Several First Nations in British Columbia have filed legal challenges to the federal government’s decision to list the proposed Pacific Link oil pipeline between Alberta to B.C.’s coast as a project of national interest, fast-tracking its review. A statement from Tsartlip First Nation on Vancouver Island says it has filed a Federal Court application for judicial review on the move, saying Ottawa has not “given sufficient information about the project and its potential impacts.” The St’at’imc Chiefs Council, representing nine nations along the proposed pipeline route in B.C.’s Interior and Fraser Valley, says it has also launched legal action asking the court to overturn the listing as a project of national interest. The group says in a statement that approving the Pacific Link project without full assessment of risks to…
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