First Nation withdraws support for B.C. energy export project

The Globe and Mail: Metlakatla, as one of the co-owners of coal exporter Trigon Pacific Terminals Ltd. on Ridley Island, is upset that the port authority has frozen out the First Nation and other Trigon partners in their bid to diversify into different commodities, notably propane and butane.

The dispute was triggered when the port authority rejected Trigon’s diversification plans to protect the export monopoly on liquefied petroleum gas from Ridley Island. “This is why Metlakatla has notified federal and provincial regulators that we have withdrawn our consent for REEF,” Robert Nelson, Metlakatla’s elected chief councillor, said in a statement…