Natural gas deal benefits salmon in Huu-ay-aht waters

The following story ran on CBC News: A financial deal between the Huu-ay-aht First Nations and a natural gas exporter is allowing a decades-old salmon renewal plan to go ahead, according to Huu-ay-aht Chief Coun. Robert J. Dennis Sr. The Sarita and Pachena Watershed Renewal project aims to restore depleted salmon spawning areas and juvenile salmon habitats in key waterways on Huu-ay-aht Nations’ territory on the west coast of Vancouver Island …

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Coastal GasLink signing ceremonies

TransCanada announced June 26 that its Coastal GasLink Pipeline project has conditionally awarded $620 million in contract work to northern BC Indigenous businesses for the project’s right-of-way clearing, medical, security and camp management needs. Conditional, that is, on a Final Investment Decision by the Joint Venture Participants of LNG Canada for their proposed natural gas …

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Blog: From LNG, ‘real benefits’ needed

“For First Nations to be true partners in LNG development, real benefits must materialize.” That was one of the key issues explored in the major Joint Engagement Report that we published earlier this year with the BC Ministry of Energy, Mines, and Petroleum Resources. The report notes: “Many ideas were generated about First Nations views around benefits, …

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Blog: First Nations’ Engagement on LNG

We’ve looked in our blogs at employment issues and government relations, as discussed in the Joint Engagement Report that we prepared earlier this year with the BC Ministry of Energy, Mines, and Petroleum Resources. Now for a look at regulatory and engagement processes around LNG projects, and how First Nations are involved and affected: For …

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