"Would you put that sheen on your vegetable garden?" asked Bob Chamberlin, the nation’s elected chief councillor. "They have no technology whatsoever to recover that sheen."
The leader of a First Nation off the north coast of Vancouver Island says he’s worried about the impact a fuel spill at a nearby fish farm will have on his community’s food source.
"We have a message for the Pacific Northwest LNG project's investors in Asia — sell your stock," Yvonne Lattie, Gitxsan Hereditary Chief of Wilp Gwininitw, said at a press conference in Vancouver.
The federal government is seeking a way to regulate underwater shipping noise as part of its plan to protect an endangered group of killer whales from increased oil tanker traffic off Vancouver.
New research shows that the project proponent gave the government some flimsy evidence that neglected to mention how its proposed gas terminal would harm vulnerable Pacific salmon.
The group is in Ottawa this week seeking to enlist federal help in stopping B.C. copper and gold mines from polluting the headwaters of key salmon rivers that flow from Canada into Alaska.