Our newsletter: 03 July 2025
Gaslog Glasgow, accompanied by Haisea Marine tugs
First export cargo sails from LNG Canada
The LNG carrier GasLog Glasgow is headed for Inchon, South Korea, carrying the first export of liquefied natural gas from LNG Canada.
Korea Gas Corporation (KOGAS) has an LNG import terminal at Inchon. KOGAS is a 5% partner in LNG Canada.
A ship-tracking service, VesselFinder, said the cargo is expected to arrive at Inchon on July 20.
LNG Canada hailed the loading with a news release headlined “First Cargo Puts Canada on the Map of LNG Exporting Nations.”
Chris Cooper, LNG Canada president and CEO: “Today is a historic moment for LNG Canada and our five joint-venture participants.
“We began with a clear vision: To work side by side with First Nations and local communities as the catalyst for a thriving new energy sector in Canada, and to set a new standard for safe and responsible LNG production.
“As world events continue to demonstrate, a reliable supply of responsibly produced energy should never be taken for granted. We’re proud to be part of the effort to help Canada diversify its export markets and to deliver lower-carbon energy to the world, for many decades to come.”
Meanwhile, ship trackers say two empty LNG carriers are headed to LNG Canada: The Puteri Sejinjang is due on Sunday July 6, and the DiamondG_Metropolis is due July 12.
Cedar LNG project
Push for LNG and clean-energy projects
Indigenous leaders in northwest BC are urging governments to act swiftly on policy reforms that could unlock more than $60 billion in clean-energy and infrastructure projects led or partnered by First Nations.
The First Nations Climate Initiative (FNCI) is pressing for changes to federal and provincial policies to enable these projects, which range from LNG and hydrogen to transmission lines and nature-based carbon offset systems.
Meanwhile, chiefs from across the country expressed “substantive concern” over the federal government’s Bill C-5 to speed up resource projects.
- Read more: https://ow.ly/g9lZ50Wi2XY
And some Indigenous groups argued that efforts to streamline the approval processes for infrastructure and energy projects could mean “less need and opportunity for Indigenous consultation or engagement.”
But federal Energy Minister Tim Hodgson says he wants Indigenous groups to pursue large ownership stakes in energy and infrastructure projects. “Economic reconciliation must be front and centre.”
- More info: https://t.co/sblwH9JCjv
And Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Rebecca Alty says Ottawa is looking to push resource projects ‘that have Indigenous support and even better would be Indigenous equity.’
- Video: https://ow.ly/vjH450Wi0kj
Luke Schauerte
Canadian LNG is Indigenous LNG
Our Alliance has long argued that “Canadian LNG is Indigenous LNG.”
As Alliance CEO Karen Ogen said in a key speech in 2024: “We will play our part as an advocate for responsible energy development. We are closing the Indigenous Energy Gap. Canadian LNG is Indigenous LNG, and that is good for the world and good for all of us here.”
Now Luke Schauerte, CEO of Woodfibre LNG, speaking at the 2025 BC Indigenous Resource Opportunities Conference in Nanaimo, underlined the thesis:
“Make no mistake that the world wants Canadian LNG. And make no mistake that Canadian LNG is Indigenous LNG. . . .
“I’m proud to be able to demonstrate that Indigenous resource opportunities are real, tangible and can shape the future, both for Nations that have been left out of these opportunities in their own territories for too long, and for industry, by providing a clear way to do business on your traditional, unceded lands, on your terms, in true partnership and with a shared vision for prosperity.”
- More here: https://t.co/dyIhywSyDS
Canada’s centennial flame, Ottawa
Anti-greenwashing law red-tape nightmare
Ottawa now has issued some final (their word) new “guidelines” to the federal government’s anti-greenwashing law.
The legislation is supposed to require that environmental claims must be truthful, and not false or misleading. But to us the law remains a confusing mess.
“The uncertain wording tends to remind us of Humpty Dumpty: ‘When I use a word, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’”
- Our blog: https://ow.ly/iCZ650WgKut
First Nations and clean energy
- Indigenous-led project secures funding for Yukon’s largest solar farm: https://ow.ly/RNaL50Wi2UI
- First Nation and European company to build a solar farm at Saint John NB: https://ow.ly/mEMz50Wi2V7
- Indigenous-led Oneida Energy Storage project in Ontario goes online: https://ow.ly/Ch7r50Wi307
- Majority-Indigenous-owned clean-tech company develops hydrogen-on-demand pellets: https://ow.ly/lhNG50Wh4TV
- How Great Bear Carbon in BC brings Indigenous governance and stewardship to the carbon-offset market: https://ow.ly/UXFL50Wi32H
- New research spotlights Indigenous perspectives on energy and climate issues: https://ow.ly/nr7x50Wi31r
ALSO IN THE NEWS
- The Haisla Nation’s Cedar LNG project marks one year since the Final Investment Decision. ‘Since then, our project has made tremendous progress.’ https://ow.ly/Zwhm50WgnTF
- Woodfibre LNG proposes a second floating work camp: https://ow.ly/vEY350WhZhi
- BC Energy Regulator names Joe Bevan, former chief councillor of the Kitselas Nation and a director of the First Nations Major Projects Coalition, as a director: https://ow.ly/7IoU50WhZzl
- ‘Build, baby, build!’ requires Indigenous participation: https://ow.ly/WPn750Wi2iY From the Fraser Institute
- Seaspan steps up to refuel ships in BC with LNG: https://ow.ly/sFvx50Wg1Py
EVENTS
- RBN Energy’s School of Energy Canada, Aug. 26-27, Calgary: https://ow.ly/ebPW50Vy9LO
- Assembly of First Nations, annual general assembly, Sept. 3-5, Winnipeg: https://ow.ly/nhVK50WbQXY
- National Coalition of Chiefs, Energy and Natural Resource Summit, Sept. 18-19, Calgary: https://ow.ly/kt8a50Wl6fM
- Greater Vancouver Board of Trade’s annual Indigenous Opportunities Forum, Oct. 2, Vancouver: https://ow.ly/WTWt50WaVJ5
- Ninth annual Nation2Nation forum, Oct. 21-23, Kitimat BC: https://ow.ly/LvkJ50VYq07
- Spark Indigenous Energy Summit, Nov. 5-6, Calgary: https://ow.ly/2B5E50Wgj11
- Indigenous Partnerships Success Showcase, Nov. 13, Vancouver: https://ow.ly/l3O650Wj25v
2026
- The BC Natural Resources Forum, Jan. 20-22, Prince George: https://ow.ly/71Y250Wj0zL
- Canadian Gas Association, CGA Energy Security Summit, March 10-11, Ottawa: https://ow.ly/6FLp50VQu0N
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