The president of an organization representing First Nations along British Columbia's North Coast says it won't support a new bitumen pipeline proposal from Alberta's premier "now or ever."
Danielle Smith announced Wednesday that Alberta was taking the lead and acting as a proponent for a pipeline to B.C.'s northwest coast, and that the province had applied to the federal Major Projects Office to get approvals for a project that the premier says is in the national interest.
The pipeline, however, has no private backer — and faces major hurdles in the form of a moratorium on oil tankers in northern B.C.
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