This guest column by our Alliance chair, Chief Dan George, appeared in The Vancouver Sun on 10 August 2018: First Nations’ successes in more than 200 court cases across Canada have established, defined or expanded our title and rights when it comes to resource development on our unceded territories. They have, for one thing, established …
TransCanada announced June 26 that its Coastal GasLink Pipeline project has conditionally awarded $620 million in contract work to northern BC Indigenous businesses for the project’s right-of-way clearing, medical, security and camp management needs. Conditional, that is, on a Final Investment Decision by the Joint Venture Participants of LNG Canada for their proposed natural gas …
Good news in two ways: First, the announcement of the conditional award of $620 million in contract work to First Nations businesses along Coastal GasLink’s natural-gas pipeline route in BC. And second: our own news release on the announcement: “Pipeline pacts for First Nations ‘terrific’.” Quotes from Karen Ogen-Toews were used in media, and she …
The First Nations Natural Gas Alliance hailed today the announcement by Coastal GasLink Pipeline of the conditional award of $620 million in contract work to First Nations businesses along Coastal GasLink’s natural-gas pipeline route in BC. “This is terrific news,” said Karen Ogen-Toews, CEO of the First Nations Natural Gas Alliance. “When there is a …
Crystal Smith, chief councillor of the Haisla Nation and a director of our Alliance, was interviewed at length by host Stuart McNish of Oh Boy Productions in Vancouver. Here are some of the things she discussed: The potential benefits of LNG development: “Every time I think about the programming that we could potentially offer, and …
