The First Nations Natural Gas Alliance welcomes its newest member from Treaty 6, the O’Chiese First Nation, who number approximately 1,600 and are of Saulteaux and Cree ancestry. The O’Chiese community, which today resides near Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, says it takes very seriously its ancestral responsibility of looking after its lands, resources, and people. …
The federal budget for 2024-5, due to be presented to Parliament on April 16, promises to include a loan-guarantee program to enable Indigenous People to invest in resource projects on their territories. Such a program should be welcome — but how welcome depends on Ottawa’s rules and red tape surrounding it. That a program is …
We’ve been spreading the message in that headline above for a long time online — and now it’s becoming even more clear. For example, the Nisga’a Nation now has announced, with Western LNG, the planned purchase from TC Energy of the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission pipeline project (PRGT). It would be used to feed natural …
News releases: TC Energy agrees to sell Prince Rupert Gas Transmission pipeline system (approved but not yet built) to the Nisga’a Nation and Western LNG, to feed the nation’s proposed Ksi Lisims LNG project: https://ow.ly/JcAH50QTKZk See also: https://ow.ly/tv1s50QTNtk Karen Ogen, CEO of the First Nations Natural Gas Alliance, responded to the news above with the following …
Our newsletter: 29 February 2024 B.C. introduces loan-guarantee program The 2024-5 B.C. budget speech from Finance Minister Katrine Conroy (above) promised loan guarantees for First Nations so they can borrow funds to purchase equity interest in projects “across a broad range of sectors.” See pages 62-63 of the speech at https://ow.ly/UXRP50QGV1G Conroy added: “Through First …
