[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]First Nations Natural Gas Alliance applauds BC support for LNG British Columbia’s First Nations Natural Gas Alliance gave thumbs-up Thursday to BC’s new “level playing field” for LNG development. “A positive and welcome move,” said Alliance CEO Karen Ogen-Toews, as BC announced what it called “a revised fiscal framework that is designed to put natural …
Since our last newsletter, there was a flurry of news on LNG in BC: LNG Canada told media that it is working on material to go before the partners in the process leading up to the Final Investment Decision; Shell Canada disclosed that, in advance of the FID on LNG Canada, the joint-venture partners will …
The following letter was publicly posted on 15 March 2018 by the Haisla First Nation, a couple of days after it was sent to BC Green Party leader Andrew Weaver: A recent blog post by BC Green Party leader Dr. Andrew Weaver criticized the LNG industry, and the government for promoting it. Building an LNG …
This guest column first ran in The Vancouver Sun almost a year ago, but the message still rings true. . . . By JOSEPH BEVAN Chief councillor, Kitselas First Nation When I was elected chief councillor of the Kitselas First Nation, located near Terrace, it was part of my mandate to move forward on economic …
Our Karen Ogen-Toews in The Vancouver Sun: It’s time for activists, who paint First Nations as overwhelmingly opposed to LNG and natural-resource development, to allow First Nations to speak for ourselves. Indeed, it’s dismaying to find that some environmental activists are trying to control First Nations territories, just as governments and corporations have done in …
