Energy Environment Updated at 1630 Nov. 23, with First Nations are calling for a complete overhaul of the Northern Gateway Joint Review process The Coastal First Nations have reaffirmed their "categorical" opposition to the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline, contradicting media reports that a deal with Enbridge was in the offing. In a news release issued […]
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Joint Review Panel The Northern Gateway Joint Review Panel has rejected a request from the Haisla First Nation that it combine its formal presentation to the panel with oral statements from members of the Haisla nation. In a letter to the JRP on November 7, Jennifer Griffith, of the Vancouver firm Donovan & Company, requested […]
At final arguments Thursday on the application for the KM LNG export licence, it soon became clear that the concerns of Kitimat's non-aboriginal residents for their own traditional hiking, fishing and hunting access to the area around the Bish Cove terminal have been forgotten. At the June 7 hearings, Mike Langegger, representing the Rod and […]
Globe and Mail B.C. first nation challenges oil and gas tenures sale The sale of oil and gas tenures in northeast British Columbia by the provincial government for $260-million is being challenged in court by a native band. The Dene Tha, a first nation that straddles the B.C.-Alberta-Northwest Territories boundaries, has filed a petition with […]
The National Energy Board adjourned the KM LNG hearings early on Friday pending negotiations between the energy partnership and the Gitxaala, a small coastal First Nation, based in Kitkatla on the northern BC coast. NEB panel chair Lynn Mercier ruled that the board would not decide on KM LNG's request for an export licence […]