Included were hereditary chiefs of the First Nation. The Haisla will co-own Cedar LNG with Pembina Pipeline Corp., and it’s hoped LNG will start shipping to Asia from the proposed $3-billion floating export terminal by 2027
Premier Eby and Crystal Smith, the elected chief of the Haisla Nation, called it a historic deal, one that exemplifies the province’s commitment to the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples legislation.
For one, the support for the project by Haida hereditary chiefs is in stark contrast to the staunch opposition of the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs, who have been leading a years-long protest against construction of the Coastal GasLink pipeline. The pipeline is the same one that will feed natural gas to the Cedar project. The B.C.
But the province is also committed to its CleanBC plan, which is supposed to lower the province’s climate-changing emissions by 40 per cent from 2007 levels by the end of this decade. As of November, there had been little progress. on that front. Last October, he announced at a news conference: “We cannot continue to expand fossil fuel infrastructure and hit our climate goals.”with legislature reporter Justine Hunter, Premier Eby was more nuanced, declining to say yes to the expansion of projects such as LNG, but also not saying no.“We have concluded that this project can fit within B.C.’s climate targets and goals,” environment minister George Heyman said.
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