The following letter was sent to B.C.’s premier; and to Bruce Ralston, minister of energy, mines and low-carbon innovation, and to Selina Robinson, finance minister: February 16, 2021 Dear Premier Horgan and Ministers Ralston and Robinson, I am writing to express First Nations Natural Gas Alliance support for Geoscience BC’s minerals, energy and water earth …
Our Alliance chair, Crystal Smith, elected chief councillor of the Haisla Nation, spoke at the BC Natural Resources Forum in Prince George Jan. 30. More than a few in the audience were moved to tears. . . . The following transcript of her speech has been in a few places very lightly edited or condensed, …
At the BC Natural Resources Forum in Prince George, BC Premier John Horgan spoke on the Wet’suwet’en/Coastal Gas Link issue, and the role in it of his new “intermediary” liaison man, former NDP MP Nathan Cullen: “We are confident that there is a way forward. “I spent a day in a smokehouse feast at the …
The following is the response from BC’s human rights commissioner, Kasari Govender, to our open letter of 19 January, 2020: January 23, 2020 To Karen Ogen-Toews and the First Nations Natural Gas Alliance, Thank you for the open letter dated January 19, 2020. Your letter raises some of the challenges of communicating on this complex …
Our Alliance chair, Chief Crystal Smith, in a Canadian Press story that ran in (among others) the Tri-City News, Port Coquitlam BC, on 15 January 2020: Pipeline at centre of B.C. conflict is creating jobs for First Nations: chief “Our governance system has been managing poverty. It’s a similar situation in every First Nation in …
