Federal minister told LNG plans endangered if Northern Gateway OK’d – The Vancouver Observer
On the eve of a major federal decision on Enbridge’s $6-billion oil pipeline, a B.C. Aboriginal leader tells Minister Greg Rickford that its passage will “poison” the well with First Nations over LNG.
The federal minister who will decide Northern Gateway’s fate got a cool reception from B.C. Aboriginal leaders who banded together to not only oppose the oil pipeline, but to offer a new threat — a promise to block the province’s $100-billion-dollar-plus liquified natural gas (LNG) plans, if the Enbridge pipeline is approved.
“In the event that the Harper government is going to ram this through with decisions at the cabinet level, I think one of the fallouts from that will be a poisoning of the well with respect to the LNG efforts to develop First Nations support, for that set of proposals,” said Grand Chief Stewart Phillips of the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs.
