The Sacred Trust is an initiative of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation mandated to stop the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline and tanker project.
Sunday, Nov 22, 2015, 12-8pm. Vancouver Aboriginal Friendship Centre, 1607 East Hastings, Vancouver.
Presented by the Tsleil-Waututh Sacred Trust, UBCIC, and many allied organisations, join us for a day of learning and celebration to mark the one-year anniversary of the Burnaby Mountain mobilization. This is a day for learning about “reconciliation in action.”
“Yesterday, the vast majority of Canadians voted to stop this practice of rushing through pipeline and tanker projects without a credible environmental assessment and without respecting the rights of Indigenous peoples.â€
TWN filed the appeal in May 2014, shortly after the NEB issued a series of decisions that defined the nature and scope of their public review process.
Failure to do so risks undermining the entire hearing process
NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C. and MUSQUEAM, SQUAMISH & TSLEIL-WAUTUTH TERRITORY; September 9, 2015. The Tsleil-Waututh Nation filed a motion with the National Energy Board (NEB) yesterday asking it to throw out all the reply evidence Kinder Morgan submitted on August 20th to support its Trans Mountain pipeline and tanker expansion proposal.
The 2015 totem pole journey, led by Master Carver Jewell James of the Lummi Nation’s House of Tears Carvers will be arriving at Tsleil-Waututh August 21-22. The Pole Blessing and Kick-off the tour in Coast Salish Territory (Vancouver) takes place during 2 events:
EVENT 1 – Solidarity Film Night: Friday Aug 21, 6-9:00pm Grandview Calvary Baptist Church,
An exhibition of new work by Nancy Bleck (Slanay Sp’ak’wus) in collaboration with the Tsleil Waututh Nation Sacred Trust.
New photographic works by Nancy Bleck created in collaboration with the Tsleil Waututh Nation are on view at the Seymour Art Gallery from August 12 – September 12, 2015.
Kinder Morgen in the German language directly translates as ‘Children Tomorrow’,
YOU ARE INVITED!
All Nations Festival is a three-day celebration of Coast Salish culture, art, language, and identity, occurring from July 23 – 25, 2015 in Kwikwetlem (Coquitlam) on Tsleil-Waututh Nation (TWN) traditional territory. The TWN Sacred Trust has been working with Kwikwetlem Nation and the Coquitlam School District Aboriginal Education to bring this to life.
Approval for controversial oil pipelines and tankers project denied
NORTH VANCOUVER, BC and COAST SALISH TERRITORY, May 26, 2015 – Today, the Tsleil-Waututh Nation the “People of the Inlet†released the outcomes of its independent assessment of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline and tanker project (TMEX), conducted as a matter of its own jurisdiction and law.
A large spill of diluted bitumen near Vancouver could kill over 100,000 birds and seriously harm other mammals, according to a new study.
The National Observer reported, May 18, on the new report co-commissioned by Tsleil-Waututh Nation, titled ‘The Fate and Effect of Oil Spills from the Trans Mountain Expansion Project in Burrard Inlet and the Fraser River Estuary.’
Up to 90 per cent of a Burrard Inlet oil spill would reach shoreline in hours” The Vancouver Sun reports today with the launch of an oil spill animation model.
“The model demonstrates that nowhere is safe in Burrard Inlet,†says Tsleil-Waututh Nation Chief Maureen Thomas.
“Spilled oil has the potential to foul every corner of our inlet leaving only a legacy of more pollution for our children and spoiling everything Tsleil-Waututh holds as sacred.â€
The independent spill trajectory model was created for the City of Vancouver and City Of Burnaby,
