B.C. Supreme Court hearings begin for legal challenges to LNG pipeline project
Petitioners say the 750-kilometre project stalled for a decade and should face a new environmental assessment.
- On Monday, B.C. Supreme Court hearings began for two legal challenges contesting the provincial government's approval of the $12-billion Prince Rupert Gas Transmission pipeline project based on a 12-year-old environmental review.
- Petitioners argue the project failed to meet construction deadlines, challenging the Environmental Assessment Office's ruling that the pipeline was "substantially started," which allowed it to bypass a new environmental assessment.
- Lawyers with the charity Ecojustice, representing the Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition, appeared in court to contest the approval, while Gitxsan Hereditary Chief Charlie Wright cited concerns about the route through "one of the last remaining untouched areas."
- Project co-owners the Nisga'a Nation and Houston-based Western LNG maintain the ruling was reasonable and based on an "internally coherent chain of analysis" that should be upheld by the court.
- A final investment decision later this year will determine whether the $10-billion Ksi Lisims LNG project, which the pipeline is intended to supply, proceeds with development at Pearse Island.
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LNG pipeline project through 'pristine wilderness' faces BC court challenges
The BC Supreme Court is set to weigh in on two petitions filed over the provincial government's decision last year to deem the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission pipeline "substantially started," meaning it wouldn't need a new environmental assessment, though that review was conducted 12 years prior.
Challenge to Prince Rupert pipeline project in B.C. Supreme Court this week
A Gitxsan Nation hereditary chief is challenging the B.C. government's decision to allow a pipeline to go through what he calls "pristine wilderness," on the strength of a 12-year-old environmental review, while disregarding traditional Gitxsan governance by declining to attend feast hall meetings.
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B.C. Supreme Court hearings begin for legal challenges to LNG pipeline project
VANCOUVER - The B.C. Supreme Court is set to weigh in on two legal challenges filed over the provincial government's decision to allow a liquefied natural gas pipeline project to
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