«Énergie propre, renouvelable, fiable et abondante» sont les premiers descriptifs du projet sur la rivière Romaine que publie Hydro-Québec. Sommes-nous étonnés? Non, car à première vue, cette société d’État québécoise présente fièrement ce projet sur leur site, dans une vidéo glorieuse, défilant quelques faits sur le barrage. Elle exprime entre autres que la réalisation du projet se fait en collaboration avec les collectivités locales, que la construction crée plus de 1000 emplois dont 45% des travailleurs sont locaux et que l’empreinte environnementale est réduite.

Canada is recognized as one of the nation-state with the worst per capita greenhouse gas emissions on record. This is an unfortunate distinction since it is the main index used to document the human impact on climate change. While attempts are made to present the fight against climate change as a responsibility shared equally by everyone, the vast majority of greenhouse gas emissions are the result of a handful of multinational corporations whose profits are concentrated in the hands of a very small number of individuals.

The struggle for self-determination of the Wetsu’wet’en people is not a new one. Since the late 1990s, the hereditary chiefs of the Wet’suwet’en and Gitxsan peoples have been waging a legal and political battle for recognition of their territorial rights. In 1997, these two peoples obtained recognition from the colonial legal system that their territory had never been ceded, and that their hereditary system of governance had never been extinguished.