A #BritishColumbia #FirstNation has established a #blockade on its traditional territory to close the access point into the #PrinceRupert Gas Transmission #pipeline #PRGT #ManCamp.

#Gitanyow #HereditaryChiefs decided to blockade the #CranberryConnector, a forest service road that passes over the #CranberryRiver, 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 Gitanyow maintains that the agreements are outdated and that “the project route and scope have undergone significant changes since the existing #environmental assessment was conducted in 2014,” a Gitanyow press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.

The #PRGTpipeline was bought by the #NisgaaNation and their industry partner #WesternLNG from #TCEnergy in March of this year. The proposed pipeline will connect #CoastalGasLink to the #KsiLisims terminal, jointly owned by the Nisga’a and Western LNG.

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/08/26/news/first-nation-blockades-road-ahead-lng-pipeline-construction

#BCpoli #CDNpoli #Indigenous #LNG

BC #EnergyRegulator #BCER is #investigating after #CoastalGasLink #CGL reported 2 spills of #ClayLubricant while it was tunnelling under #MoriceRiver to build a #LNG #pipeline through northern #BritishColumbia. 
The area has been the site of #conflict between #Wetsuweten #HereditaryChiefs & supporters & CGL, its workers & the #RCMP . 

The #SalmonBearing Morice River on Wet'suwet'en #TraditionalTerritory, is 0a #sacred #headwater called the #WedzinKwa

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/coastal-gaslink-2-clay-lubricant-spills-tunnelling-morice-river-northern-bc-1.6809328

#Indigenous #BCNDP