Saturday, June 14, 2025

B.C. Government Just Gave the Green Light to a Dangerous Pipeline

🇨🇦🧐🤔💔The B.C. Government Just Gave the Green Light to a Dangerous Pipeline. We Deserve Better. #StopPRGT

Posted by Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita | June 14, 2025


I’m heartbroken and disappointed 😭today.

Last Thursday, the B.C. government quietly announced it had granted the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) pipeline a “Substantial Start” designation — even though construction was paused years ago, and large parts of the pipeline haven’t even been built.

What does this mean? It means the PRGT project now has a permanent environmental green light — no updated review, no accountability, no modern climate science, no meaningful Indigenous consent. Just a rubber stamp that locks in a project from another era.

And this is happening during a climate emergency. While wildfires burn, oceans warm, and children march for their future, the government doubles down on methane-spewing fossil fuel infrastructure.

This isn’t climate leadership. This is climate betrayal.


⚠️ Why This Matters

  • The “Substantial Start” loophole was designed to prevent indefinite delays, not to sneak through outdated, dangerous megaprojects without scrutiny.
  • This pipeline supports LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) — a fossil fuel the government pretends is clean. In reality, it leaks methane and fuels the climate crisis.
  • This decision bypasses Indigenous governance, ignoring the voices of land defenders and hereditary leaders who have never consented to this destruction.

💬 Where is the Leadership?

People are talking about Mark Carney as the next big hope — the supposed climate-savvy finance guy. But where is the bold action now? Where is the real climate accountability? If this is the tone we're setting for the next political chapter, we should be very worried.

Because if even this government, which talks such a big game on climate, caves to fossil fuel pressure — then we have to ask: Who are they really working for?


✊ What Can We Do?

We must not let this slide quietly. We need to make noise. Share, speak up, support frontline defenders, and demand a modern environmental review. Here’s what you can do today:

  • 💻 Email your MLA and demand the project be re-reviewed under current climate and Indigenous rights frameworks.
  • 📣 Use your voice online — tag politicians, share this story, use #StopPRGT #ClimateJustice #NoConsentNoProject
  • 🌱 Support Indigenous land defenders and donate to groups like Unist’ot’en Camp and RAVEN Trust if you’re able.

This pipeline isn’t just a pipe in the ground — it’s a symbol of all the broken promises we’ve heard about reconciliation and climate action. And we won’t forget.

This is still Unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ Territories, and we have a responsibility to protect it — not hand it over to gas companies on borrowed time.

No more lies. No more loopholes. No more pipelines.

We deserve better.

In solidarity,
✍️ Tina Winterlik aka Zipolita



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