‘Not going to happen’: First Nations threaten to end Carney’s pipe dream

For the remote coastal First Nations, the threat of a pipeline is more than just a question of climate policy. Photograph: Cole Burston

When the people of the Haida nation won a decades-long battle for recognition that an archipelago off the coast of British Columbia in Canada was rightfully theirs, it was a long overdue victory.

The unprecedented deal with the provincial and the federal governments meant the Haida no longer had to prove that they had Aboriginal title to the land of Xhaaidlagha Gwaayaai, “the islands at the boundary of the world.”