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. …
The following guest column by Alliance CEO Karen Ogen ran in The Financial Post on June 3: Opinion: Indigenous-led LNG deal with Germany is the kind of reconciliation Canada needs Karen Ogen: The agreement between the Ksi Lisims project and a government-owned German energy utility shows reconciliation can bring real benefit By Karen Ogen An Indigenous-led …
No wonder that Resource Works founder and CEO, Stewart Muir, called the Montney natural-gas reserves in Canada “British Columbia’s economic crown jewel.” The Montney Formation in BC and Aberta has an area of 130,000 km², about the size of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia combined. That’s roughly two-thirds the size of the famed Permian Basin in …
After 10 years of federal reluctance to push energy exports, the government of Prime Minister Mark Carney has been signalling things will change. And now comes a new outlook from the Canada Energy Regulator that sees our natural-gas use, driven by LNG exports, growing by 47 per cent by 2050, and perhaps as much as …
