Our newsletter, 27 August 2026
Green lights awaited on two LNG projects
Canada and BC are awaiting vital go-ahead decisions on two LNG -export projects: expansion of LNG Canada at Kitimat and the proposed Ksi Lisims LNG project with the Nisga’a Nation in northern BC.
For LNG Canada, the partners say the green light for Phase 2 expansion of the current plant could come by the end of the year. It would increase the output to 28 million tonnes a year (MTPA) from 14 million. Currently, the world’s largest LNG plant is Sabine Pass, Louisiana, at 30 million tonnes a year.
CEO Wael Sawan of Shell, a 40% partner in LNG Canada, gives this outlook for the Final Investment Decision (FID): “It’s likely to be before the end of this year, is what we are targeting along with the joint venture partners.”
A recent signal that the FID is approaching: Taekwang, a Korean pipe-fitting specialist, signed in mid-August a US$6.27-million contract with Japan’s JGC to provide industrial fittings for LNG Canada Phase 2. Taekwang also supplied the first phase of LNG Canada.
And a signal of a coming FID for Ksi Lisims LNG was given when the PRGT pipeline on August 10 named BC-based Surerus Pipeline Inc. as a joint-venture contractor to build the 750-km line to feed natural gas to Ksi Lisims.
- More in our blog at https://bit.ly/3SvREnY
Picture above: Concept of Ksi Lisims LNG plant
And two more LNG projects hit the news
Wapusk LNG proposes to produce LNG in Saskatchewan and ship it by rail to an export terminal near Port Nelson MB, on Hudson Bay. Wapusk aims to have up to 90% First Nation ownership.
And Indigenous-led Kino Aski LNG project proposes to send Canadian LNG to Europe, from Quebec.
Wapusk LNG is advancing the NeeStaNan vision of a utility corridor to the western shores of Hudson Bay, including rail, roads, telecommunications, power lines, and port infrastructure on lands contributed and controlled by First Nations.
- More: https://bit.ly/4xSe4yP
- Video interview: https://bit.ly/3UzYauC
- More on NeeStaNan: https://neestanan.ca/
Led by the Atikamekw Nation in Quebec, Kino Aski LNG proposes to produce up to 15 million tonnes of LNG a year, powered by renewable energy, and to ship it to Europe from Quebec.
“This project is being developed on the traditional territories of First Nations in Québec and Ontario, under Indigenous ownership and leadership.”
- Learn more: https://bit.ly/3U9TwDx
Photo above: Potential site area for Wapusk LNG. Photo from John Woods, The Canadian Press
Indigenous Clean Energy
While our Alliance focuses on natural gas and LNG, especially when First Nations are involved, we also support, and keep an eye on, Indigenous clean energy:
- Documentary project highlights clean-energy projects in northern Indigenous communities in Canada: https://bit.ly/3SpQ332 (Photo above)
- Fort Nelson First Nation in BC has ‘one of the most advanced geothermal developments in Canada.’ https://bit.ly/45refVU
- Acho Dene Koe First Nation in NWT eyes using geothermal heat to warm houses and a greenhouse: https://bit.ly/4xitzjV
- Ontario puts up $200,000 for Nipissing First Nation solar project: https://bit.ly/4gD0Cb8
ALSO IN THE NEWS
- Manitoba’s premier says it will cost $70-$80 billion to expand the Port of Churchill and to include an LNG terminal. But studies say use of ice-hardened LNG carriers would require ‘significant dredging’ or an offshore loading facility: https://bit.ly/4x9WJkZ
- Canada’s natural gas offers us ‘a generational opportunity to help build the AI future.’ — Gwyn Morgan: https://bit.ly/3SnI9aC
- LNG Canada reports to the BC Energy Regulator on black smoke emissions from flaring of natural gas. The BCER states: ‘Air quality monitoring data in Kitimat continues to be within provincial guidelines for human health and the environment.’ https://bit.ly/4xgZ51M
- How BC is generating record natural-gas (and oil) production and exports. A new study by economist Philip Cross, released by Resource Works: https://bit.ly/4gr8vAk
- Indigenous consent is an objective, not a standard, for resource development: Heather Exner-Pirot of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute: https://bit.ly/4cFSNjH
EVENTS
- Sept. 14: Get it Done BC event from Resource Works, Vancouver: https://bit.ly/4g5BgEb Alliance CEO Karen Ogen is on a panel.
- Sept. 14: Nominations close for Business in Vancouver’s 2026 BC Export Awards: https://bit.ly/3S4MeA7
- Sept. 21-23. Energy Storage Canada conference, Toronto: https://bit.ly/4eCvDuZ
- Sept. 21-25, International Pipeline Conference and Expo, Calgary: https://ow.ly/NmxS50Y5Kag
- Sept. 22-23: Canadian Institute forum on Indigenous energy ownership and governance, Edmonton: https://bit.ly/3QXGKqs Our Karen Ogen co-chairs this event.
- Sept. 25: Greater Vancouver Board of Trade’s annual Indigenous Opportunities Forum,Vancouver: https://bit.ly/3SnEBof
- Sept. 28: Nominations close for Business in Vancouver’s 2026 Influential Women in Business Awards: https://bit.ly/4gp7WIu
- Sept 29: Fraser Institute Atlantic Dinner, Halifax: https://bit.ly/4gPDyI1
- Sept. 30: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (formerly known as Orange Shirt Day), a holiday in some regions: https://bit.ly/4q8ZlNg
- Oct. 5-8: Assembly of First Nations’ fourth National Climate Gathering, Hamilton ON: https://bit.ly/4i8w839
- Oct 6: Indigenous Trailblazers fundraising gala, Enoch AB: https://bit.ly/45zy4ug
- Oct. 15-16, ninth Annual First Nations Leading the Way Conference, Vancouver: https://bit.ly/4qegLrU
- Oct. 19-21, Electricity Transformation Canada conference, Toronto: https://bit.ly/4g1G51w
- Oct. 20-22: Tenth annual Nation2Nation Forum, Kitimat: https://bit.ly/4nvUogl
- Oct. 20-22: National Coalition of Chiefs’ energy and natural resource summit, Calgary: https://tinyurl.com/yzu3w84x
- Oct. 26-28: World Indigenous Business Forum, Winnipeg: https://bit.ly/4wYCir7
- Oct. 26-29: Canadian Gas Association, CGA Energy Week, Toronto: https://bit.ly/4vs7f5J
- Oct. 28-29: Vancouver International Security Summit: https://bit.ly/4hwy70V. Alliance CEO Karen Ogen is a speaker.
- Nov. 17-19: Marine Renewables Canada Conference, Ottawa: https://bit.ly/4ezd2Bj
2027 EVENTS
- Jan. 19-21, 24th annual BC Natural Resources Forum, Prince George: https://bit.ly/4vcSF25
- April 12-14, Canada Gas and LNG conference, Vancouver: https://bit.ly/4hIupkQ
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(Posted here 28 August 2026)
