First Nations and Environmental Groups launch multiple legal challenges against Petronas LNG Project

27/10/16
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First Nations Leaders

Media Advisory

First Nations and Environmental Groups launch multiple legal challenges against Petronas LNG Project

Vancouver, BC - First Nations and environmental groups will be launching multiple legal actions against the Petronas’ PNW LNG project on Oct 27th, 2016. A press conference and filing ceremony will be held the same day at the federal courthouse in Vancouver. The massive Liquefied Natural Gas export project recently received approval from the Canadian government. It is proposed to be built overtop of some of the most sensitive and important salmon habitat in Canada - at the mouth of the Skeena River near Prince Rupert, British Columbia.

 

WHAT: Press Conference  and Legal Filing Ceremony

WHEN:  10am, October 27th, 2016

WHERE: Federal Courthouse Lobby, 701 West Georgia St, Vancouver

WHO:

•  Chief Malii (Glen Williams), Chief Negotiator, Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs

•  Chief Yahaan (Donnie Wesley), Gitwilgyoots Tribe of the Tsimshian First Nation

•  Howard Green, Spokesperson, Allied Tsimshian Tribes of Lax Kw’alaams

•  Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, President, Union of BC Indian Chiefs

•  Chief Na'Moks, Office of Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs

•  Richard Wright, House of Luutkudziiwus, Gitxsan First Nation

•  Ron West, Caribou Mountain Gil Lan Ton Clan, Lake Babine Nation

•  Greg Knox, Executive Director, SkeenaWild Conservation Trust

 

VISUALS: Chiefs will be wearing traditional regalia, Tsimshian  dancers and drummers.

 

To arrange interviews, please contact:

- Greg Knox, Skeena Wild Conservation Trust– (250) 615-1990

- Chief Malii (Glen Williams), Chief Negotiator, Gitanyow: 250 615 9597

- Chief Yahaan (Donald Wesley), Gitwilgyoots Tribe : 250-625-3359

- Chief Na'Moks (John Ridsdale), Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chiefs: 250 643 0771

- Richard Wright, Madii Lii: 250 842 8974

- Ron West, Lake Babine Nation: 250 691 1002

 

To arrange digital media (B-roll, photos, etc) Contact Quinn Barabash: 250 641 7364

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British Columbia
Indigenous Peoples
LNG - Fracking