Are green groups ready for tarsands deal ? | Dawn Paley
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“I despise [Tzeporah Berman], #Greenpeace, #ForestEthics, and all those other clowns that were behind the Great Bear Rainforest Agreement and the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement,” said Togestiy, a hereditary chief from the Wet’suwet’en First Nation, via cellphone from outside of Smithers. “They took full advantage of aboriginal people and decided to sign deals behind closed doors without those aboriginal people being present.”
Togestiy explained how in the first year of pipeline resistance, when action camps were held, NGOs were invited, but he said they shied away the second year when community members stuck to strong messaging around the tarsands.
“The second year that we ran the camp, the NGOs all kind of backed away from what we were doing because we decided that we were going to be uncompromising and our language was going to be very, very easy and very direct,” he said. “Basically, we just said, ‘No pipelines—no to all pipelines.’ ”