Blog: Morice River crossing to be finished — safely
Coastal GasLink continues to safely advance the tunnel below the Morice River, through which CGL’s natural-gas pipeline will run. CGL reports that the tunneling process is anticipated to be completed this winter, which will mark the completion of all 10 major watercourse crossings on the pipeline route. And the project is showing up the fear-mongering…
Blog: First Nations leaders in clean energy
As the First Nations LNG Alliance, we naturally follow and share much news about liquefied natural gas, and how it can help bring down global greenhouse-gas emissions. But there’s much more than that on the green-and-clean front, as First Nations — stewards of the environment since time immemorial — take the lead in producing modern…
Blog: Reconcile our past so that we can move forward
History and the road to Reconciliation Our Alliance CEO, Karen Ogen-Toews, took part in an online discussion hosted by the Sault Ste. Marie Chamber of Commerce: Resource Champions: Creating Indigenous Prosperity. What follows is a condensed and lightly edited version of her remarks on several topics. “We are in the era of Reconciliation. It’s in the air,…
Blog: Emissions cap harms Indigenous Peoples
In one of our blogs, we explored how First Nations need support to open avenues to enable Indigenous equity investment in resource projects. Today, we look at another barrier to Indigenous equity investment — the federal government’s emissions-cap policy for oil and gas. We turn to the Indigenous Resource Network (IRN) for opening thoughts on…
Blog: Time for real federal action on LNG
Call it doublespeak, fuzzwords, mediaspeak, or just plain confusing. But what does Ottawa mean by its constant befuddlement on LNG exports? It begins, of course, with Prime Minister Trudeau responding in late August to pressing German appeals for LNG from Canada by saying there has “never been a strong business case” for exports to Europe…
