The Globe and Mail reports in its Monday edition that Rueben George of B.C.'s Tsleil-Waututh First Nation celebrated with the aboriginal protesters at the Standing Rock Sioux reservation last week when the Obama administration delayed Kinder Morgan's proposed expansion on the TransMountain pipeline. The Globe's Shawn McCarthy writes that Mr. George is manager of the band's Sacred Trust, which was formed to oppose TransMountian. In Canada as well as in the United States, first nations are asserting the right to approve or reject pipeline projects. In Canada as well as in the U.S., governments are struggling to recognize the United Nations principle of free, prior and informed consent without handing every first nation that could be impacted by a resource project a veto of its fate. In projects such as Enbridge's Northern Gateway, Kinder Morgan's TransMountain and TransCanada's Energy East, industry proponents claim support from some aboriginal communities and question the right of a few opponents to block the interest of those who support it. Some communities, however, have more at stake than others, notes Mr. McCarthy.