The Globe and Mail reports in its Thursday edition that a group of first nations leaders is warning pipeline executives that their companies would take on onerous financial and legal risks by backing a proposed pipeline to their traditional territories on the B.C. North Coast. The Globe's Jeffrey Jones writes that leaders of the Haida, Kitasoo Xai'xais, Gitga'at and Heiltsuk nations met with senior officials of Pembina Pipeline and Trans Mountain Corp. in Calgary on Wednesday to emphasize and explain their staunch opposition to a pipeline terminal in that region. They are also against any move by Ottawa to lift or allow exemptions to a federal ban on tankers loading oil there, which would be necessary for making such a project viable. A memorandum of understanding signed last year between Ottawa and Alberta aims to increase capacity to export crude off the Pacific coast. A terminal at the Port of Prince Rupert is being studied among other options as an end point for a one-million-barrel-a-day line from Alberta. B.C. is backing industry efforts to get more Albertan oil moving across the south of the province, through an expansion project that will increase the capacity of the Trans Mountain system by about 34 per cent.