Newsletter: World wants Indigenous LNG, Haisla share and a say, and more . . . .

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Our newsletter, 06 November 2025

Concept: Ksi Lisims LNG plant

The world wants Indigenous LNG

Our Alliance view: The world wants Indigenous LNG – and BC First Nations hold the key.

It’s time to move past outdated debate and show that Indigenous-led projects can drive both economic growth and meet environmental goals while growing Asian export markets.

The idea that LNG is a battle between the environment and the economy, or Indigenous opposition and corporate interests, no longer holds true.

With a goal to be net-zero ready by 2030, Ksi Lisims LNG (graphic above) is on track to becoming one of the lowest-emission LNG facilities in the world.

Located on Nisga’a owned lands, the LNG facility will be powered by renewable hydroelectricity and will receive natural gas from Treaty 8 territory via the PRGT pipeline.

First Nations are critical to the natural-gas supply chain.  From the upstream, to the midstream, to tidewater, the project touches dozens of First Nations territories and will involve thousands of people.

The First Nations Natural Gas Alliance contends that LNG exported from the west coast is different than LNG from the Gulf Coast or LNG from Qatar and other places in the world.  Why?  Because it’s ‘Indigenous LNG’.

Photo: Crystal Smith

LNG and the Haisla Nation: a share and a say

Crystal Smith, former elected chief councillor of the Haisla Nation in BC, former chair of our Alliance (and now Strategic Advisor on External Relations for the Alliance) joined CEO Stewart Muir of Resource Works for an interview in his Power Struggle series. She talks about what led her nation to support LNG Canada — and to plan its own LNG-for-export project, Cedar LNG.

Underlying the Haisla approval of LNG development, Smith says, was a collective desire to have economic opportunity, and “a share and a say” in any development.

“It was to have a share and a say in in terms of what our beautiful territory has to offer in in terms of economic development. We’re very fortunate geographically to be located at the end of the Douglas Channel, which is a deep seaport that does not freeze, so there’s a lot of opportunity. . . .

“Our community wasn’t new to industrial development. We’ve had an aluminum smelter, which still operates today. We’ve had a pulp-and-paper mill and a methanol facility.”

But . . . “We didn’t have any participation when those industries came to our territory.”

Her Nation looked at three or four LNG proposals. “We actually took a weekend where we tried to compare apples to apples with all of these projects and tried to develop a strategy as to how we were going to be able to juggle all of these. . . .

“And at the end of the weekend, LNG Canada came out as the primary focus.”

Photo: Nlaka’pamux Nation solar team

First Nations and clean energy

ALSO IN THE NEWS 

  • The Nisga’a Nation’s Ksi Lisims LNG project: ‘The lowest-emission LNG in the world. And one of the most significant Indigenous-supported projects in Canadian history.’ And more: https://ow.ly/NSBU50XkGau
  • The Haisla Nation’s Cedar LNG project seeks to increase liquefaction capacity from 400 to 500 million cubic feet per day and to house up to 80 workers at the facility. The BC Environmental Assessment Office seeks feedback on the changes: https://ow.ly/cMgT50XluhA
  • Pembina Pipeline will supply to Malaysia’s PETRONAS 1.0 million tonnes of LNG a year, for 20 years, from the Haisla Nation Cedar LNG project: https://ow.ly/SmsT50Xn6k1
  • Shell confirms that LNG Canada expects to start up its second LNG processing unit (Train 2) later this quarter: https://ow.ly/xSg650XkgFR
  • Crystal Smith, former elected chief councillor of the Haisla Nation, and chair of our Alliance, joins CEO Stewart Muir of Resource Works for an interview in his Power Struggle She talks about what led her nation to support LNG Canada — and to plan its own LNG-for-export project, Cedar LNG: Video: https://ow.ly/BzVv50XkmH7 Audio and full transcript: https://ow.ly/8Qim50Xf7JY
  • Canada’s 2030 emissions-reduction plan is flawed, and puts in danger ‘Canada’s golden opportunity for natural-gas production and LNG e’ — Margareta Dovgal of Resource_Works, to a House of Commons committee. Video: https://ow.ly/macH50XkGy6
  • BC Premier David Eby says he’ll call an early election if his northern power line bill fails. The North Coast Transmission Line would serve LNG and other resource projects. https://ow.ly/CK1n50XkjQ6

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(Posted here 09 November 2025)

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