Decolonial Solidarity invites you to stand up to Trump in support of Land Defenders opposing the PRGT pipeline.
Join us to say NO! to LNG expansion
Time : Saturday April 5 at 1:00 PM
Location : RBC at 99 Bank Street
You are probably aware that the BC government is pushing three huge LNG projects through Indigenous territories. This infrastructure would serve to extract methane from the Montney Shale Formation, transport it to the Pacific coast, and ship it to Asia.
Coastal GasLink Phase2: Several compressor stations to be built along the CGL pipeline on Wet’suwet’en territory, doubling its transport capacity
Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT), a 900 km pipeline that would run north of CGL, cutting through Gitanyow, Gitxsan and Nisga’a territories
The Ksi Lisims export facility for LNG
These projects are backed by U.S. interests. Western LNG, the Houston-based company promoting PRGT and Ksi Lisims, is partly owned by Blackstone whose CEO Steve Schwarzman is an advisor to Trump. They want to make big money by propelling North American expansion of LNG exports. See https://pbicanada.org/2025/01/27/how-trumps-threatened-tariffs-could-push-forward-the-prgt-pipeline-and-put-at-risk-indigenous-land-defenders/
Wet’suwet’en resists construction both of the compressor stations and of man camps that bring disruption and violence to their communities. Gitanyow and NIsga’a Land Defenders are occupying the ground, and a puppy shelter has been set up by Maas Gwitkunuxws Teresa Brown near the PRGT route.
The decision to approve the PRGT pipeline will be made in the coming weeks.
If PRGT is approved, investors will turn to banks to borrow the billions $ needed to build the pipeline. RBC, as Canada’s top financier of fossil fuels, may be considering financing PRGT.