Stop the fracked gas industry from reviving a zombie pipeline
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- Published on Sunday, 29 November -0001 16:00
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Demand a new review!
Hi Paov,
Construction could start this month on a proposed pipeline across northern B.C. that’s been sitting dormant for a decade. Together, we need to stop it.
The Prince Rupert Gas Transmission pipeline was originally intended to carry gas from fracking operations in the northeast to the Pacific Northwest LNG facility. But that facility was cancelled after opposition from Indigenous land defenders in 2017. As a result, construction on the pipeline never began.
Pipeline permits are set to expire this November — unless they manage to start construction by then. Can you help us make it harder for them?
Prince Rupert Gas Transmission Line would be built here at Lax Kw’alaams
to feed the proposed Ksi Lisims LNG project. (Peter McCartney)
Ksi Lisims LNG, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) project proposed by a consortium of fracking companies and the Nisga’a Lisims Government, near the maritime border with Alaska, wants to revive the long-stalled pipeline and change its route to supply the new proposal with fracked gas.
This summer, the BC Environmental Assessment Office (BCEAO) is asking for public comment on an amendment to the project’s permit, which would allow them to change the pipeline route to connect to Ksi Lisims LNG. That project faces opposition from the local Gitanyow and Lax Kw’alaams Nations and a petition submitted by hundreds of the Nisga’a Nation’s own members.
But the climate has changed — in more ways than one — since the provincial government granted these permits back in 2014. Since then, Indigenous peoples have won the right to withhold consent for projects on their territories. Now, the world understands the urgency of ending fossil fuel extraction and combustion.
The Prince Rupert Gas Transmission pipeline would never get a permit under today’s rules. We need as many people as possible to demand the province reject this change and order a new environmental assessment for the proposed pipeline.
We’ve got until September 3 to tell Environment and Climate Change Strategy Minister George Heyman, and his staff at the BCEAO, we won't let Ksi Lisims LNG circumvent the review process. Please write them now and share this action on social media.
For the wild,
Peter McCartney Climate Campaigner
Wilderness Committee
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