Injunction

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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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