Image from the Juice Media video Honest Government Ad | Watch out, Canada about the PRGT pipeline and Ksi Lisims LNG terminal.
CBC News reports: “Prime Minister Mark Carney has invited 100 of the world’s biggest investors to a summit in Toronto this September. The conference aims to pitch organizations that control trillions of dollars in capital on investing in Canada. The organizations include private investment firms such as Blackrock and some of the world’s biggest sovereign wealth funds, including Singapore’s GIC.”
In December 2024, Reclaim Finance and BankTrack noted: “US investors account for 71% of the total investment in LNG expansion, with BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street topping the list.”
The prime minister announced in September 2025 that he had recommended LNG Canada Phase 2 to the Major Projects Office (MPO) for fast-tracking. In November 2025 Carney added Ksi Lisims to his list of major projects of “national interest” to be considered for fast-tracking by the Major Projects Office.
Gitanyow Hereditary Chief Watahayetsxw (Deborah Good) vowed to establish another blockade after the prime minister’s announcement on Ksi Lisims.
Video still: Chief Watahayetsxw responds to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s announcement, November 13, 2025. Video from Laxyipyouth on Instagram.
In January 2026, The Globe and Mail reported that “Ksi Lisims is expected to make a final investment decision in 2026” while “industry analysts expect LNG Canada to make a final investment decision by the end of 2026 on whether to proceed with Phase 2.”
The CBC News article adds: “Organizers [of the tentatively titled the Canada Investment Summit in Toronto in mid-September] did not want to get into which specific projects will be pitched [but] the oil and gas industry has been calling for new investment in pipelines and LNG terminals.”
Given the repeated heavily-armed, militarized raids by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG), now renamed the Critical Response Unit-British Columbia (CRU-BC), PBI-Canada is attentive to the risks to the safety and security of Indigenous land defenders resisting megaprojects, including the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) pipeline that would be built on Gitanyow territory to feed the proposed Ksi Lisims LNG terminal.
PBI-Canada is also awaiting the release of the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission (CRCC) systemic investigation of the RCMP C-IRG now that an interim CRCC chairperson has been appointed.
We first met Gitanyow Hereditary Chief Watahayetsxw in June 2025, then again alongside Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief Na’Moks in October 2025.
