The National Post reports in its Tuesday edition that the Carney government has approved its first LNG pipeline, the $4-billion Sunrise Expansion Program, which expands a natural gas pipeline from Chetwynd, B.C., to the U.S. border. The Post's Tristin Hopper writes that this marks Ottawa's first step in expanding Canada's oil and gas pipeline network. First nations have warned oil companies of potential consequences regarding a proposed bitumen pipeline. The Enbridge project has been approved, but a group of first nations in British Columbia is warning Canadian oil companies to avoid a more lucrative federal bitumen pipeline proposal to the Pacific. Six first nations governments, representing about 8,500 total members, drafted a letter explicitly warning oil and gas companies to "steer clear" of any plan to build a pipeline to the Northwest Coast, and threatening "significant risk" if any were attempted. Haida, Kitasoo Xai'xais, Gitga'at and Heiltsuk Nations are advising pipeline companies of risk of backing a Northwest Coast crude oil pipeline and tankers project. A press release issued by the Council of the Haida Nation urges chief executive officers to "steer clear" from the project.