Our Alliance chair, Chief Crystal Smith, and Alliance CEO Karen Ogen-Toews, were named by Business in Vancouver as among influential BC leaders in the natural gas sector. Also honoured: Bryan Cox, president and CEO of the Canadian LNG Alliance; Roger Dall’Antonia, president and CEO of Fortis BC; Susannah Pierce, who joined LNG Canada in 2013 …
A dramatic billboard went up last week at the Tsawwassen ferry terminal in which a group of BC doctors and nurses asked “How healthy is natural gas?” They provided their own one-sided answer to that question in a news release that announced: “Today, physicians and nurses are raising the alarm—and billboards—over the significant harms to …
There were scary headlines around the world this week as the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a new report. It said global temperatures are set to rise by 1.5 degrees Celsius over the next 20 years, and pinned much of the blame on burning coal, oil and natural gas as “the …
Ken Coates, University of Saskatchewan professor and Munk Senior Fellow in Aboriginal and Northern Canadian Issues at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, has long been a friend of the Alliance. Let us then, for our newest blog, reproduce his latest column for the Institute: What if money is not the answer for Indigenous communities? Coates writes: The …
The Alliance’s third outreach session on 29 July 2021 drew participants from BC and Alberta, and focused on local governments’ roles in economic reconciliation with First Nations. Here are condensed remarks from Mayor Dale Bumstead of Dawson Creek BC, himself a member of the Métis Nation, and Councillor Charlie Rensby of Burns Lake BC: Mayor …
