Our e-newsletter of 13 April 2023

Why Canada ought to export LNG

Indigenous leaders and vitality executives, in Ottawa on a mission with Power for a Safe Future (ESF), referred to as on G7 international locations (which embrace Canada) to prioritize Canadian LNG at their subsequent ministers’ assembly on the local weather, vitality, and surroundings.

• ESF chair Shannon Joseph: “Because the world seems for cleaner and extra inexpensive and dependable sources of vitality, our mates world wide . . . need to Canada to assist fill the hole.

 “Power for a Safe Future believes that we are able to, and we must always, leverage our vitality assets to concurrently present inexpensive vitality, but in addition to assist our allies in decreasing dependence on higher-emitting fuels like coal, and, most significantly, advancing financial improvement overseas and financial reconciliation in Canada.”

The group spoke with the Japanese ambassador, and French and German diplomats. Our Alliance chair, Haisla Chief Councillor Crystal Smith, and our Alliance CEO, Karen Ogen, had been amongst these took half.

• Chief Crystal: “We aren’t victims of improvement. More and more, we’re companions and even homeowners of main initiatives. My Nation is the proponent of an LNG challenge . . . Cedar LNG. Will probably be the most important majority First-Nations owned infrastructure challenge in Canadian historical past and the primary Indigenous-owned LNG export terminal on the earth. . . . Different nations are asking us for our assist, and the Haisla Nation has an answer for them.”
• Karen Ogen: “LNG improvement has supplied . . . alternatives to carry hundreds of Indigenous individuals and their communities out of inter-generational poverty. . . . The members of the First Nations LNG Alliance additionally acknowledge that many alternatives are being misplaced to vitality and local weather insurance policies which are lacking the massive image. That’s why now we have despatched letters to all of the members of the G7, together with Canada, calling on them to incorporate vitality, and LNG, on the agenda of their subsequent assembly.”

Chief Billy Morin of the Enoch Cree Nation in Alberta and managing director of Axxcelus Capital Advisory Companions, and John Desjarlais, govt director of the Indigenous Useful resource Community, additionally took half.

G7 ministers weaken assertion on LNG

An preliminary draft assertion ready for G7 local weather assembly turned public. In line with the draft, the ministers had been going to say that new upstream funding in pure fuel provide can be wanted to deal with vitality safety after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

“On this context, on this specific contingency, we acknowledge the necessity for obligatory upstream investments in LNG (liquefied pure fuel) and pure fuel in keeping with our local weather goals and commitments.”

Nonetheless, on April 5, the draft wording was as an alternative modified to: “We acknowledge that, primarily based on the IEA’s (Worldwide Power Company) analyses, there can be appreciable uncertainty for future demand of pure fuel and LNG and consequently there are dangers of provide and demand hole to be addressed.”

The brand new draft additionally altered the sooner language on LNG and fuel investments to say they’d be wanted to “bridge the hole in a way according to our local weather goals and commitments.”

And it added a line saying, “Moreover we’ll speed up the clear vitality transition via vitality financial savings and fuel demand reductions within the technique of decarbonization.”

UPDATE: Ultimately, the G7 international locations agreed to push for renewable vitality, however stopped wanting setting a deadline for phasing out coal, and left the door open for continued funding in fuel/LNG: https://bit.ly/41b6nnn

‘Save a Canada’ in emissions

A particular report from the Canadian Chamber of Commerce sees pure fuel as “greatest positioned to assist a decrease carbon vitality world” — and slams authorities for “conflicted public coverage” and “lack of decisiveness”  which have blocked or stalled LNG developments.

“Canada is failing to capitalize on its pure fuel deposits. This hurts Canada’s economic system, world popularity and allies, in addition to the worldwide surroundings since international locations in want of vitality usually select dirtier gasoline sources whose carbon will not be topic to a worth regime. All of this means that Canada must undertake a severe re-examination of its vitality insurance policies.”

