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Wet’suwet’en hereditary chief and MP Cullen react to yesterday’s pipeline decisions

With yesterday’s announcement to dismiss Northern Gateway, Chief Namoks with the Office of the Wet’suwet’en is looking to join in solidarity against the Kinder Morgan and Enbridge’s line 3 approval.

“We will stand with out southern cousins as they stood with us against Northern Gateway,” says Namoks.

“We’ve got to take this with a grain of salt and realize it’s not over, we’ve got to take more steps and we will work in unity,” says Namoks, referring to the signing of several First Nations groups from across the country against oil sands development with Union of BC Indian Chiefs.

A moratorium on oil tanker traffic on the BC coast was also announced, something Skeena-Bulkley Valley MP Nathan Cullen has been strongly vying for.

“I put a bill on notice paper…to re-introduce the bill I first introduced in 2010 to allow a north coast tanker ban,” says Cullen.

Applauding the ‘victory’ over Northern Gateway and the moratorium, Cullen still wants to see the regulatory process for projects like Kinder Morgan reformed.

“Mr. Trudeau promised in the last election that Kinder Morgan would be put under an entirely new review; a credible process that actually listened to people when it did it’s consultations,” says Cullen.

Trudeau says the approvals will meet the government’s environmental standards and are representative of a national energy policy.

“I strongly believe that this moratorium, coupled with the rejection of the Northern Gateway pipeline, is the right call for the people of this province and for Canada,” said Trudeau.

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