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The Skeena River is the namesake of the Gitxsan people. The Skeena is the lifeblood of the earth and the people. The threat to all life on the Skeena River from the installation of liquefied natural gas pipelines is real.

The Babine, Kispiox, Bulkley, Kalum, Sustut and many other feeder rivers to the Skeena are in danger. Heavy machinery will destroy the small streams where all species of salmon spawn each year. The livelihood of people in towns all along the Skeena is threatened. Most big-industry jobs will go to workers from outside the region, as they do now.

When will we learn that the environment is what sustains us, not money and jobs? We must protect the land that has sustained us for millennia.

—Roy Henry Vickers, 2019