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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
BC Premier David Eby is drawing high praise these days for what sounds like a near-biblical conversion to the cause of LNG development in BC. But while it’s true that his BC New Democratic Party once derided BC’s LNG hopes as “a cloud of pixie dust,” David Eby himself was never publicly opposed in practice. …
