Northwestern BC First Nations set up camp to halt LNG project – Vancouver Sun
Company, province won’t respond to questions on possible investigation of alternate site
Members of northern B.C. First Nations have set up a camp on Lelu Island near Prince Rupert to prevent its use as a liquefied natural gas terminal.
Lax Kw’alaams member Joey Wesley said in a phone interview they made the move because Pacific NorthWest LNG was getting ready to drill on the island and in the ocean.
He said they also had learned the company was going to remove eelgrass from salmon-rearing habitat at Flora Bank off of Lelu Island in an effort to see if it could be transplanted elsewhere in the Skeena River estuary.
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