Mitsubishi Divest from LNG Canada and Fossil Hydrogen Project NOW!
Mitsubishi Divest from LNG Canada and Fossil Hydrogen Project NOW!
The Issue
Petition Organizers: Wet’suwet’en Solidarity Japan, Defeat Polluters, Nikkei Vancouver for Justice
As the climate crisis, why does Mitsubishi Corporation continue to invest projects that violation of the human rights of the indigenous people?
Please sign the petition to stop the LNG Canada project and the hydrogen project that causing climate distraction and human rights violations in the indigenous territories.
Mitsubishi Corporation, a Japanese company that holds a 15% stake in LNG Canada and is planning to develop a hydrogen project in so-called “Canada” with Shell Canada. These two projects causing mass destructions and pollutions that is unacceptable in Japan.
In so-called “Canada”, Turtle Island, Indigenous peoples are among the most affected by climate change and fossil fuel projects. Despite living in harmony with nature and protecting 85% of the world’s biodiversity for over 1000 years, they face significant effects to climate-related disasters, and indigenous recistance is violently suppressed, the daily sexual violence and surveillance by police (RCMP) and pipeline construction workers in “Men Camps” and genocide and missing of indigenous women were happening because of the colonialism and imperialist projects like pipelines. Even its unceded territories, their lands are being sold and taken away without their consent for fossil fuel projects, and their drinking water is being contaminated as a result. Mitsubishi Corporation’s complicity of the distractions of the indigenous territories and genocide should be not allowed.
Please sign and share this petition much you can because LNG Canada maybe start working in this year
●LNG Canada
Mitsubishi Corporation holds a 15% stake in LNG Canada, which is nearing completion.
The LNG Canada Project is a large-scale initiative to transport shale gas extracted from the interior of so-called “British Columbia, Canada”, via the Coastal GasLink (CGL) pipeline, liquefy it into Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), and export it to Japan and other Asian countries. To support the immense energy demands of this project, the Site C Dam—a massive hydroelectric power plant—is already constructed. This is being done without the consent of Treaty 8 nation on their territory and fishing grounds. The area, considered some of the richest agricultural land in so-called “Canada” and home to over 100 endangered species, is being flooded as a result.
Additionally, the CGL pipeline, which is dedicated to LNG Canada, runs through the territory (Yintah) of the Wet’suwet’en nation without their consent. Wet’suwet’en people who oppose the pipeline face violent suppression by the police (RCMP) and many of them were arrested including seniors and hereditary chief, Wet’suwet’en resistance were criminalized and face daily surveillance while Indigenous women are subjected to sexual violence by pipeline workers also by police.
In 2016, the RCMP created a special unit called the “Community-Industry Response Group” (C-IRG, now CRU) solely to suppress growing protests by Indigenous peoples and activists in BC. As of 2023, they have spent $50 million of our tax dollars on this suppression.
The “Wedzin Kwa,” a river sacred to the Wet’suwet’en people and essential to their daily lives, has been severely damaged and polluted. (You can learn more about CGL pipeline in film “Yintah” on Netflix)
Both Indigenous communities are being dispossessed of their lands, and their traditional fishing practices—a critical means of livelihood—are being devastated by the construction of the pipeline and the LNG project. Furthermore, if gas from the pipeline leaks into “Wedzin Kwa,” it could result in severe health consequences for the Indigenous peoples.
● Fossil hydrogen project
The Fossil Hydrogen Project is a joint initiative by Mitsubishi Corporation and Shell Canada, an oil company, to produce hydrogen from natural gas, a fossil fuel, in so-called “Edmonton, Alberta, Canada”.
In Japan, a “green coal” initiative is being promoted to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by co-firing hydrogen and ammonia in coal-fired power plants. However, the reality is that the hydrogen and ammonia being used are produced from fossil fuels. The entire process—fossil fuel extraction, transportation, hydrogen and ammonia production, transportation to coastal areas, and export to Japan—not only fails to benefit the environment but is also highly destructive to it.
Furthermore, a Finnish research team has reported that co-firing hydrogen and ammonia in coal-fired power plants increases pollutants, including PM2.5. If so-called “green coal” is used in coal-fired power plants built by Japanese companies overseas, hydrogen production in so-called Canada will likely expand rapidly, worsening air pollution in countries like Bangladesh, where Japanese companies have constructed coal-fired power plants.
This approach misleads people into thinking the environment is being improved by co-firing hydrogen and ammonia—a tactic known as greenwashing.
● Two projects that are accelerating the crisis
In so-call “Canada”, forest fires occur every year due to climate change. However, 2 years ago, forest fires were the worst on record, with six times the area lost than in previous years. Smoke from the forest fires in eastern Canada hit New York City and Washington DC, and forest fire also happening in Los Angels this year, causing a variety of impacts. 30% of firefighters in LA is prisoners and migrants are not paid the fair wages and are treated like slaves as they continue to extinguish fires today. Endless imperial capitalist climate crisis and injustice were happening all over the world, it can only be stopped if these two projects are stopped. Despite the real climate emergency, Mitsubishi Corporation is about to undertake two projects that will further accelerate the climate crisis.
We are taking action against Mitsubishi Canada ltd to withdraw from the Fossil hydrogen project and the LNG Canada.
We need your support to take action.
Please support and spread the petition!
◆About our groups
Defeat Polluters: A climate Justice organization based in so-called “Vancouver, Canada”, fighting against colonialism and the big Asian companies funding climate distraction
Nikkei Vancouver for Justice: Japanese diaspora and migrants resistance and solidarity movement against injustice and imperialism, based in so-called “Vancouver, Canada”
◆Contact us.
For all correspondence regarding interviews, petition, or anything related to the organization, please contact us via information below.
