First Nation blockades road ahead of LNG pipeline construction – Canada’s National Observer
August 26, 2024
A B.C. First Nation has established a blockade on its traditional territory to close the access point into the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission pipeline (PRGT) man camp.
Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs decided to blockade the Cranberry Connector, a forest service road that passes over the Cranberry River, on Thursday after reports arrived from Gitanyow camps that large trucks and machinery were crossing their traditional territory.
As the blockade was being established, a ceremony was held to burn 10-year-old pipeline benefit agreements over the PRGT. Gitanyow maintains that the agreements are outdated and that “the project route and scope have undergone significant changes since the existing environmental assessment was conducted in 2014,” a Gitanyow press release said.
