B.C. Premier David Eby stood with members of numerous First Nations from B.C.’s northern coast on Wednesday to support and sign a declaration that asks Ottawa to continue a moratorium on oil tankers in the province’s northern waters.

The North Coast Protection Declaration is the latest advocacy by B.C. to urge the federal government to protect the environment and the autonomy of First Nations, as Alberta Premier Danielle Smith pushes for a new private-sector pipeline that would send crude oil to the northern B.C. coast for export to Asia.

The declaration says any spill of crude oil in the area would destroy billions of dollars in economic activity along the coast, and result in "generations of lost livelihoods and irreversible ecological damage."

Lifting the ban "makes absolutely no sen

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