Skeena Headwaters and Methane Exploration in S.E. British Columbia moving forward??

B.C. government awards tenure to BP Canada for coalbed methane project (SE B.C.)!!!!

http://royaldutchshellplc.com/2008/12/06/bc-government-awards-tenure-to-bp-canada-for-coalbed-methane-project/

I see lots of protests and ‘sacred waters’ comments…spirituality and Native Americans aside, I don’t see direct comments from B.C. Government decision makers to these site organizers on most of the sites. Yes, yes the headwaters are important and ‘sacred’ but this decision in December 2008 to allow further exploration in SE B.C. is a critical warning sign for the Skeena’s future further North. City council’s seem powerless. The old ‘state’s rights’ concept or local power having a say is apparently as dead in B.C. as it is in the U.S. Everyone wants the Nanny State ’til Nanny says screw you!