First Nations are furious, environmentalists feel betrayed, oil companies are demanding more, and the clock is ticking.

The Mail’s events business in the Middle East provides a quarter of its revenue. A previous Telegraph bid was rejected over petrostate influence fears.

‘I’ve never seen anything like this,” longtime denier Marc Morano said recently of Democrats, billionaires, activists and reporters going ‘silent’ on the issue.

In exclusive interview with DeSmog, Haisla leader explains that an oil “spill on our waterway would be catastrophic.”