With about three and half weeks to go, the campaigning on the for and against sides for the April 12 Kitimat plebiscite on the Joint Review Panel report on the Northern Gateway has been relatively low key up until now. That changes with the news that Northern Gateway will hold two campaign Open Houses. […]
Category: referendum
Updates with Gitga'at court challenge The Haisla Nation have filed a challenge to the Northern Gateway Joint Review Panel with the Federal Court of Appeal requesting that court quash the JRP findings. The Haisla suit comes at a time that a coalition of environmental groups and the Gitxaala Nation are asking for court reviews of […]
Editorial: (II) Kitimat Council in chaos
January 22, 2014
The District of Kitimat Council is in chaos. We're not referring to Monday's chaotic meeting where often it was hard to figure out what Councillors were saying and where they were going. We are referring to “Chaos” as it is defined in physics, “sensitive dependence on initial conditions,” known to most people as the “butterfly […]
District Council failed the people of Kitimat Monday night by approving a confusing question for the plebiscite on the Northern Gateway project. (There are already comments on social media that some people find the question incomprehensible). What's more, the Council set a sorry precedent Monday and undermined their ability to have a constructive debate […]
District of Kitimat Council voted Monday night to hold a plebiscite on whether or not the community supports the controversial Enbridge Northern Gateway project. District council and staff will decide the actual question for voters and the date for the plebiscite in the coming couple of weeks. A staff report described a plebiscite as “a […]