Alliance director Clifford White is interviewed by Alberta’s Canadian Energy Centre: ‘Indigenous people are the caretakers of this planet and we can be a part of making effective change.’ There is a winter spiritual tradition among the members of the Gitxaala Nation of taking a plunge into dark, swirling waters of the Pacific Ocean off …
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has long collected and interpreted statistics, and calls itself “the most authoritative global source of energy analysis and projections.” In recent years, though, the IEA has also taken to painting three-part “scenarios” of possibilities. As others have noted, these scenarios tend to look like this: If current government energy policies …
This column first appeared through the Macdonald-Laurier Institute Photo of NDP MP Charlie Angus By Karen Ogen: Proposed ban on oil and gas promotion revives paternalistic treatment of Indigenous peoples: MP Charlie Angus needs to withdraw his offensive attempt to silence discussion, and apologize. First Nations are used to oppression. We lived for over a …
By our Alliance CEO, Karen Ogen, in Business in Vancouver Indigenous. Opportunity. Ownership. Historically, those words have been spoken independently of each other. Today, after over a decade of LNG development – with the Coastal GasLink pipeline complete, and the LNG Canada facility in Kitimat nearing completion – we have entered an era where Indigenous, …
Introducing the Impact Assessment Act in 2019, the federal government promised speedier processing of natural-resource projects “through legislated timelines.” It didn’t happen. As the Canada West Foundation reported earlier this year: “The IAA was intended to speed up a cumbersome application process for major infrastructure and resource projects, some of which were in the assessment …
