Indigenous Group: 8 First Nations along pipeline route

Business: Enbridge

Issue: Enbridge’s $7.9-billion Northern Gateway project pipeline route which spans 1,170 kilometres from Bruderheim, Alberta to Kitimat. that would link Alberta’s oilsands to British Columbia’s north coast. The project would dramatically increase tanker traffic along the northwest coast.

Approved in 2014

Comment: Jan. 12, 2016: Vancouver Sun – BC Supreme Court ruled that “BC government abdicated its statutory duties and breached its duty to consult with the Nation when it signed and failed to terminate an Equivalency Agreement that handed the federal National Energy Board (NEB) sole jurisdiction over the environmental assessment decision-making regarding Enbridge’s Northern Gateway project.”

The Constitutional challenge was brought by the Gitga’at First Nation and the Coastal First Nations
Rejected by federal government