Updated with statements from Coastal First Nations and Gitga'at Nation Second update: Statement from the Heiltsuk Nation January 13, 2026 Official statement from Prime Mnister Mark Carney after meeting with First Nations leaders Prince Rupert, British Columbia Today, the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, met with the President of the Coastal First Nations-Great Bear Initiative (CFN), […]
US President Donald Trump has opened large areas of Alaska, including the Gulf of Alaska just north of the BC border to oil leases. The additional leases also allow more drilling the Arctic. If drilling and production does go ahead, which isn't certain, that might also mean there could be even more oil tanker traffic […]
In a news release this afternoon, Pacific Northwest LNG announced that the company has given a positive, but conditional, Final Investment Decision, to build an LNG facility on the environmentally sensitive Lelu Island at Port Edward. BC. Pacific NorthWest LNG (PNW LNG) announced today that the required technical and commercial components of the project have […]
The response to the Joint Review Panel decision on the Northern Gateway, beginning in December and continuing until this Canada Day, both in the public and in the media is sharply divided by the Rocky Mountains. A lof of Albertans, most of the energy companies and many in the media, especially the Toronto-based business […]
It appears that the Stephen Harper's strategy for approving Northern Gateway has been revealed on background to The Globe and Mail's Gary Mason. (Either it's a revelation or a trial balloon). It comes down to the idea that Harper will approve Gateway “in the national interest,” count on a vote split between the NDP and […]
District of Kitimat Council voted four to one Monday night to officially oppose the Northern Gateway pipeline, terminal and tanker project. After a lengthy debate, Mayor Joanne Monaghan, Councillors Phil Germuth, Mario Feldhoff and Rob Goffinet voted in favour of the motion. Councillor Edwin Empinado voted against the motion. Councillors Mary Murphy and Corrine Scott […]
The federal government today announced that it is going to spend $9,127,000 through the Western Diversification Program to support "the development of Ocean Networks Canada's (ONC) Smart Oceans BC program" to upgrade radar and other navigation aids on the BC coast. The upgrades include adding the Automatic Identification System (AIS) ship tracking system, which means that […]
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 […]
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 […]
On March 24, 1989, the tanker Exxon Valdez plowed into Bligh Reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound, spilling 260,000 to 750,000 barrels or 41,000 to 119,000 cubic metres of crude oil. That was 25 years ago. The media loves anniversary stories and the Exxon Valdez look-backs and updates are already ramping up—right in the middle […]