Dan George: Court case threatens Indigenous benefits
This guest column by our Alliance chair, Chief Dan George, appeared in The Vancouver Sun on 10 August 2018: First Nations’ successes in more than 200 court cases across Canada have established, defined or expanded our title and rights when it comes to resource development on our unceded territories. They have, for one thing, established…
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…
Pipeline pacts for First Nations ‘terrific’
The First Nations LNG Alliance hailed today the announcement by Coastal GasLink Pipeline of the conditional award of $620 million in contract work to First Nations businesses along Coastal GasLink’s natural-gas pipeline route in BC. “This is terrific news,” said Karen Ogen-Toews, CEO of the First Nations LNG Alliance. “When there is a Final Investment…
Indigenous leaders see new hope for LNG
‘Once in a lifetime’ economic opportunity for B.C.’s northwest By Tom Fletcher Legislature reporter, Black Press A group of northwestern B.C. Indigenous leaders is encouraged by meetings with the NDP government about the prospects for liquefied natural gas development. Members of the First Nations LNG Alliance travelled to Victoria this week, after Premier John Horgan’s…
First Nations back LNG: New report
There’s a “high degree of support” among First Nations for LNG in BC, finds a new report from our Alliance and BC’s Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources.
