LNG Canada to benefit First Nations The long-awaited $40-billion LNG Canada project at Kitimat, and the associated pipeline that will feed it natural gas, mean big and long-term benefits for First Nations, says the First Nations Natural Gas Alliance of BC. “This is huge news,” the Alliance’s CEO, Karen Ogen-Toews, former chief of the Wet’suwet’en …
LNG in BC has been making headlines lately. One of the latest was when BC Premier John Horgan addressed the Union of BC Municipalities convention at Whistler on Sept. 14. As Vaughn Palmer of The Vancouver Sun reported, Horgan told delegates: “We are now very, very close to realizing a final investment decision from LNG …
The First Nations Natural Gas Alliance joins 14 BC mayors in supporting LNG development, and expressing concern about a jurisdictional challenge affecting TransCanada’s $4.7-billion Coastal GasLink pipeline. “The implications and timing of the challenge are really unfortunate,” said Karen Ogen-Toews, CEO of the Alliance. “The joint-venture partners in the $40-billion LNG Canada project are soon …
The First Nations Natural Gas Alliance cheered today the announcement that the Coastal GasLink Pipeline has signed community and project agreements with all 20 First Nations councils along its proposed pipeline route in BC. “This is great news for the Nations,” said Karen Ogen-Toews, CEO of the First Nations Natural Gas Alliance. “When the pipeline …
Fourteen northern B.C. mayors whose communities would financially benefit from the planned LNG Canada multi-billion liquefied natural gas project at Kitimat say they’re disappointed a Smithers resident now wants a federal review of the pipeline that would feed it. The mayors of communities from northeastern B.C. through the northwest have told Michael Sawyer he had years to …
