Our newsletter: 21 December 2023
The B. C. government’s CleanBC policies to tackle greenhouse-gas emissions are expected to shrink B.C.’s economy by $28 billion, Denise Mullen (above) of the Business Council of B.C. told an Alliance webinar.
The Business Council, using the B.C. government’s own model, estimates that CleanBC “will make B.C.’s economy $28 billion smaller in 2030 and set prosperity back more than a decade.”
- Read Denise Mullen’s presentation: https://ow.ly/cqzw50QjuYY
- Listen to the webinar: https://ow.ly/8FJK50QjuYX [Passcode: 96P1t*x$]
LNG Canada to begin startup activities
LNG Canada’s Kitimat facility now is more than 85% complete, with all 215 large modules required for the gas liquification process installed.
Start-up activities will begin in 2024. “Our safe start-up program will take more than a year to complete; we’ll continue to keep local communities and First Nations informed of its progress. This work must be undertaken before we can start shipping our LNG abroad.
“We remain well-positioned to deliver our first cargoes of lower-carbon, made-in-B.C. LNG by the middle of this decade.”
- Full update, with video: https://ow.ly/8Wv250QiqHB
Haisla Nation gets fourth tug
HaiSea Marine, majority owned by the Haisla Nation in partnership with Seaspan ULC, gets its first LNG-powered tug, Haisea Kermode, for use with LNG carrier vessels moving to and from the LNG Canada terminal.
HaiSea previously took delivery of three smaller electric-battery tugs.
- The story: https://ow.ly/5LNH50Qjw1u
- About HaiSea: https://ow.ly/CW3850Qjw1v
FID on Haisla Cedar LNG expected in Q1
The final investment decision on the Haisla Nation’s Cedar LNG project is expected in the first quarter of 2024, reports partner Pembina Pipeline.
And Pembina says it expects to spend roughly $210 million on the Cedar LNG project in 2024 on “pre-FID contributions.”
- Story: https://ow.ly/eOQ650QhFcG
- About Cedar LNG: https://ow.ly/4cIf50QhFcF
CEO makes record impact
We carried on social media (with the graphic above) the following post from Alberta’s Canadian Energy Centre: “Learn why the CEO of the First Nations LNG Alliance believes Canada can play a major role in helping lower emissions throughout Asia while creating opportunities for Indigenous communities at home.”
On our Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter streams, that drew a record 2,756 audience interactions: likes, shares, and comments.
Indigenous clean-energy news
- Sawridge Nation’s wind farms to power Gibson Energy oil operations in Alberta: https://ow.ly/7YH250QhE5Q
- Five Nations Energy Inc. and Ontario’s Hydro One Networks to work together while increasing Indigenous participation in the energy sector: https://ow.ly/21NU50Qizn1
- BC Hydro proposes ‘a useful framework for First Nations participation’ in its 2024 call for new power, but ‘there are clear shortcomings in BC Hydro’s initial draft.’—law firm: https://ow.ly/CNeR50Qjvm1
ALSO IN THE NEWS
- Canada’s oil-and-gas emissions cap is under fire from experts and business leaders. And the Indigenous Resource Network will seek an Indigenous exemption to it. https://ow.ly/ufUc50Qi83Q
- View: Careful — an oil and gas emissions cap won’t just hurt Alberta: https://ow.ly/sF5T50QiQLI
- Commentary: Ottawa’s emissions plan long on costs, light on environmental benefits: https://ow.ly/xLbX50Qh8hs
- Alberta Indigenous Opportunities Corporation helps 12 Indigenous communities to purchase equity in oil and gas infrastructure in Alberta: https://ow.ly/1tzm50QiMK5
- New report sees overseas markets for BC LNG: Japan, South Korea, Taiwan. And there are others. https://ow.ly/55gQ50QisuV
- Canada’s upstream oil and gas industry and drilling services sector has a ‘very favourable’ outlook for 2024: https://ow.ly/h9bz50QjvR9
DATES
2024
- The 21st annual BC Natural Resources Forum, Prince George, Jan. 16-18: https://ow.ly/phNt50QgMm3
- National Coalition of Chiefs Clean Energy Summit, Feb. 15-16, Tsuut’ina Nation, near Calgary: https://ow.ly/KRF250PTvVy
- The First Nations Major Projects Coalition’s 7th annual conference, Toronto, April 22-23: https://ow.ly/4nw750PHYCf
- The 8th Indigenous Resource Opportunities Conference, Nanaimo: April 24 – 26. https://ow.ly/f1bl50PvYnx
- The International Gas Research Conference, Banff, May 13-16: https://ow.ly/YCMV50Q9E6j. (And our Alliance CEO, Karen Ogen, is on the national organizing committee. https://igrc2024.org/)
- Forward Summit: Empowering Indigenous Economies, May 14-15, Tsuut’ina Nation, near Calgary: https://ow.ly/kXA050Q2OaQ
- Indigenous Partnerships Success Showcase, June 5-6, Vancouver Convention Centre: https://ow.ly/uiop50QjxVH Early-bird tickets available until Feb. 1.
- National Coalition of Chiefs Energy and Natural Resource Summit, June 9-10, Tsuut’ina Nation, near Calgary: https://ow.ly/ch9u50PTw7X?
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