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Tensions Rise Over The Nisga’a Nation’s Plans To Build Pipeline Across Northern B.C.

Oct 1, 2024 | Ksi Lisims LNG Project, LNG Development, PRGT pipeline

A B.C. pipeline project touted by the Nisga’a Nation as a prime example of economic reconciliation has instead become a thorny issue marked by rising tensions and complications with nearby Indigenous groups. Construction of the 750-kilometre Prince Rupert Gas...

RCMP Officer Guilty Of Lying Under Oath Files Stay Of Proceedings In Dale Culver Case

Sep 26, 2024 | RCMP

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Gitanyow Lax’yip, September 26, 2024: The Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs are outraged by the latest development in the case of Dale Culver, who died in RCMP custody seven years ago. After being found guilty of obstruction of justice this summer,...

B.C.’s Salmon Industry Is Facing An Uphill Swim Against Climate Change

Sep 25, 2024 | Climate, Fisheries

Salmon populations in the province are dwindling thanks to a number of different factors It was on a trip to Kamloops in the fall of 2022 that Dane Chauvel could see, starkly, just how much B.C. salmon are under threat. The second-generation fisherman, founder of...

Gitanyow Nears Completion Of Independent Pipeline Environmental Assessment

Sep 25, 2024 | Ksi Lisims LNG Project, LNG Development, PRGT pipeline

The current environmental assessment certificate for the PRGT line is set to expire on Nov. 25, 2024 The Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) pipeline's environmental assessment is a point of contention between the Gitanyow First Nation and the Western LNG-Nisga'a...

Indigenous Leaders, Youth Challenge Northern B.C. Pipeline

Sep 10, 2024 | Climate, Ksi Lisims LNG Project, LNG Development, PRGT pipeline

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...

NAC Resident Chef Bringing Indigenous Flavours — Like ‘Forest Powder’ — To The Menu

Sep 9, 2024 | Fisheries

The National Arts Centre sous chef's cooking will be showcased at special dinners on Sept. 19 and Oct. 3. If chef Chris Commandant could have had his way, there would be moose meat on the current menu at 1 Elgin, the National Art Centre’s restaurant. “I would have...