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 …
That was a meaningful one-liner on Twitter from Ellis Ross: “Canada; the resource discount store where the US does all its oil and gas shopping.” Sadly true. And how sad that so many opponents of developing LNG in BC pass over this key point—that unless we export LNG to new Asian markets, we simply continue …
Ellis Ross, Haisla First Nations member and BC MLA for Skeena, has kicked off a letter-writing campaign calling on Ottawa to cancel new import duties on steel modules needed for an LNG plant. Will you join in? If so, print the form below, sign, and send! (You don’t need a stamp to send mail to …
A step forward for LNG in BC Congratulations to LNG Canada for another step forward in the long march toward the finishing line for a $40-billion plant and terminal at Kitimat. The company has selected two candidates to be the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contractors for the project. They are two partnerships: one of TechnipFMC …
FIRST NATIONS, LNG, AND ECO-ACTIVISTS As CEO of the First Nations Natural Gas Alliance, I offered northern BC newspapers an opinion article on First Nations and LNG in BC. It began this way: “The days when First Nations take a back seat on how their territories are managed are past. “In fact it is dismaying …
