TERRACE, B.C. – Supporters and opponents of the Northern Gateway pipeline through northern B.C. will make their final pitches to a federal review panel starting Monday.
It’s the last stage of public hearings before the panel issues its decision later this year.
Calgary-based Enbridge is slated to be the first to officially present final arguments for its project.
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But opponents made their case at a public rally yesterday in Terrace, expressing concern about the potential environmental damage if there is a pipeline leak.
Art Sterritt of the Coastal First Nations told the roughly 200 people in attendence the proposal is a disaster in the making.
The Enbridge project would see an oil and natural gas pipeline stretching from Alberta to the B-C port city of Kitamat.
But it has run into intense opposition and the B-C government has said it can’t support the project in its current form.
Final arguments are scheduled over the next two weeks, and the panel’s report to the federal government is due by the end of the year.
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