First Nation signs pipeline agreement

Nadleh Whut’en First Nation Chief Martin Louie performs a drum song to commemorate the signing of a deal between his people and TransCanada-Coastal GasLink Pipelines on Monday, as the company’s project president Rick Gateman and Lheidli T’enneh First Nation Chief Dominic Frederick look on. – Citizen photo by Frank Peebles

by Frank Peebles, Prince George Citizen, February 22, 2016

This is not the traditional territory of the Nadleh Whut’en First Nation, but a large contingent of their people came to Prince George this past week to sign an agreement for a pipeline to pass through their historic lands.

A crack in the fracking pipeline: Coastal Gaslink changes its plans

Members of Unis’tot’en camp, November 2012.

New route is “further away from Unist’ot’en Camp”
by Wild Coast and Forest Action Network, Oct 12, 2015

Great news: Unist’ot’en Camp has successfully stopped police and pipeline surveyors from entering their indigenous territory in Northern BC for another year. Now we learn that executives with Coastal Gaslink are (quietly) seeking to change the fracked gas pipeline route.

Everything We Know About the Possible RCMP Raid on the Unist’ot’en Camp

By Julie Chadwick, Vice.com, September 1, 2015

Tension remains high in Northwestern BC as representatives from the Unist’ot’en clan and their legal representatives held a meeting with the RCMP regarding the fate of their settlement camp on Tuesday afternoon.

A non-violent occupation of unceded Unist’ot’en traditional territory since 2010, the camp was originally established to stand in the intended path of the Pacific Trail natural gas pipeline. It has since expanded to include structures built directly in the path of the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline and the TransCanada Coastal Gaslink pipeline, encompassed within a sweeping declaration that all pipelines are banned from their territories. A checkpoint ensures that no one enters or leaves the territory without their direct consent.

Wet’suwet’en chiefs distance First Nation from Unist’ot’en camp, urge cooperation with pipeline companies

Wet’suwet’en First Nation band council sign deal for Coastal GasLink pipeline, December 2014.  In return the band council will receive $2.8 million.  Second from left is Wet’suwet’en FN chief Karen Ogen. Photo from CFNR FM

by Travis Lupick, The Georgia Straight, August 31st, 2015

The Wet’suwet’en First Nation saw a massive groundswell of support from across British Columbia following rumours that the RCMP was preparing to move on a camp that stands in the way of proposed gas and oil pipelines.

But not everybody within the Wet’suwet’en Nation is happy about that, including four elected chiefs.

Today (August 31), Wet’suwet’en chief Karen Ogen, Nee Tahi Buhn chief Ray Morris, Burns Lake Band chief Dan George, and Skin Tyee Nation chief Rene Skin issued a media release that distances the First Nation as a whole from the camp’s actions. Going further, it denounces the camp’s goal of blocking pipeline developments.

Wet’suwet’en signs LNG pipeline deal

Wet’suwet’en First Nation band council sign LNG deal with Coastal Gaslink Project. Photo from CFNR FM.

by Bill Fee, CFNR FM, December 10, 2014

Another Burns Lake area First Nation has signed an agreement with the BC government related to a natural gas pipeline project.

The Wet’suwet’en First Nation, formerly known as the Broman Lake Band, stands to receive $2.8 million dollars from the province for the proposed Coastal GasLink project.

The pipeline would transport gas from the Dawson Creek area to the proposed LNG Canada facility near Kitimat where it would be liquefied for export to overseas markets.

Unist’ot’en evict survey crew from TransCanada

Published on Jul 24, 2014

On July 22, 2014, the Unist’ot’en camp evicted a TransCanada crew working on the Coastal Gaslink pipeline within their territories in northern BC. If caught tresspassing again, TransCanada’s equipment will be confiscated.

TransCanada gas pipeline may sidestep environmental review

Federal environmental assessment not guaranteed on B.C. pipeline with 320 water crossing

By Larry Pynn, Vancouver Sun, November 26, 2012

TransCanada’s planned 650-kilometre natural gas pipeline to Kitimat would cross about 320 watercourses including the habitat of more than 100 species at risk, such as white sturgeon, woodland caribou and marbled murrelet, company documents show.

But under Conservative government changes to environmental laws, there’s no guarantee the Coastal GasLink project will undergo a federal environmental assessment.