The Vancouver Sun reports in its Tuesday edition Janet Holder, the woman once regarded as the local figurehead for Enbridge's controversial Northern Gateway pipeline, died Monday following a long battle with leukemia. A Prince George Citizen item inside The Sun said Ms. Holder, who grew up in Prince George, returned to the city in 2011 when she was named Enbridge's vice-president for western access and headed the pipeline project. A year later, a new office was opened in Prince George as part of a plan to be closer to the communities the project would affect. Ms. Holder became the face of the project, speaking at luncheons, answering questions from the media and appearing in full-page ads promoting Northern Gateway. At the end of 2014, Ms. Holder retired saying she wanted to "take a step back and focus on my family and my personal health." Ms. Holder completed a degree in engineering at the University of New Brunswick and later a master of business administration at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont. Ms. Holder joined Enbridge in 1992 and was president of gas distribution from 2008 to 2011. In 2014, the federal government approved Northern Gateway subject to 209 conditions.