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 …
“For First Nations to be true partners in LNG development, real benefits must materialize.” That was one of the key issues explored in the major Joint Engagement Report that we published earlier this year with the BC Ministry of Energy, Mines, and Petroleum Resources. The report notes: “Many ideas were generated about First Nations views around benefits, …
We’ve looked in our blogs at employment issues and government relations, as discussed in the Joint Engagement Report that we prepared earlier this year with the BC Ministry of Energy, Mines, and Petroleum Resources. Now for a look at regulatory and engagement processes around LNG projects, and how First Nations are involved and affected: For …
Good news in two ways: First, the announcement of the conditional award of $620 million in contract work to First Nations businesses along Coastal GasLink’s natural-gas pipeline route in BC. And second: our own news release on the announcement: “Pipeline pacts for First Nations ‘terrific’.” Quotes from Karen Ogen-Toews were used in media, and she …
