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…
Crystal Smith: If Mark Ruffalo cared about First Nations like mine, he’d defend natural gas projects
Our Alliance chair, Chief Crystal Smith of the Haisla Nation, in National Post: If Mark Ruffalo cared about First Nations like mine, he’d defend natural gas projects We have negotiated agreements which have built the Haisla’s capacity to employ our people, to rediscover our language, and to reconnect with our traditional ways Recently the likes…
Blog: It’s time to get Canada into the world LNG game
Shell’s LNG Outlook 2022 looks at world LNG supply and demand in the future and includes some positive findings: LNG has a key role to play as a reliable and lower-emission energy source, particularly in Asia; Natural gas plays a significant role in progressing net-zero-emissions ambitions. And there is this encouraging world-market vision for LNG…
Blog: Putting pipelines safely under rivers
Included in the protests and blockades of the Coastal GasLink pipeline is the proposition that drilling a tunnel for the pipe beneath the Morice River and its side-channels will endanger salmon runs. The Morice River (Wedzin Kwa to the Wet’suwet’en people) is indeed a salmon river. It supports chinook, pink, coho and sockeye salmon, and…
Blog: LNG’s big future after COP26
Hard-line eco-activists at the COP26 conference in Glasgow last week didn’t get what they wanted, commitments to the end of coal power and to the end of subsidies for fossil fuels. What they and the world got in the final (and non-binding) agreement was a call for “accelerating efforts towards the phase-down of unabated coal…