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 […]
In a letter to Northwest Coast Energy News, Murray Minchin says accusations that Douglas Channel Watch is "anti-development" is far from the truth: Dear Editor, Things are heating up in Kitimat as the April 12th Enbridge plebiscite gets closer. Assumptions have been made, and accusations hurled at Douglas Channel Watch for being an anti-development […]
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. […]
Enbridge is striking back against the First Nations and intervenors who oppose the Northern Gateway pipeline and marine terminal projects by filing questions that those groups must answer as part of the Joint Review Process. On May 11, 2012, Enbridge filed questions with 24 organizations, and from the questions, it appears that Enbridge isn't just […]
"This will be the first project in Canadian history to have First Nations, environmentalists and, for a lack of a better term, rednecks standing together in protest,” that sentence from Katherina Ouwehand summed up the first day of public comment testimony Monday, June 25, 2012, as the Northern Gateway Joint Review Panel returned to […]
Updated with comment from Douglas Channel Watch and DCW questions to province. The province of British Columbia is refusing to answer questions from the Kitimat group Douglas Channel Watch about the Northern Gateway pipeline project because, the province's lawyer says, BC hasn't filed any evidence and so doesn't have answer questions through the Joint Review […]