Month: February 2018

Blog: UNDRIP, and ‘the last word’

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 …

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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 …

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First Nations LNG Alliance Newsletter 08 – Canada: the US discount store

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 …

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BC LNG: the time is coming

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 …

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First Nations LNG Alliance Newsletter