Despite Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's suggestion to revive the Northern Gateway pipeline project in light of U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff threat, the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs reiterates its stance against the project. Grand Chief Stewart Phillip apologized for previous comments suggesting support for the pipeline, emphasizing the environmental risks and past opposition efforts.
The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs said in a statement that the answer to the Northern Gateway pipeline from Alberta to the Pacific "is still no," after Alberta Premier Danielle Smith suggested reviving the project in light of U.S. President Donald Trump's threat of tariffs on Canadian exports.Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, the president of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, in February 2020. Philip walked back his support for a controversial pipeline through northern B.C. on Wednesday.
"The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs has a long history of resolutions from the Chiefs Council opposing large-scale destructive resource projects, including Enbridge Northern Gateway and the proposed Prince Rupert Gas Transmission pipeline," the statement said. "This mandate has not changed." "We are staring into the abyss of uncertainty right now with climate change, the climate crisis and the American threat," Phillip had said, describing past efforts opposing the pipeline as a "different time."
But on Wednesday, the chief said that while everyone should be planning for the possibility of U.S. tariffs, it did not mean building more pipelines.Tariff threat should force British Columbians to rethink travel to the U.S., premier says The Northern Gateway pipeline project proposed to move bitumen oil 1,177 kilometres from Alberta to the northern coast of B.C.
"That's really the way that, through those kinds of major infrastructure projects, that we can start diversifying our customer base around the world," Smith said in an interview from Washington, D.C.
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