Karen Ogen: Canadian LNG is indeed Indigenous LNG
By KAREN OGEN, CEO, First Nations Natural Gas Alliance Three years ago, the world’s premier liquefied natural gas conference came to Canada – Vancouver, in fact – for the first time. It was an opportunity for BC to tell the world about our fledgling LNG opportunity. At that point three years ago, LNG Canada wasn’t…
Blog: Ksi Lisims LNG project heads for Final Investment Decision
Ksi Lisims LNG, a proposed Indigenous-led floating facility in northwestern BC, is rapidly approaching a final investment decision (FID). The proponents are the Nisga’a Nation (which owns the planned site for onshore components at Wil Milit in northwestern BC), Rockies LNG (a partnership of Western Canadian natural-gas producers) and Texas-based Western LNG (which has been…
Blog: Cedar LNG on Haisla track for 2028
The Cedar LNG project marked on June 25 two years since Haisla Nation and partner Pembina Pipeline Corporation of Canada made a positive Final Investment Decision (FID). It was, said Cedar LNG, the start of “a new era of Indigenous-owned and led energy infrastructure.” The project is majority-owned by the Haisla Nation (50.1%) in partnership…
Blog: Major reforms for project approvals
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…
Blog: How 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 this happened: “When Woodfibre came…