Join Guelph Anti-Pipeline and Spatial Integrity in our screening of the outstanding and urgent short film about the Lax Kw’alaams people who are defending their traditional territory Lax U’u’la (Lelu Island) and the Flora Bank wild salmon habitat from the Petronas LNG project.
******Lax kw’alaams Hereditary Chief Yahaan will be skyping in with us at the end of the movie to give updates and answer any questions!
Join the resistance of the Lax Kw’alaams on both land and sea in ‘A Last Stand for Lelu’. All funds raised go to the land defenders on Lax U’u’la.
Monday, March 14th
530-730pm
10 Carden
FREE/PWYV EVENT with popcorn
Space is wheelchair/ scooter accessible.
Childcare is provided. Please message for details.
Pleace contact guelphgap@gmail.com with any questions or concerns.
More Information:
A great injustice is being done on Lelu Island near Prince Rupert, B.C., the sacred and traditional territory of the Lax Kw’alaams people for over 10,000 years. The B.C. provincial government is trying to green light the construction of a massive liquefied fracked gas (LNG) terminal on the island – Pacific Northwest LNG, backed by Malaysian energy giant Petronas, without consent.
The Lax Kw’alaams are the keepers of Lelu Island and its connected Flora Bank, a massive sand bar that is part of the Skeena River estuary and known by fisheries biologists as some of the most important salmon habitat in Canada. The project would devastate the Skeena River, the natural wildlife and countless communities in the path of the LNG pipeline that will feed the terminal with fracked gas from Northeastern B.C.
The Lax Kw’alaams have voted unanimously against the project and became legendary when they rejected a $1.15 billion dollar deal from Petronas in an attempt by the company to gain consent.
Ignoring the voice of the Lax Kw’alaams, Petronas, with full backing of the Provincial Government have illegally begun drilling into Flora Bank where they now face off against warriors of the Lax Kw’alaams who have occupied the island since August 2015.
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