The following guest column by our Karen Ogen-Toews ran in the Prince George Citizen on 22 December 2018: It is difficult to see as a positive development this week’s announcement of a second road blockade at the Unist’ot’en camp to block the Coastal Gaslink gas pipeline, in Wet’suwet’en territories. We cannot see how setting the …
By Laurie Hamelin APTN News A hereditary chief in British Columbia says people standing in the way of the LNG pipeline need to step aside and let the project get up and running. “I’m just getting tired of hearing about it,” she says. “I’m just waiting for the shovel to get into the ground , …
First Nations in BC “have an opportunity in front of us that is historic”, an opportunity that comes from the development of the LNG industry. Those words were from Chief Councillor Crystal Smith, at a Prince Rupert gathering hosted on Tuesday by the First Nations LNG Alliance. “We have the opportunity to re-instil our economy …
The following is a guest column by our Alliance chair, Chief Dan George, that ran in The Vancouver Sun on 15 December 2018. Reaction to the Coastal GasLink application for a court injunction to lift the blockade of a public bridge in Wet’suwet’en territory highlights two major issues that First Nations must resolve. The first …
Our letter to the editor in the Victoria Times Colonist on 08 December 2018: LNG means a lot to First Nations Re: “An effective climate plan must be bold and can’t include LNG,” Comment, Dec. 4 So the Sierra Club thinks an effective B.C. climate plan can’t include liquefied natural gas. They have missed the point …
