Our newsletter: 28 March 2024 We have questions on the federal loan program With the federal government planning to include an Indigenous loan-guarantee program in its 2024-5 budget on April 16, we have raised some issues and questions. Will the program allow for investment in oil and gas ventures? Will it allow for Indigenous investment …
The federal budget for 2024-5, due to be presented to Parliament on April 16, promises to include a loan-guarantee program to enable Indigenous People to invest in resource projects on their territories. Such a program should be welcome — but how welcome depends on Ottawa’s rules and red tape surrounding it. That a program is …
We’ve been spreading the message in that headline above for a long time online — and now it’s becoming even more clear. For example, the Nisga’a Nation now has announced, with Western LNG, the planned purchase from TC Energy of the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission pipeline project (PRGT). It would be used to feed natural …
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 …
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 …
