Law firm Torys LLP looks at Ottawa’s promises to accelerate federal approvals, with a new program to support Indigenous consultation: The reforms would facilitate the creation of Federal Economic Zones to cover (yet to be identified) areas like transportation corridors, telecommunications networks, energy production and transmission, and industrial regions. Under this proposal, Cabinet would have the …
Our newsletter 21 June 2026 Four for the show, four for the board Featured as panellists at the big Global Energy Show at Calgary (June 8-10) were CEO Karen Ogen (left) and Alliance vice-chair Valerie Askoty (centre) shown above with Pearl Morgan, Alliance executive assistant, at the Alliance booth Pearl set up and managed. Also …
A unique agreement makes the nation a project regulator Woodfibre LNG recognizes the Squamish Nation, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw, as a partner — and as a full and legal environmental regulator — of the Woodfibre project on Howe Sound in Squamish Territory. Hereditary chief Ian Campbell, Xalek/Sekyu Siyam, reflects on how all this happened: “When Woodfibre came …
BC Premier David Eby is drawing high praise these days for what sounds like a near-biblical conversion to the cause of LNG development in BC. But while it’s true that his BC New Democratic Party once derided BC’s LNG hopes as “a cloud of pixie dust,” David Eby himself was never publicly opposed in practice. …
Squamish Nation supports Woodfibre LNG A unique agreement makes the nation a project regulator Woodfibre LNG recognizes the Squamish Nation, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw, as a partner — and as a full and legal environmental regulator — of the Woodfibre project on Howe Sound in Squamish Territory. Hereditary chief Ian Campbell, Xalek/Sekyu Siyam, reflects on how all …
