How do you get started as an Indigenous entrepreneur? How do you fund and start your own business? Our online Outreach session on 26 January 2022 looked into this, with some First Nations experts: Mark Dokis of the National Aboriginal Capital Corporations Association Sammy Zoerb, business development manager, Indigenous Young Entrepreneurs at Futurpreneur Canada Jennifer …
Thumbs up for Coastal GasLink The raised thumbs were those of Facebook emoticons, used by readers of our two latest blogs, to express their support for the Coastal GasLink pipeline. And to express their confidence in a successful crossing, in a micro-tunnel 11 metres under the riverbed, of the Morice River in BC (as illustrated …
Are you a member of one of the 20 First Nations along the Coastal GasLink pipeline route? You could win an iPad by filling in our questionnaire at http://ow.ly/nnvP50HxYf0. The deadline is March 10. The questionnaire is from our Diversity & Inclusion Outreach team. If you have questions, email them at outreach@fnlngalliance.com (Posted here 19 …
Our last blog, with the headline ‘How pipelines go safely under rivers’ has been seen and read by more than 12,600 people on Facebook. Not always correctly read, though: The first paragraph explicitly spoke of Coastal GasLink’s “natural-gas pipeline” — but a surprising number of readers took it to be an oil pipeline, and protested …
Included in the protests and blockades of the Coastal GasLink pipeline is the proposition that drilling a tunnel for the pipe beneath the Morice River and its side-channels will endanger salmon runs. The Morice River (Wedzin Kwa to the Wet’suwet’en people) is indeed a salmon river. It supports chinook, pink, coho and sockeye salmon, and …
