First Nations back LNG: Report
There’s a “high degree of support” among First Nations for LNG development in BC, a new report finds. “In fact, many First Nations representatives raised the need to push the remaining projects over the finish line,” adds the report, from the First Nations LNG Alliance and the BC’s Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources….
Alliance applauds BC support for LNG
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]First Nations LNG Alliance applauds BC support for LNG British Columbia’s First Nations LNG Alliance gave thumbs-up Thursday to BC’s new “level playing field” for LNG development. “A positive and welcome move,” said Alliance CEO Karen Ogen-Toews, as BC announced what it called “a revised fiscal framework that is designed to put natural gas development…
Haisla Nation supports LNG development
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…
Protecting First Nations interests in resource development
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…
LNG in B.C. on First Nations’ terms
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…
