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Drilled

Modern-Day Bead Trading: The Fossil Fuel Industry Meets Indigenous Protest with "Redwashing" and Repression in Canada

Drilled

Critical Frequency

True Crime, Earth Sciences, Social Sciences, Science

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

As we resume our season focused on the global criminalization of climate protest, reporter Martha Troian brings us to Canada, where the Wet'suwet'en people have been fighting for years against a gas pipeline they never authorized on their territory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

A few hours before sunrise on November 19th, 2021, a small weasel entered a log cabin and a place called Coyote Camp, a resistant camp on the

0:17.0

Wissotan Territory and what is now called British Columbia.

0:21.5

It started to crawl around the land defenders sleeping inside. One of the land

0:25.8

defenders looked at the Riesel and took it as a warning.

0:29.1

Howdy, I'm Alex Tachney. I am a Butsuitan land offender, also the daughter of Chief

0:36.6

Voss, who is the head chief of Cassia House on Gondam territory.

0:41.6

Jocelyn Alex Sadney has been arrested twice on her own territory.

0:46.3

My first arrest was during Coyote Camp back in 2021 for defending our Wacinkwa, our river, from being drilled under. I also had a

0:57.1

cabin on the so-called drill pad site, occupied it for up to 56 days.

1:03.8

That day, November 19th,

1:05.8

there were three others in the cabin with me.

1:09.6

So that very morning, it was like five, six in the morning, a weasel came in and it started

1:20.0

like crawling on us, like crawling on my friends and like just getting right near us and so I took that as a sign like as a warning that they were coming.

1:34.0

And, um, for, um, they were coming.

1:40.0

And, um, fair enough after that happened, we started during the machinery and there were a heli's flying and um

1:51.8

okay so Okay. So, we started seeing them like dropping down tag teams of ERTs, which are the emergency response teams.

2:05.4

And there was like three of them, like three groups that got dropped.

2:10.8

And that was when they started surrounding Coyote Camp and there were at least like 10

2:18.0

RCMP also with 10 ERTs and so they started coming down the hill they started like dispersing and

2:29.2

like getting into positions and we noticed that there were already two snipers on us and they were right

2:38.2

behind the bulldozer and they also had a pain on with them. And so they started surrounding the cabin, they came up to the door, and they started

2:50.8

telling us that we weren't following so-called Canadian law and that we had to come out and

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