The Globe and Mail reports in its Wednesday edition that Coastal First Nations are taking the B.C. government to court in an effort to overturn an agreement giving Ottawa decision-making authority over Enbridge's proposed Northern Gateway pipeline. The Globe's Mark Hume writes that it is the 19th legal challenge that has been filed against the project since the federal government gave conditional approval to the pipeline last year. Great Bear Initiative Society executive director Art Sterritt says, "This is our Happy New Year to the province." Great Bear represents eight aboriginal groups on the north and central coast. He says his organization launched the legal challenge because all of the other cases, which have been filed by several first nations and environmental groups, deal with alleged flaws in the federal process, not with the province's decision to hand over the environmental review to Ottawa. He says: "B.C. had the power under their own Environmental Assessment Act to make a decision as to whether or not they would accept the recommendations [of the federal joint review panel] and they didn't do that. ... We don't think they met their legal obligation on this."