The report continues with such factors as:

• “IHS Markit estimates that switching simply 20% of Asia’s many coal-fired energy vegetation to pure fuel would forestall an estimated 680 megatonnes (MT) of CO2 emissions yearly (IHS Markit, 2021). To place this in context, Canada’s annual emissions are 672 MT. In different phrases, switching simply 20% of Asia’s coal-fired energy vegetation would save the equal of ‘one Canada’ by way of annual emissions, whereas switching 40% would save “two Canadas”.
• “Canada’s LNG alternative is made potential largely by the constructive relationships constructed between First Nations and vitality corporations over the previous few a long time. As these partnerships develop and develop, the financial advantages flowing to First Nations and the broader Canadian economic system ought to enhance significantly.’

And the report concludes: “In LNG and the broader vitality and local weather economies, one factor is evident: the world wants extra Canada.”

 Welcome to new members

The First Nations LNG Alliance welcomes three affiliate members: Fortis BC, LNG Canada and TC Power. All assist First Nations rights and alternatives. Examine them right here: http://ow.ly/VhZT50NEGoY

Indigenous clean-energy information

• Malahat Nation on Vancouver Island to check photo voltaic panels embedded in sidewalks, roadways, parking heaps and different paved surfaces: http://ow.ly/45kI50NCNtO
• The Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nations on Vancouver Island are exploring wave-energy applied sciences that might hyperlink to their microgrid. Deadline is tomorrow, April 14. http://ow.ly/vPvs50NCQwt
• Public enter is invited, via tomorrow (April 14), on a Nova Scotia wind farm proposal backed by Sipekne’katik First Nation: http://ow.ly/RAcQ50NCPJk

ALSO IN THE NEWS

• Cedar LNG will produce lots of of jobs and tens of millions of {dollars} in income. And it marks the primary challenge of its sort in Canada that’s majority-owned by an Indigenous nation. http://ow.ly/fe7X50NGsiB
• Video: RCMP say a 2022 assault on a Coastal GasLink worksite was orchestrated by anarchistic outsiders. Police have recognized “greater than half a dozen suspects” and arrests may very well be “weeks away.” http://ow.ly/AXQS50NC96j
• Power executives push feds to make good on pledge to hurry up resource-project approvals: http://ow.ly/hV6150NBx9y
• Indigenous communities are more and more taking a number one function in essential oil and fuel initiatives.: http://bit.ly/40SRmq4
• Opinion: ‘The whims of politicians’ depart Canada on sidelines in world #LNG increase: ly/zrRY50NB7Ow
• Coastal GasLink pipeline 98% full in BC’s Peace area; and 84% over-all: http://ow.ly/GKNJ50NCiqB
• New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs blames PM Justin Trudeau after Repsol pulls plug on NB LNG challenge: http://ow.ly/RFhM50NFpBb

DATES

Our subsequent webinar comes up on Thursday April 20, at 10am Pacific. Registration now could be open, and free: http://ow.ly/jhr950NBs3J

OTHER DATES

April

• The Canadian Fuel Affiliation’s Power Nexus and annual technical convention, April 17-20, Calgary. Information/register: http://ow.ly/YJrI50NhrM1
• From the First Nations Main Initiatives Coalition, the Values Pushed Financial system Convention, April 24-25, Vancouver: http://ow.ly/rWEE50MnKe6

Could

• Canada Fuel and LNG Exhibition and Convention, Could September 11, Vancouver: http://ow.ly/YxcZ50LjFM1
• The Ahead Summit 2023, Could 17-18, Gray Eagle Resort & On line casino close to Calgary. Registration:http://ow.ly/Q8ZV50K7FYb (Be aware that there’s an Indigenous low cost.)
• Nation2Nation’s ‘She Leads’ girls’s gathering, Could 25-26, Smithers BC. Information/register: http://ow.ly/AFTx50NCaVX

June

July

September

October

2024

• The Worldwide Fuel Analysis Convention, Could 13-16. Our Karen Ogen is on the nationwide organizing committee. Convention web site: https://igrc2024.org/

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(Posted right here 16 April 2023)