Our Alliance CEO, Karen Ogen-Toews, drove home a tragic history lesson toward reconciliation, in an online discussion hosted by the Sault Ste. Marie Chamber of Commerce: Resource Champions: Creating Indigenous Prosperity. “We are in the era of Reconciliation. It’s in the air, it’s everywhere . . . (but) just in relation to the question about …
In one of our blogs, we explored how First Nations need support to open avenues to enable Indigenous equity investment in resource projects. Today, we look at another barrier to Indigenous equity investment — the federal government’s emissions-cap policy for oil and gas. We turn to the Indigenous Resource Network (IRN) for opening thoughts on …
Canada has LNG for the world Ellis Ross, BC Liberal MLA, former elected chief councillor of the Haisla Nation, and long a champion of LNG exports, was interviewed by BNN Bloomberg in Ottawa. Key comments: “In BC, back in 2004, it was actually First Nations that first brought the idea of exporting LNG to …
Call it doublespeak, fuzzwords, mediaspeak, or just plain confusing. But what does Ottawa mean by its constant befuddlement on LNG exports? It begins, of course, with Prime Minister Trudeau responding in late August to pressing German appeals for LNG from Canada by saying there has “never been a strong business case” for exports to Europe …
Our Alliance CEO, Karen Ogen-Toews, and Indigenous entrepreneur Chris Sankey are members of the national organizing committee for International Gas Research Conference to be held in Banff AB in May 2024. Karen: “Both Chris Sankey and I were chosen to represent the Indigenous people of Canada and assist with an engagement plan for all of …
