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 …
That was a meaningful one-liner on Twitter from Ellis Ross: “Canada; the resource discount store where the US does all its oil and gas shopping.” Sadly true. And how sad that so many opponents of developing LNG in BC pass over this key point—that unless we export LNG to new Asian markets, we simply continue …
We shake our collective Alliance heads when we get zealous comments such as these posted on our social media channels: “LNG is dead, dead, dead.” “LNG is a thing of the past.” “Do you not understand that LNG is gone and we must move on renewables?” A thing of the past? This is not what …
It’s easy to define energy literacy as “an understanding of the nature and role of energy in the world and daily lives.” But that definition, from a government education program, then adds a tough twist. It says this understanding must be “accompanied by the ability to apply this understanding to answer questions and solve problems.” …
