Calls for dialogue as pipeline polarizes some in northern British Columbia

By Amy Smart / The Canadian Press
Hereditary chiefs say project has no authority, despite signed agreements with elected First Nation councils

HOUSTON, B.C.—A natural gas pipeline project has polarized many communities across northern British Columbia in a dispute a Wet’suwet’en elder says he hopes will be resolved through dialogue. Russell Tiljoe, 83, has long-established ties with the First Nation whose hereditary clan chiefs say the Coastal GasLink project has no authority to run through its 22,000 square kilometres of traditional territory without their consent.…

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January 19, 2020

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