* Prince Rupert's Pacific LNG project faces new challenge

14/10/15
Author: 
Derrick Penner
Link: 
The Vancouver Sun
Richard Wright, a spokesman for Luutkudziiwus, a 600-member house group of the Gitxsan Nation in action in Vancouver, BC., October 13, 2015. The group will file a legal challenge against the proposed Prince Rupert Gas Transmission pipeline which they say will decimate wild salmon in the Skeena as it crosses 34 km of its traditional Madii Lii territory. Photograph by: Nick Procaylo , PNG Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/prince+rupert+pacific+project+faces+challenge/11436865/story.html#ixzz3oYWkz2j4

The province faces a new First Nations legal challenge to an element of the Pacific Northwest Liquefied Natural Gas project just as it prepares to open its major annual conference aimed at promoting the prospects of its still nascent industry.

A group within the Gitxsan First Nation says it will apply to the B.C. Supreme Court for a judicial review seeking to overturn the provincial environmental certificate and Oil and Gas Commission construction approval for the TransCanada Prince Rupert Gas Transmission Line on the basis they were not consulted, said group spokesman Richard Wright.

"They're not talking to the right people, the people who actually own the land," Wright said in an interview, referring to consultations that took place with the Gitxsan Development Corp. during the environmental assessment for the $5-billion, 900-kilometre pipeline project associated with the Petronas-backed Pacific NorthWest LNG proposal.

Category: 
British Columbia
LNG - Fracking
Protest - Revolt