Newsletter: Three Alliance women lead in Canadian LNG

Our newsletter: 14 March 2024 These These women lead in Canadian LNG Featured by Alberta’s Canadian Energy Centre were Crystal Smith (left), chair of our Alliance and elected chief councillor of the Haisla Nation; Karen Ogen (centre), CEO of the Alliance; and Eva Clayton, president of the Nisga’a Nation and vice-chair of the Alliance. Chief …

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News: First Nations LNG Alliance hails Nisga’a pipeline deal

News releases: TC Energy agrees to sell Prince Rupert Gas Transmission pipeline system (approved but not yet built) to the Nisga’a Nation and Western LNG, to feed the nation’s proposed Ksi Lisims LNG project: https://ow.ly/JcAH50QTKZk  See also: https://ow.ly/tv1s50QTNtk Karen Ogen, CEO of the First Nations Natural Gas Alliance, responded to the news above with the following …

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Newsletter: BC offers loan guarantees for First Nations, and more news . . . .

Our newsletter: 29 February 2024 B.C. introduces loan-guarantee program The 2024-5 B.C. budget speech from Finance Minister Katrine Conroy (above) promised loan guarantees for First Nations so they can borrow funds to purchase equity interest in projects “across a broad range of sectors.” See pages 62-63 of the speech at https://ow.ly/UXRP50QGV1G Conroy added: “Through First …

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Blog: World LNG demand is rising, but the peak is coming

Energy giant Shell sees global demand for liquefied natural gas rising by more than 50% by 2040. In its 2024 Outlook for LNG, it cites as reasons industrial coal-to-gas switching to generate power, a switch that is gathering pace in China and South Asian and South-east Asian countries. At the same time, though, Shell’s forecasts …

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