Ottawa should include oil and gas in loan program
A letter to Ottawa from Indigenous groups, including our Alliance, calls on the federal government to include oil and gas in any loan-guarantee program to help Indigenous Peoples buy equity in natural-resource projects. The letter:
Thank you, Supreme Court of Canada
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…
Robert Dennis named advisor to Alliance
Robert Dennis, a former elected chief councillor of the Huu-ay-aht First Nations on Vancouver Island, is named Advisor to our First Nations Natural Gas Alliance. His accomplishments are well known throughout federal, provincial and Indigenous political circles. Robert spent a good part of four years, from 2011 to 2015, working with Karen Ogen, now CEO…
‘Canadian LNG is Indigenous’
Our new look at LNG: ‘Canadian LNG is Indigenous. Indigenous values are powering Canada’s low-carbon LNG opportunity.’ Read more on what it means: https://indigenouslng.ca This content also appeared as an ad in The Globe and Mail. The Globe, as well, carried a news story, available to its subscribers at https://ow.ly/Wtb850P7ciS. Its headline: ‘Indigenous leaders strive…
Karen Ogen: LNG in the energy future
The latest “science” on LNG from the David Suzuki Foundation offers a classic example of cherry-picking. A simple definition of cherry-picking: “The act of pointing to individual cases or data that seem to confirm a particular position while ignoring a significant portion of related and similar cases or data that may contradict that position.” That the…