Crystal Smith the face of Canadian LNG
(From Natural Gas World at the World Gas Conference) Nearly four years ago, five of the world’s most well-known players on the global natural gas stage sanctioned Canada’s first world-scale LNG export project – the 14mn mt/yr first phase of LNG Canada. Backed by names like global major Shell, Malaysia’s PETRONAS, PetroChina, Korea Gas and…
Newsletter: Chief Crystal Smith raps Hollywood opponents
Crystal Smith column in National Post The headline on her guest column: If Mark Ruffalo cared about First Nations like mine, he’d defend natural gas projects And she wrote: “Recently the likes of Mark Ruffalo and Ben Stiller have, with some of their friends, opposed — strongly — natural gas developments in the northwest of B.C.,…
Crystal Smith: If Mark Ruffalo cared about First Nations like mine, he’d defend natural gas projects
Our Alliance chair, Chief Crystal Smith of the Haisla Nation, in National Post: If Mark Ruffalo cared about First Nations like mine, he’d defend natural gas projects We have negotiated agreements which have built the Haisla’s capacity to employ our people, to rediscover our language, and to reconnect with our traditional ways Recently the likes…
Outreach session: Safe and inclusive work spaces
Our 10th Outreach and Diversity session, on 23 March 2022, looked at safe and inclusive work spaces. The speakers: Stewart Cameron (Kiwitinohk Acahkos) of the Saulteau First Nation in BC and president of Maugwa Energy; Michael Gibb, director of health, safety, security and quality at Coastal GasLink; and Budd Phillips, manager of prevention field services…
Guest column: Canada needs to set a new course with energy and minerals
This article appeared as a guest column in the Victoria Times Colonist newspaper A commentary by the CEO of the First Nations LNG Alliance. She is an elected councillor of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation and a former elected chief. By KAREN OGEN-TOEWS For a while, we thought Ottawa might be beginning to understand the world…
