Newsletter: Karen Ogen spreads the word at COP 28
Our newsletter: 07 December 2023 Our Alliance chair, Karen Ogen, began with a short interview on Indigenous Peoples Day at the COP28 climate conference in Dubai. It included this: “The Alberta Indigenous Opportunities Corporation and the work that they’re doing in Alberta with the First Nations, in terms of equity ownership . . . (are)…
CGL pipeline and new era for Indigenous people
By our Alliance CEO, Karen Ogen, in Business in Vancouver Indigenous. Opportunity. Ownership. Historically, those words have been spoken independently of each other. Today, after over a decade of LNG development – with the Coastal GasLink pipeline complete, and the LNG Canada facility in Kitimat nearing completion – we have entered an era where Indigenous,…
Ottawa should include oil and gas in loan program
A letter to Ottawa from Indigenous groups, including our Alliance, calls on the federal government to include oil and gas in any loan-guarantee program to help Indigenous Peoples buy equity in natural-resource projects. The letter:
Thank you, Supreme Court of Canada
Introducing the Impact Assessment Act in 2019, the federal government promised speedier processing of natural-resource projects “through legislated timelines.” It didn’t happen. As the Canada West Foundation reported earlier this year: “The IAA was intended to speed up a cumbersome application process for major infrastructure and resource projects, some of which were in the assessment…
