Mar 30, 2012-2012
Canada
Enbridge Northern Pipelines Protest
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ACTIVISTS/ACT.GROUPS/DESCRIPTION OF THE GROUP
Bella Bella Community School
TARGET
Northern Gateway Pipeline Project
WIDELY HELD BELIEF
That indigenous people have the right to food security and the power to decide how territories under their jurisdiction are to be used.
CASE NARRATIVE
Issue and Opponent: The opponent was Enbridge Incorporated, which intended to construct an oil pipeline nearby the Bella Bella indigenous community. The pipeline would have immense health and environmental consequences on the community if a spill or leakage were to occur. Widely Held Belief: Indigenous people have the right to food security and the power to decide how territories under their jurisdiction are to be used.
Dilemma Action: A 48-hour hunger strike was initiated by the Bella Bella Community School schoolchildren to demonstrate the impacts that the pipelines would pose on food security and their way of life.
Outcomes: As a result of the protests and public outcry, the Northern Gateway Pipeline project was quietly shelved in 2014. The project was rejected altogether in 2016 under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Part of a Larger Campaign: No. Consideration may be made as part of the overall protests against the Keystone XL protests.
PRIMARY STRUGGLE/GOAL
NONVIOLENT TACTICS USED
DA TACTICS USED
Hunger strike
CASE NARRATIVE WRITER
SUCCESS METRICS
8 / 12
(CONC) Concessions were made
(EREP) Dilemma action got replicated by other movements
(MC) Media Coverage
(MSYMP) Media coverage was sympathetic to the activists
(OR) Opponent response
(PS) Dilemma action built sympathy with the public
(REFR) Dilemma action reframed the narrative of the opponent
(RF) Dilemma action reduced fear and/or apathy among the activists
PART OF A LARGER CAMPAIGN
0 / 3
RESOURCES
Project documentation
Dilemma Actions Coding Guidebook
Case study documentation
Dilemma_Actions_Analysis_Dataset
SOURCES
Hunter. Justine. 2012. “Pipeline review set to resume in Bella Bella after first nations protest,” The Globe and Mail. Retrieved July 23, 2023. (https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/pipeline-review-set-to-resume-in-bella-bella-after-first-nations-protest/article4097420/).
Lin, Sacha. 2019. “Canadians demonstrate against Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines, 2010-2014,” Global Nonviolent Action Database. Retrieved July 23, 2023. (https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/canadians-demonstrate-against-enbridge-northern-gateway-pipelines-project-2010-2014).
Stoymenoff, Alexis. 2012. “Fearing destruction of local resources by Enbridge pipeline, Northern BC community prepares hunger strike,” Vancouver Observer. Retrieved July 23, 2023. (https://www.vancouverobserver.com/sustainability/2012/03/31/bc-student-hunger-strike-opposing-enbridge-northern-gateway-pipeline-begin.html).
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