There were scary headlines around the world this week as the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a new report. It said global temperatures are set to rise by 1.5 degrees Celsius over the next 20 years, and pinned much of the blame on burning coal, oil and natural gas as “the …
Ken Coates, University of Saskatchewan professor and Munk Senior Fellow in Aboriginal and Northern Canadian Issues at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, has long been a friend of the Alliance. Let us then, for our newest blog, reproduce his latest column for the Institute: What if money is not the answer for Indigenous communities? Coates writes: The …
The Alliance’s third outreach session on 29 July 2021 drew participants from BC and Alberta, and focused on local governments’ roles in economic reconciliation with First Nations. Here are condensed remarks from Mayor Dale Bumstead of Dawson Creek BC, himself a member of the Métis Nation, and Councillor Charlie Rensby of Burns Lake BC: Mayor …
Soon after the Ksi Lisims LNG project filed its official project description with regulatory authorities, a knee-jerk letter to the editor appeared on Vancouver Island, decrying the project’s potential impact on the global environment. No mention, of course, as to how the Nisga’a-led project itself plans to be Net Zero within three years, and no …
The Ksi Lisims LNG project, led by the Nisga’a First Nation, has filed its initial project description with federal and BC regulatory authorities. Among the points made: At full build-out, the floating project will produce up to 12 million tonnes per annum of LNG, with an expected life of at least 30 years. “The proponents …
