Blog: First Nations as pipeline owners

TC Energy’s offer to 20 First Nations of 10% equity in the Coastal GasLink pipeline brings to mind the drive by a number of nations to take over ownership of the Trans Mountain pipeline system from its current owner: you, the federal taxpayer. At last count, three First Nations groups were working on Ottawa to …

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Newsletter: Women in trades, LNG Canada expansion, Woodfibre LNG is a go

  New Fact Sheets explore issues Now on the Alliance website, three new informative Fact Sheets: Women in Trades: There are vast opportunities for women in the trades. Many of these opportunities are particularly suited to Indigenous women in northern B.C. This Fact Sheet provides an introduction to the potential for training and work in …

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Newsletter: Chief Crystal Smith raps Hollywood opponents

Crystal Smith column in National Post The headline on her guest column: If Mark Ruffalo cared about First Nations like mine, he’d defend natural gas projects And she wrote: “Recently the likes of Mark Ruffalo and Ben Stiller have, with some of their friends, opposed — strongly — natural gas developments in the northwest of B.C., …

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Crystal Smith: If Mark Ruffalo cared about First Nations like mine, he’d defend natural gas projects

Our Alliance chair, Chief Crystal Smith of the Haisla Nation, in National Post: If Mark Ruffalo cared about First Nations like mine, he’d defend natural gas projects We have negotiated agreements which have built the Haisla’s capacity to employ our people, to rediscover our language, and to reconnect with our traditional ways Recently the likes …

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Outreach session: Safe and inclusive work spaces

Our 10th Outreach and Diversity session, on 23 March 2022, looked at safe and inclusive work spaces. The speakers: Stewart Cameron (Kiwitinohk Acahkos) of the Saulteau First Nation in BC and president of Maugwa Energy; Michael Gibb, director of health, safety, security and quality at Coastal GasLink; and Budd Phillips, manager of prevention field services …

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