Our newsletter: 27 February 2025
First Nations critical to LNG
Alliance CEO Karen Ogen, speaking to the Canadian Global Affairs Institute’s conference on the global role of LNG, in Ottawa:
“First Nations are critical to LNG in Canada.”
“It’s First Nations territory from where the gas is extracted in Treaty 8 territory, it’s First Nations territory across which gas is transported via pipeline, it is First Nations territory where LNG terminals are located, and it is First Nations waters through which carriers take LNG to market.”
“This is why we say Canadian LNG is Indigenous LNG.”
“In the case of Canada’s fledgling LNG industry, we broke a pattern that had existed for over a century. First Nations have been at the heart of the LNG opportunity – not on the sidelines like before – but on the job sites and in the boardrooms – helping to make it happen.”
“And we are going to make history.”
- Read more here: https://ow.ly/kIsZ50V4Wph
Award ‘honours all Indigenous Peoples’
Crystal Smith, elected chief councillor of the Haisla Nation in BC, and chair of our Alliance, was named Canadian Energy Person of 2024 by the Energy Council of Canada.
in her acceptance speech she said: “By bestowing this great honour on me, you are recognizing each and every Indigenous person in this country who is fighting for a share and a say, fighting for a better future for their families, and future generations. . . .
“In doing so, you are elevating the role of every Indigenous person in this country to achieve the greatness we all have hope in achieving.”
And she added: “First Nations have the tremendous opportunity right now to work with the energy sector and other industries to advance the infrastructure we as a country need to fight for a stronger economy AND a better climate.
“With Indigenous values leading the development of our energy sector, we have the power to produce the energy the world needs in a manner that meets our national standards and raises the bar for others.”
- Read more: https://ow.ly/QRTV50V212e
The Public Policy Forum will honour Chief Crystal in April, noting that she is a guiding force behind Cedar LNG, the world’s first Indigenous majority-owned LNG project.
Alaska LNG project pushed, but questioned
U.S. President Donald Trump is pushing for development of a major natural-gas pipeline in Alaska, and an LNG-for-export plant at the southern end of it. If built, the project would compete with BC LNG for Asian buyers.
Interest in LNG from Alaska has been expressed by Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and the Philippines, all of whom have previously spoken of getting LNG from BC.
Now potential Asian interest in Alaska LNG has been underlined by Trump’s recent meeting with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba of Japan, after which Trump said this:
“Japan will soon begin importing historic new shipments of clean American liquefied natural gas in record numbers. . . . We’re talking about a joint venture of some type between Japan and us having to do with Alaska oil and gas, and that’s very exciting. They’re very excited about it. So are we.”
While Trump used the word “soon,” the Anchorage Daily News in Alaska reported: “But plans for the $44 billion Alaska LNG project don’t call for exports of gas until 2031. And that’s if the project can be built at all.”
Trump calls the project a national priority, but talk of an Alaska LNG project is so far just that: talk.
- Read more: https:// ow.ly/HIKp50V5yXv
ALSO IN THE NEWS
- How LNG Canada will protect marine waters, and marine wildlife, as tug-escorted LNG carriers move to and from the LNG Canada terminal. Watch this video: https://ow.ly/c6e450V4Vbz
- Energy for a Secure Future Canada calls for policy reforms to ensure Indigenous communities have access to the most practical, cost-effective, and reliable energy sources: https://ow.ly/C8VJ50V6XiF
- The Haisla Nation’s Cedar LNG project has been named an award winner by Project Finance International: https://ow.ly/YkW250V4xfZ
- Canada ‘needs to act with urgency’ to export LNG, and ‘Canada’s energy future needs to be built in true partnership with Indigenous’ https://ow.ly/3SK150V2IpG
- ‘The federal government must commit to a national natural gas and LNG strategy . . . needed to compete globally.’ — Petronas Canada CEO Mark Fitzgerald: https://ow.ly/qteK50V4uThT
- CEO François Poirier of TC Energy is ‘very bullish’ on LNG exports and Phase Two expansion of the Coastal GasLink pipeline in BC: https://ow.ly/vbB650V2Lfu
EVENTS
- Assembly of First Nations, National Natural Resources Forum: March 12 – 13, Vancouver: https://ow.ly/76Aa50Uw5PX Alliance CEO Karen Ogen is a speaker on March 13.
- Canadian Gas Association Energy Security Summit, March 25-26, Ottawa: https://ow.ly/ozwT50TYNRA
- Canadian Council for Indigenous Business, East Coast business forum, April 8, Halifax: https://ow.ly/xLuN50V5jiv
- Nation2Nation Women’s Gathering, April 24-25, Kitimat: https://ow.ly/A8yo50SYpkv
- First Nations Major Projects Coalition, 8th annual conference, April 27–29, Toronto: https://ow.ly/R27450UV5Lr
- National Aboriginal Capital Corporations Association, Indigenous Prosperity Forum, May 7-8, Gatineau PQ. https://ow.ly/Ib2K50UyQ70
- Clean Energy Association of BC, Generate 2025, May 12-13, Vancouver: https://ow.ly/ma1R50UUlgh
- Global Energy Show Canada, June 10-12, Calgary: https://ow.ly/f6lS50Uk1zW
- Ninth Indigenous Resource Opportunities Conference, June 18-20, Nanaimo: https://ow.ly/tZl650USCI8
- Ninth annual Nation2Nation forum, Oct. 21-23, Terrace BC: https://ow.ly/EZNl50V0s9f
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Posted here 02 March 2025
