A legal challenge to the construction of a section of a major gas pipeline project in northern B.C. has been thrown out by a judge.

The roughly 900-kilometre-long Prince Rupert Gas Transmission project is meant to transport natural gas from Hudson’s Hope in northeastern B.C. to the proposed Ksi Lisims liquefied natural gas export terminal 82 kilometres north of Prince Rupert.

The BC Energy Regulator (BCER) had previously issued permits for seven sections of the pipeline. In response, Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition, the Kispiox Valley Community Centre Association, and the Kispiox Band filed a request for judicial review challenging a BCER decision to allow construction on a section of the pipeline known as Section 5B.

The three groups argued that the BCER unlawfully permitted co

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