Haisla Nation chief counsellor Ellis Ross has written a letter to Kitimat media sharply critizing the upcoming plebiscite on the Enbridge Northern Gateway project Enbridge trying to buy Social Licence This late in the day, a poll of its residents has no binding effect on the project. Next week, the District of Kitimat will seek […]
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Excerpts from the Northern Gateway Joint Review Panel report relating to the Exxon Valdez disaster. Northern Gateway told the Joint Reivew Panel that on a worldwide basis, all data sets show a steady reduction in the number and size of oil spills since the 1970s. This decline has been even more apparent since regulatory changes in […]
Energy Environment First Nations The dispute over who represents that Gitxsan First Nation became a media duel Wednesday, with an opinion piece by Gitxsan Treaty Office leader Elmer Derrick published in The Vancouver Sun and an almost simultaneous news release from the coastal Gitxaala First Nation from Kitkatla, emphasizing that nation's opposition to the pipeline. […]
Energy Environment British Columbia's coastal First Nations are calling for a complete overhaul of the Northern Gateway Joint Review process and have a filed motion that calls for the hearings, scheduled to begin January 10, be adjourned until the proceedings are reformed. Motions were filed between October 28 and November 14, with the JRP by […]
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 […]