Looking for work (or business) in the LNG field?
“We want jobs!” — Archie Patrick, former chief councillor, Stellat’en Nation First, please be aware that there is no central hiring or contracting agency for LNG developers in B.C. You need to apply to the individual companies and contractors. To explore possibilities with potential employers and contractors, here below are some useful pages: (This page…
Chief Dan George: First Nations are eyeing equity partnerships
Chief Dan George’s guest column in The Province, 22 February 2019: Many B.C. First Nations have benefit agreements with LNG and other resource projects, offering reliable and predictable revenues for Indigenous communities, their people and their governments. Now there’s growing interest in taking a more ambitious step: going for equity ownership, a share of the…
‘We need to find a way forward together’
Our CEO, Karen Ogen-Toews, writes a guest column in The Province: We have protest groups, we have politicians, we have social-media axe-grinders and we have people with their own legal interpretation of the issues, all arguing back and forth over whether First Nations are governed by hereditary chiefs or elected councillors. But there’s usually something…
Karen Ogen-Toews on CBC, on moving on from pipeline protests
‘Whether we’re elected chiefs or hereditary chiefs, we must find ways forward for our people.’ And the people are the most important and critical factor. The CBC News story: https://bit.ly/2VYme7F And the audio recording of her interview with CBC Radio’s Stephen Quinn: https://bit.ly/2Hf4OAA
Come together for the Wet’suwet’en people
The following guest column by our Karen Ogen-Toews ran in the Prince George Citizen on 22 December 2018: It is difficult to see as a positive development this week’s announcement of a second road blockade at the Unist’ot’en camp to block the Coastal Gaslink gas pipeline, in Wet’suwet’en territories. We cannot see how setting the…