First Nations Natural Gas Alliance

Blog: Renewable energies: favoured but formidable

We often have to remind non-Indigenous people that Indigenous Peoples do not automatically speak with one voice. Some favour natural-resource development; some do not. Some are for oil and gas pipelines, and some are against. But First Nations people do agree on this: They care for the natural environment. They have done so for countless …

Read more

Blog: First Nations as pipeline owners

TC Energy’s offer to 20 First Nations of 10% equity in the Coastal GasLink pipeline brings to mind the drive by a number of nations to take over ownership of the Trans Mountain pipeline system from its current owner: you, the federal taxpayer. At last count, three First Nations groups were working on Ottawa to …

Read more

Newsletter: Women in trades, LNG Canada expansion, Woodfibre LNG is a go

  New Fact Sheets explore issues Now on the Alliance website, three new informative Fact Sheets: Women in Trades: There are vast opportunities for women in the trades. Many of these opportunities are particularly suited to Indigenous women in northern B.C. This Fact Sheet provides an introduction to the potential for training and work in …

Read more

Newsletter: Chief Crystal Smith raps Hollywood opponents

Crystal Smith column in National Post The headline on her guest column: If Mark Ruffalo cared about First Nations like mine, he’d defend natural gas projects And she wrote: “Recently the likes of Mark Ruffalo and Ben Stiller have, with some of their friends, opposed — strongly — natural gas developments in the northwest of B.C., …

Read more

First Nations Natural Gas Alliance Newsletter