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Tyee Poll: One Year After Kitimat Vote, Is Northern Gateway Dead?

On April 12, 2014, the municipal district of Kitimat, B.C. held a high-stakes yet non-binding plebiscite. The ask? Do you support Enbridge's Northern Gateway pipeline project.

Residents of the nothern town voted "no" by a comfortable margin, yet the megaproject went on to gain conditional approval from the feds one month later. One year later, Dogwood Initiative's energy and democracy director Kai Nagata argues there's a few more political headwinds standing in Northern Gateway's path: First Nations' legal challenges, an upcoming federal election, and the resolute people of British Columbia.

To make sense of the last 12 months in pipeline politics, we turn to you, Tyee reader.