{"id":564152,"date":"2026-03-27T10:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T10:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/564152\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T10:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T10:43:14","slug":"piikani-nation-protest-planned-on-environmental-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/564152\/","title":{"rendered":"Piikani Nation protest planned on environmental rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ca95b23e-fec6-4469-9a26-52d14c66cf34.jpg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Protest location pinned. (Image Credit: Supplied)<\/p>\n<p>By LNN Staff<\/p>\n<p>March 28, 2026<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tMar 26, 2026 | 11:15 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Piikani Nation says it has serious and long-standing concerns over environmental issues \u2013 especially the degradation of its water resources.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Officials say those concerns have been largely ignored, so members of the Piikani Nation will host a protest and community learning event on Saturday, March 28 at 10:00 a.m., focused on issues related to land, water and the rights and interests of the Nation. Organizers say they want their voices to be heard.<\/p>\n<p>The event is expected to bring together community members, leadership, and supporters to raise awareness, share information, and discuss the impacts of current land and water-related issues affecting the Piikani Nation. <\/p>\n<p>Organizers say the gathering will include speakers and community perspectives, noting local politicians have been invited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Protest location pinned. (Image Credit: Supplied) By LNN Staff March 28, 2026 Mar 26, 2026 | 11:15 AM&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-564152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}