Another pipeline battle brews in northern B.C. – Ricochet

September 9 2024

In the misty mountains of northwestern B.C., resistance is unfolding under the looming shadow of the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) pipeline.

Hereditary chiefs who signed pipeline community benefits agreements in 2014 are backpedaling — fearful of environmental impacts and the acceleration of the climate crisis.

“This project doesn’t make any sense,” said Gitanyow Hereditary Chief Gamlakyeltxw, Wil Marsden, of the Lax Ganeda (frog) Clan, via phone from a blockade erected August 22 on unceded Gitanyow lax’yip (territory).

Marsden, who holds the highest chief name out of four Gitanyow clans, along with Lax Ganeada Hereditary Chief Watkhayetsxw, Deborah Good, helped lead the recent shutdown of the remote Cranberry Connector or Nass Forest Service Road (approximately 128 kilometres north of Terrace) in Watakhayetsxw territory.

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