By Wolfgang Depner Coastal First Nations president Marilyn Slett said she called on Prime Minister Mark Carney in a meeting Tuesday to maintain and protect the oil tanker moratorium in his government’s pipeline talks with Alberta, saying afterwards that “it would take just one spill to destroy our way of life.” “We reiterated that there is no technology that can clean up an oil spill at sea,” she told a news conference after the meeting in Prince Rupert, B.C. Slett, who is also the elected Chief Councillor of the Heiltsuk Tribal Council, said local First Nations “must be in the room” for any discussion about their territories. The meeting was held to restart relations between Carney and the advocacy group, which works to protect the B.C. coastline and the Great…
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