Prime Minister Mark Carney will start meeting Indigenous representatives on July 17 as he and his cabinet work to decide which major national resource projects get fast-tracked. “I will be meeting with First Nations rights holders on July 17, here in Ottawa, Inuit leadership in late July, and Métis leadership soon thereafter,” Carney announced. “I’ll …
Donald Trump’s dictatorial tariffs, and his chaotic off-again-on-again-up-again-down-again execution of them, is naturally causing economic and political woes for Canadian people, markets, and governments. But nowhere are the threats greater than for Indigenous Peoples and their communities, as so many Indigenous people are hit far more strongly than other Canadians by rising prices and economic …
‘This is why we say Canadian LNG is Indigenous LNG’ From a speech by Alliance CEO Karen Ogen (photo above) to the Canadian Global Affairs Institute’s conference on the global role of LNG, in Ottawa on Feb. 13, 2025. The First Nations Natural Gas Alliance was founded in 2014 not long after the idea of …
As LNG Canada’s partners look at potential Phase Two expansion, doubling their LNG output, they’d hope to use electrical power for their processes. And switching Phase One to electricity from BC Hydro (rather than burning some of the natural gas to generate power) is on many a wish-list. Meanwhile, Woodfibre LNG plans for its compressors …
Opponents of liquefied natural gas (LNG) development lost no time in urging the new British Columbia government to squash the LNG industry. The latest pitch avoided the old environmental eco-message: “If we want a liveable planet for ourselves, future generations and countless other species, we cannot build any more fossil fuel projects anywhere. Not one.” …
