A massive LNG project faces rising opposition in Oregon. The quiet backer is a Canadian firm.

Find the article written by Geoff Dembicki here: https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/09/08/Theyre-Trying-To-Take-My-House/

September 2020

Here is a section of the article I was mentioned in:

"Strangely, environmental critics remarked, the ad didn’t once name the project’s true owner, Pembina. It also omitted the fact that most of the corporate profits from building the terminal and pipeline would likely flow up to Alberta; that much, if not all, of the exported gas will potentially come from Canada; and that despite the inclusion of “Tribal Nations” in the lobby group’s name, no tribes in Oregon or California appear to publicly support these projects. “It’s very manipulative,” Brook Thompson, a member of California’s Yurok Tribe, which is downriver of the proposed Pacific Connector route, says of the Western States group."

'“The worst-case scenario is a spill or contaminants leaking. The pipeline is going to cross over 400 waterways, including three major rivers, mine being one of them,” said Thompson from the Yurok Tribe. If the pipe were to burst, she said, “that would be an example of something we have no control of, that happens upstream in Oregon and impacts us downriver.”'

Google Earth Indigenous Languages Layer now Includes Yurok

"Users of Google Earth are now able to hear over 50 Indigenous language speakers from across the globe saying words and simple phrases and even singing traditional songs.

The project, called Celebrating Indigenous Languages, is designed to honour the United Nations International Year of Indigenous Languages.

For Indigenous people, language is a lifeline to culture."

- 2019 CBC story https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/google-earth-indigenous-languages-1.5240672

To see the layer for yourself go here:

https://earth.google.com/web/@43.84671843,-117.18192681,744.01536206a,2706552.44219273d,35y,-0h,0t,0r/data=CikSJxIgYTY1Y2U1NTk3MzE4MTFlOTkzN2RjN2JkNTNhNDc1ZGIiA1lVUg

I was asked to be apart of the Google Earth layer for the Yurok Tribe by google. They asked for all levels of language speakers to be included, from those just learning to those who speak it as their first language and are teachers. I grew up with Yurok in my home living with Archie Thompson who was the last Native (L1) speaker of Yurok. I practice daily and have the goal of only speaking it in my home by the time I am 35. In summer of 2020 Google added a second wave of speakers to the layer.

Not Your Mascot: Understanding Modern Indigenous Realities

June 10, 2020