Four months in British Columbia (Western Canada) following the activities of people who oppose expansion projects of oil pipelines, fracking, megadams and lng plants that, beside devastating thousands of kilometers of pristine landscape, would endanger precious and unchangeable resources in forests, rivers and in the Pacific Ocean. Cowboys and Indians, women and environmentalists, farmers and scientists, they all protest going new ways and speaking a new language, suggesting real alternatives and forming new alliances.
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Out of these stories of resistance, we have made a full series in 18 episodes shot along the pipeline route, from Northeastern British Columbia to the Pacific coast.
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A project waiting for a producer
We have interviews and shooting of daily life, rivers and islands, chiefs and lawyers, mayors and activists. From June to October 2016 we followed the resistance of people who defend their land along the 1000 km corridor from the gas fields near Fort St. John to the Pacific coast. The mosaic of destruction that the "new" Trudeau government is approving despite its environmental promises is facing a mosaic of grassroots opposition: local communities and First Nations, from the Unist'ot'en to the Gitxsan, from people along the Skeena River to the Laxkwalaams on Lelu Island, from the West Moberly to the farmers in the Peace River Valley.
We would like to show all this to the largest audience as possible!
We would like to show all this to the largest audience as possible!
What's at stake |
Trudeau's broken promises |
A network of oil pipelines and gas pipelines, gas wells, hydro dams and new marine terminals, tar sand refineries and hundreds of tankers leaving to Asia: the puzzle of development projects in British Columbia is constantly changing according to oil prices and depending on decisions taken abroad, it can be in Malasya or China. Canadian governments instead, never change their mind, it can be a Conservative or a Liberal leader, a provincial or a federal one: resources have to be put to market, if someone wants to buy them. That's politics, in Canada. With or without Trudeau.
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People have slowly started to know their new leader during 2016: the Summer has cleared up some doubts about Justin Trudeau. In July his government issued some permits for the Site C dam. In September it approved the lng project by Petronas on Lelu Island. In November it approved two new tar sand pipelines, the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain and the Enbridge Line 3. All this could have happened under the Conservative government of Stephen Harper. Here some news (in Italian). |
The Eldorado in the North EastCowboys and Indians against the3rd dam on the Peace River that would flood farmland and sacred sites.
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The Unist'ot'en in the forestVolunteers from all over the world come to the camp on the Morice River to fight pipelines and defend the land.
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People of the Skeena RiverGas pipelines bound to the coast have to cross the Kispiox, the Skeena and the Suskwa, but people fight back.
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Paola Rosà interviewed on Channel 3 of RAI in Radio Tre Mondo,15th February 2017. To listen clic here, from minute 10. |
In issue number 9 of Left published on 4th March 2017 a 5 page reportage "I mille giorni resistenti dei nativi del Canada". Online an abstract:
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Saturday 4th March 2017 on Rai Tre a 12 minute film made for Agenda del Mondo: "Cowboy e indiani contro Big Oil".
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On the website of the Swiss Italian Network, three episodes, since Sunday 5th March online.
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