Among the parties in talks with Chevron for a possible stake in the Canadian LNG project are Petronas, the sources said
LNG Canada executive committee and Haisla Nation Council members following a walk-through of the Haisla Centre in May. Photo Cameron Orr
The units will only be for accommodating existing staff members
Gerry Leibel, Northern Sentinel, June 21, 2017
LNG Canada staff will this summer move into the recently completed Haisla Centre in Kitimat.
Haisla Nation Communications Co-ordinator Cameron Orr said LNG Canada holds a 10-year lease for the building, which was signed between the Haisla Nation Council and LNG Canada in 2015. Read the rest of this entry
by Yadullah Hussain, Financial Post, May 5, 2016
Royal Dutch Shell Plc. has cast doubts its liquefied natural gas export project in British Columbia will secure a final investment decision (FID) by the end of this year, further dashing the province ’s hopes of shipping LNG by 2020.
Shell’s LNG Canada in Kitimat is competing for funding dollars with two other company LNG projects, both in the United States, as well as with a chemicals plant in Pennsylvania, within the next 12 months, chief financial officer Simon Henry told investors during a conference call Wednesday. Read the rest of this entry
This rendering of the proposed project shows two of the LNG trains. (LNG Canada/flickr)
Joint venture is made up of Shell Canada, affiliates of PetroChina, Korea Gas and Mistubishi
By Laura Kane, The Canadian Press, Jan 6, 2016
A joint venture company led by Shell has obtained the first permit to build a liquefied natural gas export facility in northern British Columbia, but the company has yet to make a final commitment to go ahead with the project. Read the rest of this entry
No Enbridge, art by Andy Everson, Kwakwaka’wakw.
By Peter O’Neil, Vancouver Sun,
Members of Haisla basketball team wear black “No Enbridge” t-shirts.
Mychaylo Prystupa, Vancouver Observer, April 9th, 2014
In an increasingly explosive political climate in the Kitimat area over a controversial vote on the Northern Gateway pipeline, the Mayor of Kitimat was flash mobbed by a group of mostly First Nations people, donning “No Enbridge” shirts at a Haisla girls basketball championship on Sunday.
Nathan VanderKlippe, The Globe and Mail, Dec. 05 2012
Haisla band council chief Ellis Ross (centre).
The Haisla First Nation has pulled out of an organization that has ardently fought the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline and called for greener practices in the export of natural gas.
The Haisla said they have withdrawn from Coastal First Nations, amid a debate among aboriginal groups about the environmental impact of West Coast industrial development that has now blown out into the open. The move comes as the Haisla shift their position on oil exports from their traditional territory, which some see as evidence that opposition to Gateway is beginning to wane. Read the rest of this entry
How First Nations Are Gearing Up for Legal Battle Against Gateway
Native groups likely to cite evidence they weren’t consulted as required by Supreme Court decisions
By Geoff Dembicki, January 30, 2012, TheTyee.ca
On Sept. 28, 2011, Enbridge appears to have made an extraordinary offer of peace to several of its most dedicated opponents.
The scene was a Coastal First Nations board meeting on Granville Street in downtown Vancouver. That alliance of native communities nestled in coves and inlets along B.C.’s jagged north coast had agreed to host Enbridge CEO Pat Daniel and three other senior company officials.
Relations between the Calgary-based pipeline giant and Coastal First Nations leaders were not exactly warm. Read the rest of this entry
