by LaurenEBS | Aug 29, 2024 | Climate, Ksi Lisims LNG Project, PRGT pipeline
Two hereditary chiefs in northwestern British Columbia are demanding a new environmental assessment be done before a liquified natural gas pipeline is built in their territories. On Aug. 22, they burned an agreement between the previous owner of the pipeline and...
by LaurenEBS | Aug 29, 2024 | Climate, Ksi Lisims LNG Project, PRGT pipeline
Construction proceeding despite Gitanyow protest, says president of Nisga’a Government, which co-owns project Gitanyow hereditary chiefs and a group of young Indigenous people have blockaded a forest service road in northern B.C. in an attempt to prevent pipeline...
by LaurenEBS | Aug 28, 2024 | Climate, Ksi Lisims LNG Project, PRGT pipeline
At 6 a.m. Monday, Richard C. Mercer, a Nisga’a member, parked his truck across Highway 113, the Cranberry Connector, just outside Gitlax̱t’aamiks, B.C. For the next three hours, he turned back every vehicle associated with the construction of the Prince Rupert Gas...
by LaurenEBS | Aug 27, 2024 | Climate, Ksi Lisims LNG Project, PRGT pipeline
Tribal protectors representing members of four Nisg̱a’a villages set up a blockade early Monday morning to stop pipeline vehicles from proceeding past the village of Gitlax̱t’aamiks (formerly New Aiyansh) to where a work camp is being built to support construction of...
by LaurenEBS | Aug 26, 2024 | Climate, Ksi Lisims LNG Project, PRGT pipeline
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...
by LaurenEBS | Aug 26, 2024 | Climate, Ksi Lisims LNG Project, PRGT pipeline
Construction began on Aug. 24 in a remote location on Nisga’a lands A group of Indigenous young people have blockaded access to a work camp site for a natural gas pipeline to feed a proposed liquefied natural gas project on B.C.’s north coast. The blockade...
