroughly document the opinions of elected and hereditary chiefs and citizens, community gatherings, and interactions with the RCMP and ousted treaty negotiators who sparked the crisis by signing the since-invalidated agreement with Enbridge.

The Gitxsan fired and evicted these treaty negotiators last month, in the wake of the deal signed by head negotiator Elmer Derrick, and have continued to occupy the treaty office in New Hazelton ever since. A recent failed attempt by some of the ousted treaty office staff to re-enter the building - facilitated by the RCMP - was documented on camera (scroll down). Watch some of these videos below and stay tuned to the Gitxsan's website, video and facebook pages and twitter feed to follow the issue through the eyes of the community.

RCMP Attempt to Facilitate Return of Ousted Treaty Negotiators to New Hazelton Office

Watch this series of clips by independent filmmaker Craig Delahunt from the Cohen Commission, including a key hour of testimony from the final day of ISAv hearings and interviews with experts outside the Commission.

While news emerges that a court order may have been obtained to remove Gitxsan leaders and community members who took over the Treaty office in Hazelton earlier this week - in response to a deal made with Enbridge by treaty negotiator Elmer Derrick without the knowledge or approval of the community - a new video demonstrates how the Gitxsan are banding together in this moment of crisis. The situation is summed up eloquently by one of the community matriarchs shown in the video, produced by Ardea Films:

"Today is a new beginning. Today is the day the healing will begin. Our hearts have been broken, our families have been divided. Today, we'll begin to talk, we'll begin to love; we'll begin to share and honour one another once again. So I put this out to all of us as Gitxsan people: We must stay strong, as the whole country - particularly our aboriginal neighbours - are disappointed with us ...But we must stay strong. We must stay proud."

A New Beginning from Ardea Films on Vimeo.

Watch this video from Global TV today on the ongoing controversy over the now-disputed Gitxsan First Nation deal with Enbridge. Note how Enbridge carefully videotaped the whole process, then provided it to media - complete with b-roll footage of pipeline construction jobs. The majority of the footage in this Global segment derives from a corporate press kit from Enbridge. (Dec. 6, 2011)

The Tsilhqot'in First Nations and their supporters have been at the BC Supreme Court this week, fighting for an injunction to keep Taseko Mines from commencing work on the controversial proposed Prosperity Mine - amid Tsilhqot'in traditional territory, southwest of Williams Lake. While the Harper Government recently agreed to examine a new version of the mine it already rejected last year, the BC Government has pushed ahead, granting the company permits to begin work. The result is an accelerating stand-off between First Nations, Taseko and the Clark Government - highlighted at this rally outside the courthouse on Monday.

Check out this new video from the Natural Resources Defense Council - narrated by Hollywood actor Kevin Bacon - on the battle to protect BC's iconic Spirit Bear and its habitat in the Great Bear Rainforest from the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline and supertankers loaded with Alberta bitumen. The 1 min video, entitled "Big Oil Threatens the Spirit Bear Coast", includes footage from BC filmmakers Ian McAllister and Damien Gillis, and is further evidence of the growing international interest in the Enbridge issue.

At a recent Nature Vancouver event, Damien Gillis discussed the proposed doubling of Deltaport and conversion of prime farmland, fish and wildlife habitat into an industrialized Foreign Trade Zone - disputing the myth advanced by the Port Authority's CEO that farmland has little economic or food security value for the Lower Mainland. "The real question here is: 'Whose Economy? Whose Benefit? And what kind of a future do we want to have?'"

In the wake of the discovery of catastrophic Infectious Salmon Anemia in wild Pacific sockeye this week, The Common Sense Canadian revisits Damien Gillis' 2009 photo essay documenting how the same deadly disease wiped out the Chilean salmon farming industry in a few short years. While Chile doesn't have wild salmon like BC, the ISA outbreak wrought significant cultural and socio-economic devastation on the country. Now it threatens to destroy BC's wild salmon stocks. Damien visited Chile's Region 10 in September 2009, at the height of the crisis - here's what he saw.

Click the image below to view the slide show.

• Welcome to Region 10 Welcome to Region 10
• Scientific Concerns Scientific Concerns
• Unleashing the ROV Unleashing the ROV
• Looking beneath the surface Looking beneath the surface
• Captain of the Camera Captain of the Camera
• Uneasy Juxtaposition Uneasy Juxtaposition
• The junk they leave behind The junk they leave behind
• Marine Harvest Junk Yard Marine Harvest Junk Yard
• Net Loss Net Loss
• Closed for Business Closed for Business
• Dismantled Farms Dismantled Farms
• Ghost Farm Ghost Farm
• No Sign of them No Sign of them
• All that remains All that remains
• ... And a few empty chemical containers ... And a few empty chemical containers
• Hazards of the job Hazards of the job
• How to dispose of dead fish How to dispose of dead fish
• Messy neighbours Messy neighbours
• Feed bags Feed bags
• White Flag bag White Flag bag
• Crap from the farms Crap from the farms
• The people left behind The people left behind
• Rainbow over troubled town Rainbow over troubled town
• They've got him surrounded They've got him surrounded
• Divide and Conquer Divide and Conquer
• Tainted Creek Tainted Creek
• Tainted Creek cont'd. Tainted Creek cont'd.
• For the Birds For the Birds
• Oficina Central Oficina Central
• Chilean Giant Chilean Giant
• Would you like some drugs with your farmed salmon roll? Would you like some drugs with your farmed salmon roll?
• Ground Zero: Quelló Ground Zero: Quelló
• Beaches of Quelló Beaches of Quelló
• Skeleton Ship Skeleton Ship
• The smart money's in Urchins The smart money's in Urchins
• "Never eat seafood from Calbuco" "Never eat seafood from Calbuco"
• Calbuco farm Calbuco farm
• A little action A little action
• Calbuco farm cont'd. Calbuco farm cont'd.
• Standing up for Calbuco Standing up for Calbuco
• Boats of a bygone era Boats of a bygone era
• Tough Times Tough Times
• Scene of the Crime? Scene of the Crime?
• Academia hard at work Academia hard at work
• The path ahead The path ahead
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