The Prince Rupert gas pipeline project is “substantially started” and will keep its valid environmental certificate for the life of the pipeline, the BC Environmental Assessment Office has ruled.

The Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) pipeline is jointly owned by the Nisga’a Nation and Western LNG, but other First Nations and environmentalists say the decision favours corporate interests over climate commitments and Indigenous rights.

Tara Marsden, sustainability director for the Gitanyow hereditary chiefs, said the decision was not unexpected, but still “damaging and daunting.”

She said the province frequently bends or breaks its own laws and regulations to accommodate PRGT, undermining the integrity of the environmental review process.

“This is absolutely not in the interests of G

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