Ms. Que Banh<p>A <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BritishColumbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BritishColumbia</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FirstNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNation</span></a> has established a <a href="https://beige.party/tags/blockade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blockade</span></a> on its traditional territory to close the access point into the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/PrinceRupert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PrinceRupert</span></a> Gas Transmission <a href="https://beige.party/tags/pipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pipeline</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/PRGT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PRGT</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ManCamp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ManCamp</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/Gitanyow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gitanyow</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/HereditaryChiefs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HereditaryChiefs</span></a> decided to blockade the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/CranberryConnector" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CranberryConnector</span></a>, a forest service road that passes over the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/CranberryRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CranberryRiver</span></a>, on Thursday after reports arrived from Gitanyow camps that large trucks and machinery were crossing their traditional territory. </p><p>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 Gitanyow maintains that the agreements are outdated and that “the project route and scope have undergone significant changes since the existing <a href="https://beige.party/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environmental</span></a> assessment was conducted in 2014,” a Gitanyow press release said. </p><p>The <a href="https://beige.party/tags/PRGTpipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PRGTpipeline</span></a> was bought by the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/NisgaaNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NisgaaNation</span></a> and their industry partner <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WesternLNG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WesternLNG</span></a> from <a href="https://beige.party/tags/TCEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TCEnergy</span></a> in March of this year. The proposed pipeline will connect <a href="https://beige.party/tags/CoastalGasLink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CoastalGasLink</span></a> to the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/KsiLisims" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KsiLisims</span></a> terminal, jointly owned by the Nisga’a and Western LNG.</p><p><a href="https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/08/26/news/first-nation-blockades-road-ahead-lng-pipeline-construction" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nationalobserver.com/2024/08/2</span><span class="invisible">6/news/first-nation-blockades-road-ahead-lng-pipeline-construction</span></a></p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/BCpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BCpoli</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/CDNpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CDNpoli</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/LNG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LNG</span></a></p>