Enbridge wants to build a $5.5-billion pipeline to carry an estimated 525,000 barrels of crude oil a day from Alberta to Kitimat, B.C., where it could then be shipped by ocean tankers to ports around the world.
But First Nations, environmental groups and communities across northern B.C. have lined up in opposition and now some are trying to spread the message to other parts of the country.
"We want to make sure that fellow Canadians in the rest of the country really understand, beyond all of the talking heads on the political shows, what the people who are actually from the region think about it, what are they saying, what their contribution to the national conversation is," said Josh Paterson, a staff lawyer at West Coast Environmental Law.