Coastal GasLink signing ceremonies
TransCanada announced June 26 that its Coastal GasLink Pipeline project has conditionally awarded $620 million in contract work to northern BC Indigenous businesses for the project’s right-of-way clearing, medical, security and camp management needs. Conditional, that is, on a Final Investment Decision by the Joint Venture Participants of LNG Canada for their proposed natural gas…
Pipeline pacts for First Nations ‘terrific’
The First Nations Natural Gas Alliance hailed today the announcement by Coastal GasLink Pipeline of the conditional award of $620 million in contract work to First Nations businesses along Coastal GasLink’s natural-gas pipeline route in BC. “This is terrific news,” said Karen Ogen-Toews, CEO of the First Nations Natural Gas Alliance. “When there is a…
Indigenous leaders see new hope for LNG
‘Once in a lifetime’ economic opportunity for B.C.’s northwest By Tom Fletcher Legislature reporter, Black Press A group of northwestern B.C. Indigenous leaders is encouraged by meetings with the NDP government about the prospects for liquefied natural gas development. Members of the First Nations Natural Gas Alliance travelled to Victoria this week, after Premier John…
First Nations back LNG: New report
There’s a “high degree of support” among First Nations for LNG in BC, finds a new report from our Alliance and BC’s Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources.
First Nations back LNG: Report
There’s a “high degree of support” among First Nations for LNG development in BC, a new report finds. “In fact, many First Nations representatives raised the need to push the remaining projects over the finish line,” adds the report, from the First Nations Natural Gas Alliance and the BC’s Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum…