The Globe and Mail reports in its Saturday edition that a group of first nations with territory covering a quarter of the route for Enbridge's proposed Northern Gateway pipeline met with federal representatives Friday to officially reject the project. A Canadian Press dispatch to The Globe reports that officials with the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, the National Energy Board, and Fisheries and Oceans Canada met with the four clans of the Yinka Dene in Fort St. James, and listened as dozens of elders and hereditary and elected chiefs said "No." Nak'azdli hereditary chief Peter Erickson told the six federal government bureaucrats: "We do not, we will not, allow this pipeline. ... We're going to send the message today to the federal government and to the company itself: Their pipeline is dead. Under no circumstances will that proposal be allowed. Their pipeline is now a pipe dream." The bands said the project is now banned from Yinka Dene territories, under their traditional laws. They said the decision by the four clans marks the end of negotiations. Enbridge has signed several benefits agreements with first nations, though few admit publicly to the deals.