Injunction
An injunction is a court order directing someone or some group to stop an action like a blockade; injunctions have been used by Indigenous peoples as a tool of resistance against colonial governments to temporary halt or delay projects. - Yellowhead Insittute [1]
Examples of Injunctions
- The Coastal Gaslink pipeline applied for an injunction, and received it, to continue building on unceded Wet'suwet'en territory without their free, prior and informed consent [2]
- The Transmountain (TMX) pipeline was granted an injunction to build on unceded Secwepemc Nation territory [3]
- Teal Jones logging company was granted an injunction to log remaining old growth trees on Pacheedaht First Nation territory [4]
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- ↑ https://yellowheadinstitute.org/2019/11/14/injunctions-by-first-nations-results-of-a-national-study/
- ↑ https://thenarwhal.ca/rcmp-arrests-wetsuweten-coastal-gaslink/
- ↑ https://www.transmountain.com/injunction-order
- ↑ https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/logging-company-granted-injunction-extension-in-fairy-creek-old-growth-dispute/