Indigenous Leaders, Youth Challenge Northern B.C. Pipeline – The Energy Mix

September 10, 2024

Some Indigenous leaders and youth are posting roadblocks and mounting legal challenges to a planned gas pipeline in Northern British Columbia while the Nisga’a Nation, as the project’s partial owner, pushes back.

At the centre of the dispute is a nearly 10-year-old environmental assessment of the planned Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) pipeline, one that Gitanyow hereditary chiefs say is outdated—and set to expire this November. The pipeline was approved based on that assessment, on condition that the provincial government considers the project to have “substantially started” before the expiration, reports The Narwhal. Construction began August 26, 2024.

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