The First Nations LNG Alliance heartily congratulates the Haisla Nation, Cedar LNG, and Pembina Pipeline Corporation on their June 25, 2024 announcement that the Cedar LNG project will go ahead. Pictured here speaking at the event is Haisla Nation Chief Councillor and Alliance Chair Crystal Smith, with Pembina President and CEO Scott Burrows looking on. For more information on the announcement, click here.
"Those who oppose LNG leave Indigenous people out of the equation — activism and obstructionism without consultation that will create more poverty than prosperity for our nations.
When activists call for the end of investments in Canadian LNG, these are the opportunities they are taking away from our communities. But they ignore the benefits for Indigenous people. We won’t sit idly by and allow people to tell us how and with whom to invest our time, energy and resources. We’ve done that for too long, losing economic and community benefits along the way."
And we need access to capital, through loan guarantees and other measures that allow us to own our own future.
First Nations are writing the roadmap to clean energy prosperity, a roadmap to owning our future.
Fundamentally, reconciliation is impossible without a strong economic foundation to advance change. For Indigenous communities, the outcomes of building Canadian LNG are tangible and essential: jobs and Indigenous-owned businesses, own-source revenues to fund clean drinking water, housing and economic opportunities, and more.
We will continue to inform Canadians that Canadian LNG is a direct route to jobs and benefits for Indigenous and non-Indigenous people alike.
And the direct route for low-carbon Canadian LNG to Asia is through Canada, not through the US to the Gulf Coast – but from Treaty 8 to the Coast.
We will play our part as an advocate for responsible energy development.
We are closing the Indigenous Energy Gap.
Canadian LNG is Indigenous LNG, and that is good for the world.
Click here to see more from First Nations LNG Alliance CEO Karen Ogen’s speech to the 2024 Creating Energy – Northern Resource Conference at Fort St. John BC, on 21 May 2024.
Crystal Smith, Chief Councillor, Haisla Nation, Chair, First Nations LNG Alliance, Eva Clayton, President, Nisga’a Lisims Government, Vice-Chair, First Nations LNG Alliance, and Karen Ogen, CEO First Nations LNG Alliance tour Wamis, HaiSea Marine’s zero-emission tugboat, in Vancouver (July 10, 2023)
HaiSea Marine is a joint venture majority owned by the Haisla Nation in partnership with Seaspan ULC. HaiSea Marine has a major contract with LNG Canada to build and operate battery-powered tugboats for their export facility in Kitimat.