Fifteen years ago, as reported on this site, Ellis Ross, then elected Chief Counsellor for the Haisla Nation led the fight against Enbridge's proposal for a bitumen pipeline to Kitimat. Now he's the Conservative Member of Parliament for Skeena Bulkley Valley. Today, December 9, he voted for the Conservative motion in the House of […]
About 52 million years ago what is now the Bulkley Valley was home to a tiny hedgehog and an ancient ancestor of tapirs, who lived on the shores of a placid lake surrounded by a lush upland forest. The newly discovered fossils at Driftwood Canyon near Smithers are significant advance in the study of the […]
A high turnout is expected Saturday for the non-binding plebiscite where residents of the District of Kitimat can, perhaps, say yes or no to the Enbridge Northern Gateway project. In some ways, it all depends on how people interpret the convoluted question. Warren Weychasen, Kitimat's Deputy Administrative Officer said Thursday 910 people voted during advance […]
Skeena Bulkley Valley MP Nathan Cullen says at least two of the Northern Gateway Joint Review Panel’s 209 conditions may already be outdated. In a news release January 15, 2013, Cullen said, “The requirement of $950 million in spill insurance was recently called into question as reports surfaced of cleanup costs at the sites of […]
Skeena Bulkley Valley MP and NDP House Leader, reacting to Northwest Coast Energy News exclusive story that the Northern Gateway Joint Review Panel has refused to consider a Fisheries and Oceans report on humpback whales says in a Facebook posting "Like many of you, I've come to see the Conservatives' hatred for science as more […]
Skeena Bulkley Valley MP and NDP House leader is calling today's framework deal between BC Premier Christy Clark and Alberta premier Alison Redford, "a bust hand." In a statement released late Tuesday, Cullen said: MP Nathan Cullen called the BC-Alberta framework agreement struck this morning regarding Enbridge “political window-dressing” that draws a blind on truth […]
“There is no need to scare people,” about tankers, Transport Minister Denis Lebel told the House of Commons on Thursday, March 28. Lebel was answering a question from Skeena Bulkley Valley MP and NDP House Leader Nathan Cullen. The official transcript from Hansard records Cullen's question about the federal government's unexpected declaration that Kitimat would […]
Five days after the announcement that the private port of Kitimat will become a public port under federal jurisdiction, Transport Canada is now promising to consult District of Kitimat officials as the Douglas Channel waterfront transitions to a public port. Both Kitimat Mayor Joanne Monaghan and Economic Development Officer Rose Klukas, after numerous calls and […]
Both the Conservative government of Stephen Harper and Enbridge Northern Gateway have "poisoned the well" against industrial developers in the northwest of BC and that is increasing resistance to all projects, Skeena Bulkley Valley MP and NDP House Leader told reporters Thursday, February 14. Cullen was speaking during a regular conference call held with northwest […]
The members of the Northern Gateway Joint Review must now justify their jobs and the existence of the panel, now that the government will likely overrule any recommendations they make about the controversial pipeline, Nathan Cullen, NDP House Leader and MP for Skeena Bulkley Valley said Friday, April 20. Ever since the Joint Review hearings […]