Why Wasn’t the LNG Pipeline Routed Through Lands of Supporters Rather Than Lands of Opponents?

EMAIL: sent to LNG Canada partners and contractors, BC NDP government, BC NDP MLAs and MPs (email addresses follow):

 

Some of us who stand in solidarity with the Wet’suet’en regarding LNG Canada’s pipeline would like an answer to this question:

If — as claimed by the BC Government, Coastal GasLink, TC Energy & partners, LNG Canada & partners and some media — other Indigenous people welcome this pipeline, then why isn’t it routed through their territories instead of lands of the Unist’ot’en and Wet’suet’en who oppose it?

 

Ex-MP Nathan Cullen asked this question last year. No reply from Coastal GasLink. The route chosen by CGL and approved by the Environmental Assessment Office on Horgan’s watch, was called an alternate route, implying there was an earlier-planned route. And the Wet’suet’en proposed an alternate McDonnell Lake route that CGL rejected.

Why didn’t the Environmental Assessment Office — in line with the First Nations mandate Horgan claims to have given — permit a route that could be adjusted to not invade Unist’ot’en territory? Why did Minister Mungall — who supposedly oversees the EAO and received the same mandate — not insist on adjusting the route?

Is the BC Government overseeing its agencies or still relying on the “professional reliance” (ie don’t have to be bothered with oversight) model of the previous Liberal government?

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