Vaughn Palmer: Past support for holdout may haunt NDP with LNG project

VICTORIA — Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation Minister Scott Fraser was in Smithers Thursday, meeting First Nations leaders in hopes of clearing one of the remaining obstacles to a $40-billion LNG project.
The obstacle is the Unist’ot’en, a community cum protest encampment located south of Smithers and directly in the path of the proposed Coastal GasLink pipeline.
The pipeline would transport gas from the northeast to Kitimat, site for the LNG Canada export terminal,