Nisga’a Nation leader touts reconciliation after Ksi Lisims LNG project gains government approvals

B.C. Premier David Eby, left, shakes hands with Nisga'a Nation President Eva Clayton, centre, in Vancouver on Tuesday.

The leader of the Nisga’a Nation in northwest British Columbia is touting economic reconciliation after a liquefied natural gas project on the Indigenous group’s territory gained approvals from the B.C. and federal governments.

The Nisga’a, U.S.-based Western LNG and a group of natural gas producers named Rockies LNG are partners in the Ksi Lisims LNG project near Gitlaxt’aamiks, which is home to the elected Nisga’a Lisims government.

“This is what reconciliation looks like: A modern treaty Nation once on the sidelines of our economy, now leading a project that will help write the next chapter of a stronger, more resilient Canada,” Eva Clayton, elected president of