The Globe and Mail reports in its Friday edition a B.C. native band will launch a court challenge Friday of the Conservative government's decision to approve the Northern Gateway pipeline project, the first in what is expected to be a flood of lawsuits ahead of Monday's deadline. The Globe's Sunny Dhillon writes the Gitxaala Nation, through whose traditional territory oil tankers would pass, will ask the Federal Court to consider how the $7.9-billion project would infringe on its rights, including aboriginal title. The band will also contend there was inadequate consultation before the project was approved. The court challenge comes in the wake of a landmark Supreme Court of Canada ruling that recognized the existence of aboriginal title, and as many first nations gear up to assert their rights to oppose resource development on their lands without their consent. "Canada had a duty to consult and they didn't," acting chief Clarence Innis told The Globe on Thursday. The first nation is located on B.C.'s northwest coast and Mr. Innis said 80 per cent of the group's food comes from the water through which oil tankers would travel. A spill "would have a long-term effect, and negative impact, to our community."