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Enbridge pipeline project faces more opposition
Enbridge Inc.'s proposed $5.5-billion Northern Gateway pipeline hit renewed waves of opposition this week.
Another group of first nations communities has publicly vowed to reject the financial benefits package Enbridge devised to encourage their participation in the project and the introduction of another privatemembers is making its way through Parliament seeking to ban oil tanker traffic off British Columbia's north coast.
On Tuesday night, a group of communities under the name Yinka Dene Alliance told Enbridge officials at a community meeting in Prince George that they "categorically reject" a financial benefits package offered by the company over their environmental concerns about the project.
"There is no amount of money that would get us involved," Geraldine Thomas-Flurer, coordinator of the alliance, which represents five firstnation communities along the pipeline's route in the central interior of B.C.
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Enbridge Inc.'s proposed $5.5-billion Northern Gateway pipeline hit renewed waves of opposition this week.
Another group of first nations communities has publicly vowed to reject the financial benefits package Enbridge devised to encourage their participation in the project and the introduction of another privatemembers is making its way through Parliament seeking to ban oil tanker traffic off British Columbia's north coast.
On Tuesday night, a group of communities under the name Yinka Dene Alliance told Enbridge officials at a community meeting in Prince George that they "categorically reject" a financial benefits package offered by the company over their environmental concerns about the project.
"There is no amount of money that would get us involved," Geraldine Thomas-Flurer, coordinator of the alliance, which represents five firstnation communities along the pipeline's route in the central interior of B.C.
Read the full article here.