‘We tried to stop it’: chair of Indigenous coalition bidding for Trans Mountain went to court to block the project, by DearOtherPeople cdnpoli (subs)
The Western Indigenous Pipeline Group is a coalition of Indigenous communities that has partnered with Pembina in its attempt to buy Trans Mountain. Chief David Jimmie of the Squiala First Nation is the chair of the Western Indigenous Pipeline Group.
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