Our newsletter: 10 April 2025
Our first newsletter under our new name. . . .
The name-change reflects how First Nations are involved in the natural-gas value chain – from the upstream, to the midstream, and downstream.
- It’s First Nations territory from where the gas is extracted in Treaty 8 territory and other places in Canada;
- It’s First Nations territory across which gas is transported via pipeline;
- Then comes LNG, and it’s First Nations territory where LNG terminals are located;
- And it is First Nations waters through which carriers take LNG to market.
Learn about our new name and broader mission: https://ow.ly/LSNy50VvVh0
Cedar LNG OKs pipeline construction
The Haisla Nation’s Cedar LNG project has selected Ledcor Haisla Limited Partnership to carry out its pipeline construction.
Ledcor Haisla is a joint venture that for 10 years has executed projects while providing employment, training, and development opportunities to Haisla members and the local community.
Planning for construction of the pipeline is under way, including hiring, safety orientation and site preparation, with construction anticipated to commence in the second quarter of this year.
The Cedar LNG plant will get its natural gas from the Cedar Link pipeline, connected to the main Coastal GasLink pipeline. The connector will start inside the LNG Canada site, along with a meter station to measure the flow to Cedar.
The needed extra flow of gas through the Coastal GasLink line will be assured by construction of Coastal GasLink’s Mount Bracey Compressor Station, 150 kilometres northeast of Prince George.
- Read more: https://ow.ly/Rnfm50Vvg2L
- About Cedar Link: https://ow.ly/lVIG50VvhSP
Ottawa supports doubling LNG Canada
Federal natural resources minister Jonathan Wilkinson tossed this news into the election campaign: Canada’s government supports doubling the scale of LNG Canada — and sees it as “likely” as the country pushes to diversify exports away from the US.
LNG Canada will soon start exporting LNG to Asian buyers. Its plant (now in final testing stages) can produce up to 14 million tonnes of LNG a year. It is looking into Phase 2 expansion, which would double capacity to 28 million tonnes a year.
Wilkinson said it’s important in Canada’s efforts to diversify trade and the LNG Canada partners say Phase 2 “remains a key part of LNG Canada’s growth and competitiveness picture” and is under active consideration.
Wilkinson said it’s also important to fit Phase 2 within the federal government’s “climate architecture.” And LNG Canada says it will maintain its “world-best” intensity of greenhouse gases.
- Read more: https://ow.ly/Rnfm50Vvg2L
BC eases ‘Net zero by 2030’ rule for LNG
BC Energy Minister Adrian Dix has announced “clarification” of the provincial government’s requirement that any new LNG project must have a “credible plan” to achieve net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases by 2030.
Under his latest announcement, “net-zero by 2030” now is “net-zero ready by 2030,” meaning the developers must have such a plan “unless it is not reasonably possible . . . for the project to be served by grid electricity by 2030.”
There have long been questions about BC Hydro’s ability to deliver new power to the Haisla Nation’s Cedar LNG project, the Nisga’a Nation’s Ksi Lisims LNG project, and the potential expansion of LNG Canada’s plant.
All aim to be net-zero, but If they can’t get enough power from BC Hydro, they would have to produce some of their electricity by burning natural gas.
- The minister’s announcement: https://ow.ly/mk0150VuEAr
Alliance supports Global Energy Show
Will you join us (and people from over 100 countries) at Canada’s national energy event, the Global Energy Show Canada, June 10–12 at Calgary?
The Alliance is proud to partner with the Global Energy Show Canada. We hope to see you there.
- Read this story: https://ow.ly/S6Cn50VmYwK
- Watch this video: https://ow.ly/M4oE50VmMJN
- And register here: https://ow.ly/OKHw50VmMGR
ALSO IN THE NEWS
- Where do the federal parties stand on energy? Voters will choose between three very different future visions: https://ow.ly/GwaA50VuPh0
- Energy development is not a partisan issue — it is a national imperative. https://ow.ly/PcTT50VuB2P
- Chris Cooper moves into role of LNG Canada president and CEO: https://ow.ly/vFg650Vu9Ki
- LNG Canada starts the cooling process for its Kitimat plant, and next will introduce natural gas: https://ow.ly/ORKg50Vxoki
- Canada has the capacity to develop natural resources to the benefit of Canadian and Indigenous communities here at home, and for buyers worldwide: https://ow.ly/pLbV50Vuzi3
- Our First Nations Natural Gas Alliance and the Global Gas Centre have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen collaboration in the natural-gas and LNG sector: https://ow.ly/f6rS50VvYyU
EVENTS
- First Nations Major Projects Coalition, 8th annual conference, April 27–29, Toronto: https://ow.ly/R27450UV5Lr
- Canada Powered by Women, inaugural summit, April 29, Toronto: https://ow.ly/llqS50V8mQP
- Canada Powered by Women, signature event, May 6, Vancouver: https://ow.ly/5p1p50Vp4BF
- National Aboriginal Capital Corporations Association, Indigenous Prosperity Forum, May 7-8, Gatineau PQ. https://ow.ly/Ib2K50UyQ70
- Canada Powered by Women, signature event, May 9, Calgary: https://ow.ly/n0Bl50Vp4nz
- Clean Energy Association of BC, Generate 2025, May 12-13, Vancouver: https://ow.ly/ma1R50UUlgh
- First Nations Power Authority, ninth annual Indigenous Clean Energy Forum, June 4-5, Calgary: https://ow.ly/EtUy50V8mmW
- Canadian Council for Indigenous Business, Central Business Forum and Indigenous Women in Leadership awards dinner, June 5, Toronto: https://ow.ly/F36h50VtW2X
- Global Energy Show Canada, June 10-12, Calgary: https://ow.ly/f6lS50Uk1zW
- Arctic Development Expo, June 17-19, Inuvik: https://ow.ly/A1Hj50Vqoql
- 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 29 April 2025. Apologies for the delay.)
