Could the future of northwestern British Columbia's hoped for natural gas boom depend on the outcome of this weekend's Australian general election? While the mainstream media in North America has mostly been following the personal feud between Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott or speculating whether or not Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's […]
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The Northern Gateway Joint Review Panel has confirmed that final, closing arguments for the controversial Enbridge pipeline project will take place in Terrace for approximately two weeks, beginning on Monday, June 17, 2013. The Panel says the purpose of closing arugments is to provide Parties Northern Gateway, intervenors, and government participants the opportunity to: tell […]
Coastal First Nations have launched a commercial aimed at the British Columbia electorate, using the call from the Exxon Valedez to US Coast Guard Valdez traffic control saying that the tanker had run aground. The commercial makes the connection between the Exxon Valdez disaster and the possibility of a tanker disaster on the British […]
The announcement Monday that the federal government intends to turn the private port of Kitimat into a public port, an announcement confirmed by Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver in Terrace, Tuesday, came as a surprise to Rio Tinto Alcan, which now operates the port. This morning RTA issued a brief statement: This announcement was not […]
Here are edited portions of the EIS assessment for a major oil terminal at Prince Rupert Environmental Setting The EIS says “the local surface geology at the Prince Rupert site consists of bedrock (granitic rocks) overlain by glacial outwash and a thin soil cover.” and goes on to note that “Prince Rupert is located along […]
Ellis Ross, Chief Counsellor of the Haisla Nation tonight denied reports published in the Globe and Mail that the Haisla are softening their stand against the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project. Ross told Northwest Coast Energy News that the Haisla stand by their filings with the Northern Gateway Pipeline Joint Review Panel that the First […]
Kitimat-Stikine Regional District votes to oppose Enbridge Northern Gateway
September 16, 2012
The Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine voted on Sept. 14, 2012, to oppose the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline. Eight of the twelve Regional District Directors of Kitimat Stikine voted to both to oppose the Northern Gateway project and to support resolutions of the Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM) on the pipeline. Telegraph Creek director David Brocklebank, […]
Haisla, BC government sign agreement for third LNG facility at Kitimat
September 14, 2012
Updated with map, agreement details The Haisla Nation and the BC government have signed an agreement that will lead to a third liquified natural gas project near Kitimat. The "Haisla Framework Agreement" allows for the lease or sale of up to approximately 700 hectares of Crown land near the Douglas Channel, and for the foreshore […]
There's one question about the Enbridge Northern Gateway project that many people ask and few can answer: Who is responsible for the port of Kitimat? Who would be liable should there be a disaster in the port? Nobody really knows. Unlike many harbours in Canada, the port of Kitimat is "private," although as the District […]
The future of the Northern Gateway project is now completely in the hands of Prime Minister Stephen Harper's cabinet. Today, Friday, August 3, 2012, Environment Minister Peter Kent used the provisions of what the Harper government calls the Jobs, Growth and Long Term Prosperity Act (former Bill C-38) to set a final deadline for a […]