From Creekside: The B.C. provincial authorities is attempting to inexperienced mild the development of an enormous LNG terminal on Lelu Island within the Skeena Estuary — Pacific Northwest LNG, backed by Malaysian power big Petronas — with out the consent of the individuals who rejected a $1.15 billion greenback deal from Petronas to achieve that consent.
The undersigned First Nation leaders and residents of the 9 Allied Tribes of Lax Kw’alaams hereby declare that Lelu Island, and Flora and Agnew Banks are hereby protected forever, as a refuge for wild salmon and marine sources, and are to be held in belief for all future generations.
Our ancestral data, supported by trendy science, confirms this space is essential to the longer term abundance of the wild salmon our communities depend on. It’s our proper and our duty as First Nations to guard and defend this place. It’s our proper to make use of this space with out interference to reap salmon and marine sources for our sustenance, and commercially in help of our livelihoods.
We hereby prolong an invite to all First Nations, the governments of Canada and British Columbia, and all communities that depend upon the well being of Lelu Island, Flora and Agnew Banks and the Skeena River estuary, to affix us in defending this distinctive and treasured place, and to guard it forever.
Signed, on today January 23, 2016, in Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada.”
