Canada’s support of Line 5 pipeline to come under scrutiny of United Nations – Windspeaker.com
April 20th, 2023
“Tribes in the U.S. and Canada…have worked for years to decommission Line 5 given the risks a catastrophic oil spill poses to their health, culture and environment.” —from a submission to the United Nations Human Rights Council
Canada is being called out by Indigenous nations on both sides of the border for its support of the continued operations of Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline.
A report signed by the Anishinabek Nation, which represents 39 First Nations in Ontario, along with 10 tribes in Michigan and two tribes in Wisconsin, as well as a handful of environmental organizations, was submitted earlier this month to the United Nations Human Rights Council as part of the fourth universal periodic review of Canada.
The periodic review is a mechanism of the human rights council aimed at improving human rights situations in countries by hearing periodic scrutiny.
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