As #PRGT construction ramps up so that pipeline owners can prove a “substantial start” before their outdated environmental certificate expires in November, opposition amongst northern B.C. Indigenous groups is intensifying, with youth and chiefs from the Gitxsan, Ts’msyen, Gitanyow, and Nisga’a nations vowing legal and direct action against the B.C. government and other pipeline backers.
photos were taken at the action led by Gitxsan @laxyipyouth and supporters yesterday as they denounced the PRGT pipeline project during the NDP’s swearing-in ceremony at Government House.
Yesterday, gitanyow chiefs and allies in new aiyansh, hagwilget and victoria slowed down traffic for two hours to hand out information about the prince rupert gas transmission (PRGT) project, a fracked gas pipeline that would cross more than 50km of gitanyow territory — without their consent.