Our newsletter: 07 December 2023 Our Alliance chair, Karen Ogen, began with a short interview on Indigenous Peoples Day at the COP28 climate conference in Dubai. It included this: “The Alberta Indigenous Opportunities Corporation and the work that they’re doing in Alberta with the First Nations, in terms of equity ownership . . . (are) …
Our blog, 29 November 2023 Article 6 of the international Paris Climate Agreement of 2015 spoke of “voluntary cooperation . . . to promote sustainable development and environmental integrity.” And at least in theory, Article 6 could be used to establish an international co-operative system of credits from emissions-reduction projects, and allow for international trade …
By our Alliance CEO, Karen Ogen, in Business in Vancouver Indigenous. Opportunity. Ownership. Historically, those words have been spoken independently of each other. Today, after over a decade of LNG development – with the Coastal GasLink pipeline complete, and the LNG Canada facility in Kitimat nearing completion – we have entered an era where Indigenous, …
Our newsletter: 23 November 2023 Early startup for LNG Canada? The Coastal GasLink pipeline finished installation ahead of a year-end deadline, and LNG Canada is more than 85% complete. So there’s been speculation that LNG Canada could start up earlier than its long-standing projection of “mid-decade.” The latest talk of an early start — in …
The federal government’s climate target for 2030 is a reduction of 40-45% of emissions nationally, compared to 2005 levels. And Ottawa is “committed to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.” Judging by the latest news, those targets are indeed merely hazy “targets.” As Parliament’s independent Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development reports: “The federal government …
