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How Trump’s threatened tariffs could push forward the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) pipeline and put at risk Indigenous land defenders

Peace Brigaides International - Canada - Brent Patterson - January 27, 2025

EXCERPT: "We are following the on-the-ground resistance by Indigenous land defenders to the construction of the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) fracked gas pipeline on Gitanyow, Gitxsan and Nisga’a territories in British Columbia.

US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose up to 25 percent tariffs on Canadian exports, possibly as early as February 1. Trump, as the BBC reports, has also “said the US does not need Canadian energy, vehicles or lumber as he spoke to global business leaders at the World Economic Forum [on January 23].”

This situation has revived in media reports the idea of the Northern Gateway pipeline (a proposed project that would send bitumen from Alberta to the north coast of British Columbia for export overseas) and the Energy East pipeline (a previously proposed oil pipeline from Alberta to New Brunswick).

The Business Council of Canada, an advocacy organization of chief executive officers, also says: “Getting more product to tidewater … would provide Canada with more soft power on the world stage and reduce our economic dependence on the U.S. …Building new export pipelines in Canada will be a complicated business no matter which government is in power, so best to stick with the projects where the initial legwork has largely been completed: Prince Rupert Gas Transmission and Northern Gateway. Get these built by 2030.” . . . . "

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