Publication: LNG exports a golden alternative

Our webinar on potential LNG exports to Europe featured Indigenous entrepreneur Chris Sankey, Alliance CEO Karen Ogen-Toews, Dale Swampy of the Nationwide Coalition of Chiefs, and Stephen Buffalo of the Indian Useful resource Council.

Chris Sankey: “Indigenous communities have been engaged in LNG for the final, I might say, 8 to 10 years. We now have a golden alternative to get entry to southeast Asia and the European market. . . . If we don’t bounce on the chance now, Canada will watch the ship go by as soon as once more.”

Karen Ogen-Toews: “We have to suppose globally. . . . If we’ve got a product that one other nation needs, and we’re in a position to promote it, then let’s do it. . . . This might deliver advantages not solely to the provinces, to Canada, to the European nations, and to the Indigenous folks. . . . It’s a win-win-win-win throughout the board, and we will’t miss the boat.”

Dale Swampy: “We’re . . . doing a North American marketing campaign with the Canadian Power Centre and transferring the message throughout North America that First Nations assist natural-resource developments, and that we’ve got to get an even bigger voice on the market, as a result of everyone believes that First Nations are in opposition to natural-resource improvement, which is flawed.”

Stephen Buffalo: ‘We are able to’t deny that there’s a world want for power in all varieties. The door is open now. I see the door open. Trade has made huge strides in opening the door, permitting First Nations to be a part of these alternatives. . . . The problem that we’ve got is proscribed capital, restricted fairness to take part.”

The webinar was moderated by Heather Exner-Pirot of the Indigenous Useful resource Community and the Macdonald-Laurier Institute.

Enterprise case for hydrogen? None

Prime Minister Trudeau says “there must be a enterprise case” for LNG exports from Canada’s East Coast to Europe.

Throwing frigid water on such exports, he’s as an alternative pushing hydrogen:

“We should look to assets like hydrogen which might and will likely be clear and renewable. We will be the dependable provider of unpolluted power a net-zero world wants.”

OK, so what’s the “enterprise case” that Ottawa sees and invokes for hydrogen exports?

There isn’t one.

Ottawa’s present reply: We should always ship extra pure fuel to the U.S., which then turns it into LNG and sells it to Europe. As Useful resource Works factors out, meaning promoting our fuel to the U.S. at $3 a unit, and the U.S. reselling it at $10. We lose billions.

There’s a enterprise case for Canadian LNG

This from the Alberta authorities’s Canadian Power Centre, which declared: “Prime Minister Trudeau’s skepticism is deceptive.” Our Alliance CEO, Karen Ogen-Toews, is quoted within the story, and so is Indigenous entrepreneur Chris Sankey.

The Canadian Power Centre additionally ran a billboard marketing campaign at three New York Metropolis areas, that includes Dale Swampy of the Nationwide Coalition of Chiefs on the significance of Canada’s power to reconciliation: http://bit.ly/3BVtTLd

And Mark Ruffalo is flawed (once more)

The Canadian Power Centre additionally wrote: “American actor Mark Ruffalo took one other uninformed swipe on the Coastal GasLink pipeline this week. . . . Ruffalo is flawed in regards to the undertaking’s environmental impression. His deceptive statements additionally ignore its broad assist by Indigenous communities and threaten their future prosperity.”

ALSO IN THE NEWS

• Ballot: Greater than seven in 10 Canadians see Canada’s LNG nearly as good for the world: http://ow.ly/L6gh50KTkpu
• Ottawa builds new Indigenous Information Framework into undertaking opinions and regulatory selections, together with LNG amenities. Information launch: http://ow.ly/lECv50KUvtt
• Haisla-led Cedar LNG seeks regulatory approval underneath new federal local weather guidelines: http://ow.ly/zu6450KPl69 (Warning: you may discover that is behind the Globe and Mail’s paywall.)
• FID for Woodfibre LNG seen as possible earlier than yr finish, so ‘Canada will likely be nicely on its solution to having a second #LNG export web site on its West Coast up and operating by 2027.’ http://ow.ly/P3FM50KRnyI
• China ships subsequent two pre-fabricated modules for the LNG Canada undertaking. http:ow.ly/pHpg50KLxTC
• Canada’s Pieridae Power in talks with authorities and TC Power about East Coast LNG undertaking: http://ow.ly/7jou50KQirB

DATES

• After internet hosting the massive neighborhood session in Terrace, Nation2Nation will likely be again with its Prince Rupert session Oct. 19-20. There are nonetheless areas left. Register at http://Nation2Nation.ca
• Registration is open for the twentieth annual BC Pure Sources Discussion board, Jan. 17-19 at Prince George: http://ow.ly/rKKq50KPCLz
• The seventh Indigenous Useful resource Alternatives Convention is scheduled for Feb. 28-March 1: https://www.bciroc.ca/
• The First Nation’s Main Initiatives Coalition has set its 2023 Values Pushed Financial system Convention for April 24-25 in Vancouver. Early-bird low cost ends Dec. 15. Register right here: ly/aKUX50KKKnh
• The Ahead Summit’s 2023 occasion is ready for Could 17-18, on the Gray Eagle Resort & On line casino close to Calgary. Registration: http://ow.ly/Q8ZV50K7FYb (Notice that there’s an Indigenous low cost.)

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