BC First Nation signs pipeline benefits deal with province – CanadianManufacturing.com

November 21, 2014

B.C. Liberals said agreement is first of many benefit-sharing deals with First Nations that include skills training

VICTORIA—The head of the Nisga’a Nation said his people are embracing the possibility of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry by permitting energy companies to run a pipeline through the nation’s territory in northwestern British Columbia, with the hope for more investment to come.

The Nisga’a and B.C. Liberal government signed a benefit sharing agreement that will see the nation receive about $6 million from the province for a proposed natural gas pipeline that would pass through 97 kilometres of its treaty lands.

Nisga’a Nation president Mitchell Stevens said at a news conference at the legislature that his people want much more than the proposed Prince Rupert Gas Transmission project.