The Answer Is Still No

Voices of Pipeline Resistance

edited by Paul Bowles and Henry Veltmeyer  

The Answer Is Still No is an important, urgent book that compiles interviews with people who live along the route of the proposed Enbridge pipeline in Northern British Columbia. This edited collection takes the passionate words and voices of twelve citizens and activists and results in one powerful position when it comes to blind economic development at the expense of our environment and communities: The answer is still “no.”

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  • March 2014
  • ISBN: 9781552666623
  • 156 pages
  • $22.95
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  • PDF April 2022
  • ISBN: 9781773635729
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About the book

The Answer Is Still No is an important, urgent book that compiles interviews with people who live along the route of the proposed Enbridge pipeline in Northern British Columbia. The oil pipeline and supertankers – linking the tar sands of Alberta to the demand of the growing Asian market – are a key component of Canada’s strategy of natural resource extraction. But for the people living along the proposed pipeline route, Enbridge poses a massive environmental risk, which threatens their way of life. This edited collection takes the passionate words and voices of twelve citizens and activists and results in one powerful position when it comes to blind economic development at the expense of our environment and communities: The answer is still “no.”

Canadian Studies Climate & Ecology Indigenous Resistance & Decolonization

What people are saying

Luanne Roth, Prince Rupert

“The oil and gas industry has wanted into the west coast for decades. This is an ongoing struggle between the people who live here and have access to the marine resources now, the fish, and the industry, which wants in either for tanker traffic or offshore drilling. The government is on the oil industry side and they implement policies to weaken us.”

John Ridsdale, Hereditary Chief Na’Moks, Office of the Wet’suwet’en

“[There is] is a great saying: ‘If we don’t speak for the animals, the fish and the birds, who will?’ Simple, very simple, very to the point. And how could we give up something that our great-great-grandchildren will ask us one day ‘Why don’t we have this anymore? Why didn’t you stop this then?’ We don’t have a right to let that happen.”

Authors

Paul Bowles

Paul Bowles is a professor in economics and international studies at the University of Northern British Columbia

Henry Veltmeyer

Dr. Veltmeyer lived and worked for six years in South America before coming to Canada to pursue a doctoral program in political science and subsequently (in 1976) to begin his academic career in the Sociology Department at St. Mary’s University. He participated in the university’s Atlantic Canada Studies program and founded the program in international development in 1985. He served for eight years as coordinator of this program in addition to eight years as chair of the Sociology Department. Currently he has an academic appointment in the PhD program of Development Studies at the Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Mexico, and annually engages in an extended program of research and public lectures across Latin America. He is the editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of International Development Studies and serves on the editorial board of Studies in Political Economy and a number of international journals in his major field of research — the political economy of international development. 

Contents

  • Introduction
  • Karyn Sharp, Prince George
  • Jasmine Thomas, Saik’uz Traditional Territory
  • John Phair, Burns Lake
  • John Ridsdale, Hereditary Chief Na’moks, Wet’suwet’en First Nation
  • Pat Moss, Smithers
  • Nikki Skuce, ForestEthics
  • Shannon McPhail, Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition
  • Roy Henry Vickers & John Olson
  • Murray Minchin, Kitimat
  • Des Nobels & Luanne Roth, Prince Rupert

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