The following letter was publicly posted on 15 March 2018 by the Haisla First Nation, a couple of days after it was sent to BC Green Party leader Andrew Weaver: A recent blog post by BC Green Party leader Dr. Andrew Weaver criticized the LNG industry, and the government for promoting it. Building an LNG …
One thing is for sure: The anticipated increase in demand from global LNG customers is fast accelerating activity among LNG suppliers. The U.S. government, for one, is racing to approve a number of new LNG-for-export plants. Two plants are already operating. Eleven more are in the environmental review process, and at least six more are …
It’s all so simple to the person who, discussing LNG development, posted this comment on our Facebook page: “The indigenous have the last word what happens to the land.” Do we? If so, what does ”last word” mean? Whose last word? And how is that last word determined, decided, expressed, and put into practice? We …
This guest column first ran in The Vancouver Sun almost a year ago, but the message still rings true. . . . By JOSEPH BEVAN Chief councillor, Kitselas First Nation When I was elected chief councillor of the Kitselas First Nation, located near Terrace, it was part of my mandate to move forward on economic …
Our Karen Ogen-Toews in The Vancouver Sun: It’s time for activists, who paint First Nations as overwhelmingly opposed to LNG and natural-resource development, to allow First Nations to speak for ourselves. Indeed, it’s dismaying to find that some environmental activists are trying to control First Nations territories, just as governments and corporations have done in …
