by LaurenEBS | Sep 10, 2024 | Climate, Ksi Lisims LNG Project, LNG Development, PRGT pipeline
Some Indigenous leaders and youth are posting roadblocks and mounting legal challenges to a planned gas pipeline in Northern British Columbia while the Nisga’a Nation, as the project’s partial owner, pushes back. At the centre of the dispute is a nearly 10-year-old...
by LaurenEBS | Sep 9, 2024 | Climate, Ksi Lisims LNG Project, PRGT pipeline
As construction of the PRGT pipeline begins on Nisg̱a’a lands, their Gitanyow neighbours set up a blockade In the misty mountains of northwestern “B.C.,” resistance is unfolding under the looming shadow of the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) pipeline....
by LaurenEBS | Sep 3, 2024 | Climate, Ksi Lisims LNG Project, PRGT pipeline
The Kispiox Band council in British Columbia is seeking a judicial review to overturn a provincial energy regulator’s decision to allow the construction of a natural gas pipeline on the nearby Nisga’a Nation’s territory. The elected band council, representing the...
by LaurenEBS | Aug 30, 2024 | Climate, Ksi Lisims LNG Project, PRGT pipeline
Community organizations demand updated environmental assessments and greater local consultation for the PRGT pipeline The BC Energy Regulator (BCER) is facing escalating legal challenges over its approval of the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) pipeline, with...
by LaurenEBS | Aug 29, 2024 | Climate, Ksi Lisims LNG Project, PRGT pipeline
Two hereditary chiefs in northwestern British Columbia are demanding a new environmental assessment be done before a liquified natural gas pipeline is built in their territories. On Aug. 22, they burned an agreement between the previous owner of the pipeline and...
by LaurenEBS | Aug 29, 2024 | Climate, Ksi Lisims LNG Project, PRGT pipeline
Construction proceeding despite Gitanyow protest, says president of Nisga’a Government, which co-owns project Gitanyow hereditary chiefs and a group of young Indigenous people have blockaded a forest service road in northern B.C. in an attempt to prevent pipeline...
