Hard-line eco-activists at the COP26 conference in Glasgow last week didn’t get what they wanted, commitments to the end of coal power and to the end of subsidies for fossil fuels. What they and the world got in the final (and non-binding) agreement was a call for “accelerating efforts towards the phase-down of unabated coal …
Our newsletter 10 November 2021: Our next online Outreach session We’ll take a look at progress on LNG projects in our next Outreach session, on Wednesday Nov. 24. It will start 15 minutes earlier than past sessions, and will run from 11:45am to 1pm PST. We’ll post details on our social-media pages when we have …
Sounds like it’s still a man’s world out there, or at least still a world with too many barriers to employment for women in the LNG and pipeline sector. In our Nov. 3 Outreach session online, our online speakers opened by listing such barriers: Paula Smith, program facilitator, Your Place training: “(Among) the issues that …
How do you get started as an Indigenous entrepreneur? How do you fund and start your own business? Our online Outreach session on 26 January 2022 looked into this, with some First Nations experts: Mark Dokis of the National Aboriginal Capital Corporations Association Sammy Zoerb, business development manager, Indigenous Young Entrepreneurs at Futurpreneur Canada …
Policies hamper the Indigenous right to say ‘yes’ to projects Ken Coates, professor, commentator, senior fellow of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, and friend of our Alliance, supports the right of Indigenous peoples to approve resource projects, and to be prime players in them. But, he argues, government policies aimed at reinforcing Indigenous rights to consultation “are …
