That may be true. But local and international advocates made it very difficult for this project to proceed. They have been working through every available channel \u2013 scientific research<\/a>, environmental reviews<\/a>, legal challenges<\/a>, even civil disobedience<\/a> \u2013 to make one simple point: this is the worst possible location for a massive industrial development. The eelgrass bed at Flora Bank is perhaps the most important place in the Skeena for juvenile salmon, a crucial stopover used by populations from all over the Skeena on their way out to sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Today, those advocates and all their hard work have been vindicated. There\u2019ll be no industrial development on Lelu Island and Flora Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n \u201cThe project was flawed from the beginning due to the lack of upfront consultations with affected Indigenous communities and by selecting the worst possible location for a project of this magnitude.\u201d says Greg Knox, executive director of SkeenaWild.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He continued: \u201cThis fight has done one good thing \u2013 it has united far flung groups in the watershed and across the Pacific around the goal of protecting salmon. Without salmon, we lose the foundation of our ecological health, our local culture and our economy. We thank the Wild Salmon Center and The Stronghold Fund for standing with us in this important struggle.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Through the Skeena Stronghold Partnership, Wild Salmon Center has stepped up our support for SkeenaWild and local First Nations over the last three years, providing technical, communications, and financial assistance for the Skeena estuary campaign. Our goal was to ensure that one of the Pacific\u2019s great wild salmon and steelhead systems remained intact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/wildsalmoncenter.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Skeena-FirstNation-LNG-court-470x226.jpg\")