Newsletter: Clean BC program to cost billions

Our newsletter: 21 December 2023 The B. C. government’s CleanBC policies to tackle greenhouse-gas emissions are expected to shrink B.C.’s economy by $28 billion, Denise Mullen (above) of the Business Council of B.C. told an Alliance webinar. The Business Council, using the B.C. government’s own model, estimates that CleanBC “will make B.C.’s economy $28 billion …

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Blog: Key Asian markets seen for B.C. LNG

Japan, South Korea and Taiwan are good potential markets for B.C. liquefied natural gas — and for blue hydrogen and ammonia derived from our natural gas. This assessment is in a new report from the First Nations Climate Initiative (FNCI), whose members are the Haisla, Nisga’a, Metlakatla and Halfway River Nations. Both the Haisla and …

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Newsletter: Karen Ogen spreads the word at COP 28

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) …

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Blog: How ‘Article 6’ could help our LNG exports

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 …

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