Email： nikkei.van.justice@tutamail.com
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The Issue
Petition Organizers: Wet’suwet’en Solidarity Japan, Defeat Polluters, Nikkei Vancouver for Justice
As the climate crisis, why does Mitsubishi Corporation continue to invest projects that violation of the human rights of the indigenous people?
Please sign the petition to stop the LNG Canada project and the hydrogen project that causing climate distraction and human rights violations in the indigenous territories.
Mitsubishi Corporation, a Japanese company that holds a 15% stake in LNG Canada and is planning to develop a hydrogen project in so-called “Canada” with Shell Canada. These two projects causing mass destructions and pollutions that is unacceptable in Japan.
In so-called “Canada”, Turtle Island, Indigenous peoples are among the most affected by climate change and fossil fuel projects. Despite living in harmony with nature and protecting 85% of the world’s biodiversity for over 1000 years, they face significant effects to climate-related disasters, and indigenous recistance is violently suppressed, the daily sexual violence and surveillance by police (RCMP) and pipeline construction workers in “Men Camps” and genocide and missing of indigenous women were happening because of the colonialism and imperialist projects like pipelines. Even its unceded territories, their lands are being sold and taken away without their consent for fossil fuel projects, and their drinking water is being contaminated as a result. Mitsubishi Corporation’s complicity of the distractions of the indigenous territories and genocide should be not allowed.
Please sign and share this petition much you can because LNG Canada maybe start working in this year
●LNG Canada
Mitsubishi Corporation holds a 15% stake in LNG Canada, which is nearing completion.
The LNG Canada Project is a large-scale initiative to transport shale gas extracted from the interior of so-called “British Columbia, Canada”, via the Coastal GasLink (CGL) pipeline, liquefy it into Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), and export it to Japan and other Asian countries. To support the immense energy demands of this project, the Site C Dam—a massive hydroelectric power plant—is already constructed. This is being done without the consent of Treaty 8 nation on their territory and fishing grounds. The area, considered some of the richest agricultural land in so-called “Canada” and home to over 100 endangered species, is being flooded as a result.
Additionally, the CGL pipeline, which is dedicated to LNG Canada, runs through the territory (Yintah) of the Wet’suwet’en nation without their consent. Wet’suwet’en people who oppose the pipeline face violent suppression by the police (RCMP) and many of them were arrested including seniors and hereditary chief, Wet’suwet’en resistance were criminalized and face daily surveillance while Indigenous women are subjected to sexual violence by pipeline workers also by police.
In 2016, the RCMP created a special unit called the “Community-Industry Response Group” (C-IRG, now CRU) solely to suppress growing protests by Indigenous peoples and activists in BC. As of 2023, they have spent $50 million of our tax dollars on this suppression.
The “Wedzin Kwa,” a river sacred to the Wet’suwet’en people and essential to their daily lives, has been severely damaged and polluted. (You can learn more about CGL pipeline in film “Yintah” on Netflix)
Both Indigenous communities are being dispossessed of their lands, and their traditional fishing practices—a critical means of livelihood—are being devastated by the construction of the pipeline and the LNG project. Furthermore, if gas from the pipeline leaks into “Wedzin Kwa,” it could result in severe health consequences for the Indigenous peoples.
● Fossil hydrogen project
The Fossil Hydrogen Project is a joint initiative by Mitsubishi Corporation and Shell Canada, an oil company, to produce hydrogen from natural gas, a fossil fuel, in so-called “Edmonton, Alberta, Canada”.
In Japan, a “green coal” initiative is being promoted to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by co-firing hydrogen and ammonia in coal-fired power plants. However, the reality is that the hydrogen and ammonia being used are produced from fossil fuels. The entire process—fossil fuel extraction, transportation, hydrogen and ammonia production, transportation to coastal areas, and export to Japan—not only fails to benefit the environment but is also highly destructive to it.
Furthermore, a Finnish research team has reported that co-firing hydrogen and ammonia in coal-fired power plants increases pollutants, including PM2.5. If so-called “green coal” is used in coal-fired power plants built by Japanese companies overseas, hydrogen production in so-called Canada will likely expand rapidly, worsening air pollution in countries like Bangladesh, where Japanese companies have constructed coal-fired power plants.
This approach misleads people into thinking the environment is being improved by co-firing hydrogen and ammonia—a tactic known as greenwashing.
● Two projects that are accelerating the crisis
In so-call “Canada”, forest fires occur every year due to climate change. However, 2 years ago, forest fires were the worst on record, with six times the area lost than in previous years. Smoke from the forest fires in eastern Canada hit New York City and Washington DC, and forest fire also happening in Los Angels this year, causing a variety of impacts. 30% of firefighters in LA is prisoners and migrants are not paid the fair wages and are treated like slaves as they continue to extinguish fires today. Endless imperial capitalist climate crisis and injustice were happening all over the world, it can only be stopped if these two projects are stopped. Despite the real climate emergency, Mitsubishi Corporation is about to undertake two projects that will further accelerate the climate crisis.
We are taking action against Mitsubishi Canada ltd to withdraw from the Fossil hydrogen project and the LNG Canada.
We need your support to take action.
Please support and spread the petition!
◆About our groups
Defeat Polluters: A climate Justice organization based in so-called “Vancouver, Canada”, fighting against colonialism and the big Asian companies funding climate distraction
Nikkei Vancouver for Justice: Japanese diaspora and migrants resistance and solidarity movement against injustice and imperialism, based in so-called “Vancouver, Canada”
◆Contact us.
For all correspondence regarding interviews, petition, or anything related to the organization, please contact us via information below.
Email： nikkei.van.justice@tutamail.com
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Petition created on August 1, 2023