NORTHERN B.C.—Salmon advocates defending the globally important Skeena River are calling on people throughout North America to support the river in the face of a new threat. The latest plans from PacificNorthwest LNG have developers building a Golden Gate Bridge-sized causeway over the bank to service 350 tankers a year at a new deepwater port in the Skeena estuary. Industry funded studies have shown little risk to salmon. However, new science conducted by lower Skeena tribes and Simon Fraser University shows that Flora Bank and Lelu Is. in the Skeena estuary are linchpins for the river’s entire salmon system.

The undammed 350-mile long Skeena hosts strong runs of steelhead and five species of Pacific salmon, with some of the largest chinook and steelhead ever recorded.

A coalition of First Nations leaders, local residents and federal and provincial politicians in northern B.C. are calling for the protection of Lelu Island and Flora Bank. The latter is under immense development pressure from a $12 billion gas export terminal being pushed by Malaysia’s state owned oil and gas conglomerate, Petronas. Canada’s environmental assessment agency is now reviewing the project, with public comment open until March 11.

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Tom Bie is the founder, editor, and publisher of The Drake. He started the magazine in 1998 as an annual newsprint publication based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He then moved it to Steamboat, Colorado (1999), Boulder, Colorado (2001), and San Clemente, California (2004), as he took jobs as managing editor at Paddler, Senior Editor at Skiing, and Editor-in-Chief at Powder, respectively. Tom and The Drake are now both based in Denver, Colorado, where The Drake is finally all grows up(Swingers, 1996) to a quarterly magazine.

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Tom Bie is the founder, editor, and publisher of The Drake. He started the magazine in 1998 as an annual newsprint publication based in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He then moved it to Steamboat, Colorado (1999), Boulder, Colorado (2001), and San Clemente, California (2004), as he took jobs as managing editor at Paddler, Senior Editor at Skiing, and Editor-in-Chief at Powder, respectively. Tom and The Drake are now both based in Denver, Colorado, where The Drake is finally all grows up(Swingers, 1996) to a quarterly magazine.

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