LNG Workshop in PG Today
Prince George, B.C. – A Liquefied Natural Gas Environmental Stewardship Initiative workshop is being held in Prince George today (Coast Inn of the North).
It will include representatives from First Nations involved in LNG negotiations, along with cross-government and industry participation.
The initiative was announced last May at the International LNG in B.C. Conference and offers participants the opportunity to identify projects, priorities and management structure of the initiative.
Victoria says it’s one instrument the province and First Nations will be using to incorporate Aboriginal values into resource management decisions.
“These workshops are an important step with First Nations so we can establish environmental legacies with a shared vision,” says John Rustad, Minister of Aboriginal Relations & Reconciliation.
Identical workshops will be held September 15 in Prince Rupert (The Crest Hotel) and Smithers September 16 (Hudson Bay Lodge).
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There is a plant being built in Portland to export propane produced from natural gas produced in canada. Tacoma is getting some sort of plant built as well. Expensive plants these are with the gas coming from canada. All we seem to hear about in canada is just talk and hot air.
I call it the pipe dream. Christy Clark’s way of selling our jobs to Alberta.
Pipe dream? Tell that to Kitimat.
We might get a couple of LNG plants in the next 10/15 years but that’s about it.
Havent heard of anyone getting a contract to sell this gas. Without a 30 year contract no LNG plant will go forward.
Maybe the First Nations at this summit can talk to their brothers in Hazelton, who have vowed not to let one pipeline through their territory, be it LNG or oil. They sit right on the Pacific Trails pipeline, the Northern Gateway and almost all of the other proposed lines.Until they agree, all this talk is just smoke and mirrors with no jobs and no contracts.
This is a bonanza for these bands. Thanks to Supreme Court rulings, they may actually own these lands fee simple. So vast tracks of land, whose boundaries are unkown, could be granted the rights of fee simple ownership.
Game changer.
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