From Creekside: The B.C. provincial authorities is making an strive to inexperienced gentle the advance of an enormous LNG terminal on Lelu Island in the Skeena Estuary — Pacific Northwest LNG, backed by Malaysian energy broad Petronas — with out the consent of the oldsters that rejected a $1.15 billion buck deal from Petronas to receive that consent.
The undersigned First Nation leaders and electorate of the 9 Allied Tribes of Lax Kw’alaams hereby portray that Lelu Island, and Flora and Agnew Banks are hereby trusty forever, as a refuge for wild salmon and marine sources, and are to be held in belief for all future generations.
Our ancestral recordsdata, supported by authorized science, confirms this condo is essential to the long speed abundance of the wild salmon our communities depend on. It’s our merely and our responsibility as First Countries to provide protection to and defend this device. It’s our merely to spend this condo with out interference to reap salmon and marine sources for our sustenance, and commercially in help of our livelihoods.
We hereby lengthen an invitation to all First Countries, the governments of Canada and British Columbia, and all communities that rely on the health of Lelu Island, Flora and Agnew Banks and the Skeena River estuary, to be half of us in defending this uncommon and treasured device, and to provide protection to it forever.
Signed, on nowadays January 23, 2016, in Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Canada.”