US EditionB.C. First Nations make legal challenges to huge Ksi Lisims LNG project
Two B.C. First Nations allege federal approval ignored their rights and economic concerns over the Ksi Lisims LNG project, which plans to export 12 million tonnes annually.
- Two British Columbia First Nations are asking Federal Court to quash approval of the Ksi Lisims floating natural-gas facility earlier this month.
- Last month, the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada said the minister approved the offshore facility after the Province of British Columbia's assessment, and Federal Energy Minister Tim Hodgson hailed it as a `one project, one review` example.
- The project would process two-billion cubic feet of gas per day with two floating facilities off Pearse Island exporting 12-million tonnes per year, involving Nisga'a Nation, Rockies LNG, and Houston-based Western LNG.
- Economic concerns over ownership and feasibility drive Metlakatla First Nation’s legal challenge, arguing approval rested on `speculative economic concepts` and ignored economic feasibility concerns tied to Western LNG.
- In September, two B.C. legal challenges argued the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission line had not been `substantially started`, keeping the 2014 environmental assessment certificate valid.
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First Nations make legal challenges to huge Ksi Lisims LNG project in northwest B.C.
The Lax Kw'alaams Band and the Metlakatla First Nation filed separate judicial reviews in Federal Court earlier this month, alleging the Minister of Environment and Climate Change ignored their concerns about the adverse impacts of the massive LNG project.
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Europe SaysFirst Nations in B.C. make legal challenges to huge Ksi Lisims LNG project
The Lax Kw'alaams Band and the Metlakatla First Nation filed separate judicial reviews in Federal Court earlier this month, alleging the Minister of Environment and Climate Change ignored their concerns about the adverse impacts of the massive LNG project.
BC First Nations make legal challenges to huge Ksi Lisims LNG project
The Lax Kw'alaams Band and the Metlakatla First Nation filed separate judicial reviews in Federal Court earlier this month, alleging the Minister of Environment and Climate Change ignored their concerns about the adverse impacts of the massive LNG project.
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B.C. First Nations make legal challenges to huge Ksi Lisims LNG project
B.C. First Nations make legal challenges to huge Ksi Lisims LNG project – Energeticcity.ca
VANCOUVER — Two British Columbia First Nations are taking the federal government to court to quash a decision approving the Ksi Lisims floating natural-gas facility and marine export terminal. The Lax Kw’alaams Band and the Metlakatla First Nation filed separate judicial reviews in Federal Court earlier this month, alleging the Minister of Environment and Climate Change ignored their concerns about the adverse impacts of the massive LNG project.…
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