• Lelu Island and Petronas
• Salmon Nation Summit
• The Lelu Island Declaration

Salmon Nation Summit

Malaysian-based Petronas proposed to build a LNG terminal on Lelu Island in the Skeena estuary. Before the projects cancellation in 2017, the Lax Kw'alaams people voted to turn down a $1.14 billion benefit agreement offer due to concerns over impacts to salmon, and Lax’Kw’alaams Hereditary Chief led an occupation of Lelu Island, which is part of their ancestral territory. 

The Lelu Island Declaration was the culmination of a two-day Salmon Nation Summit, held in Prince Rupert, B.C. on January 22 and 23 2016, where more than 300 hereditary and elected First Nations leaders, scientists, politicians, commercial and sport fishermen, and other northern residents came together to defend wild salmon from the proposed Pacific NorthWest LNG project.

Signatories to the declaration included hereditary leaders from the Nine Allied Tribes of the Lax Kw'alaams First Nation, and hereditary leaders of the Gitxsan, Wet'suwet'en, Lake Babine, and Haisla First Nations. Grand Chief Stewart Phillip of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs also signed the declaration.

Click here to watch a video of Dr. Jonathan Moore's science presentation from the Summit.