The Globe and Mail reports in its Tuesday edition that the B.C. government needs to conduct a new environmental assessment for a pipeline project that would transport natural gas across the province, climate activists say in court affidavits. The Globe's Brent Jang writes that the proposal to pipe natural gas to the West Coast from fracking operations in northeast B.C. dates to 2014. The Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) project is co-owned 50:50 by the Nisga'a Nation and Houston-based Western LNG. They acquired the pipeline project from TC Energy last year. The PRGT route was originally intended to extend nearly 900 kilometres from northeast B.C. to Lelu Island near Prince Rupert, and supply natural gas to Pacific NorthWest LNG. Malaysia's state-owned Petronas cancelled the Pacific NorthWest joint venture in 2017. Under revised plans, the $12-billion PRGT pipeline would feed the $10-billion Ksi Lisims LNG project, which would produce liquefied natural gas for export to Asia. Climate activists argue that a new environmental assessment is required to take the cumulative impacts of the entire pipeline project into account, arguing that substantial changes to the project render the 2014 approval out of date.