Chief Dan George: First Nations are eyeing equity partnerships

Chief Dan George’s guest column in The Province, 22 February 2019:  Many B.C. First Nations have benefit agreements with LNG and other resource projects, offering reliable and predictable revenues for Indigenous communities, their people and their governments. Now there’s growing interest in taking a more ambitious step: going for equity ownership, a share of the …

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First Nations LNG Alliance Newsletter 19 – Our Alliance’s wise words

The two quotes above are from our Alliance CEO, Karen Ogen-Toews, on LNG Canada’s Facebook page, which has 17,000 followers. It ran the quotes with: ‘Karen Ogen-Toews offers more insight into the necessity of Indigenous consultation and the need to find a path forward together.” Her words were from her guest column in The Province …

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‘We need to find a way forward together’

Our CEO, Karen Ogen-Toews, writes a guest column in The Province: We have protest groups, we have politicians, we have social-media axe-grinders and we have people with their own legal interpretation of the issues, all arguing back and forth over whether First Nations are governed by hereditary chiefs or elected councillors. But there’s usually something …

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First Nations LNG Alliance Newsletter 18 – Chiefs, councils, and the people

Alliance leaders have been talking sense to news media about issues around hereditary chiefs and elected councils. For example, Alliance CEO Karen Ogen-Toews, a former elected chief councillor of the Wet’suwet’en Nation, was on CBC Radio’s Early Edition show, discussing the matter with host Stephen Quinn. Among other things, she said, the people of any …

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