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Office of Wet’suwet’en propose review of Coastal GasLink environmental certificate

The Office of Wet’suwet’en have asked the B.C Supreme Court to set aside the province’s decision to extend the environmental certificate for Coastal Gas Link’s proposed pipeline for another five years/

The Wet’suwet’en application was heard by the Supreme Court Thursday (Oct 1).

According to a statement, the extension decision is of crucial importance to the Wet’suwet’en as it represents the only opportunity for legally binding conditions to be added to the certificate in order to address adverse effects.

The Office of the Wet’suwet’en says an adverse effect is the 2019 final report of the Inquiry of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG).

It added there is a risk of harm to women and girls arising from the project.

In an MMIWG report done in 2019 it found a direct link between work camps for resource projects and the increase of gender-based violence, the statement said.

“With some of our own members, murdered and missing, the stakes couldn’t be higher for us. And yet the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office says the Wet’suwet’en is not a party and are owned only a minimal duty of fairness in their decision-making on Coastal GasLink,” said Hereditary Chief Woos.

The statement also said, the Wet’suwet’en legal challenge also highlights CGL’s extraordinary record of persistent and ongoing non-compliance with legally binding project conditions since 2016.

“As a nation with a strong presumption of the title we believe the Wet’suwet’en are owed full procedural fairness by British Columbia, especially for a decision that has such profound impacts on the lives and safety of Wet’suwet’en women and girls,” said Chief Hagwilneghl.

The CGL pipeline was at the centre of talks by the B.C, Canada, and the Hereditary chiefs after protests that occurred in February.

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Lindsay Newman
Lindsay Newman
News Reporter Lindsay joined the MyBulkleyLakesNow news team in 2019. She was born and raised in Cambridge, Ontario where she then moved to Toronto to complete Journalism school at Humber College where she graduated in 2017. Lindsay started her news journey at 680 News- Toronto's largest talk radio station. Lindsay then moved on to 680 News, where she was an audio editor. She has always loved the idea of living in British Columbia since she was a teenager and was excited to make the to move out to Smithers, BC to branch out her journalism skills. In Lindsay's spare time she is usually relaxing with her two cats and in the warmer months going on hikes with her friends and partner.

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