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EDMONTON- The Alberta government is spending $23.4 million to convince Canadians why a major oil pipeline project is needed. The marketing campaign, Keep Canada Working, is aimed at getting people to support the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. The project would triple the amount of oil that flows from Alberta to ...
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North Dakota leaders unveil oil tax sharing deal with tribe
By James MacPherson THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BISMARCK, N.D.- North Dakota Republican legislative leaders unveiled a bill Thursday that aims to stop a longstanding disagreement over shared revenues on an oil-rich American Indian reservation in the state. The bill sponsored by GOP Sen. Jordan Kannianen and the party’s Senate and House majority ...
Read More »Wait until Trans Mountain pipe built before buying in, Indigenous investors told
CALGARY- The consultant who helped broker a $545-million investment by two northern Alberta Indigenous communities in a new Suncor Energy Inc. storage tank farm says similar stakes in the Trans Mountain pipeline shouldn’t take place until after its expansion is built. Barrie Robb, a principal with Fivars Consulting Ltd. of ...
Read More »Indigenous energy summit includes session on pipeline ownership options
CALGARY-First Nations that produce oil and gas in Canada will hear presentations Wednesday at the Indigenous Energy Summit on how they might take ownership of major energy projects, including the Trans Mountain pipeline. Steven Saddleback of the Indian Resource Council says a session will feature presentations on financing models that ...
Read More »Report from Manitoba chiefs says Indigenous contribution to economy in billions
By Kelly Geraldine Malone THE CANADIAN PRESS WINNIPEG- Canada’s Indigenous-Crown relations minister says a report showing Indigenous people in Manitoba contributed billions of dollars to the economy in one year will help tackle racist stereotypes. The report, which assessed the impact of the Indigenous economy in the province for the ...
Read More »Talks continue to break impasse over pipeline construction in northern B.C.
SMITHERS, B.C. – A meeting is underway between RCMP and hereditary chiefs of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation over the details of a tentative agreement that would allow Coastal GasLink the access it needs to a pipeline work site in northern British Columbia. On Thursday, hereditary chiefs told residents and supporters ...
Read More »Yukon woman’s role in Klondike gold rush to be honoured at Toronto ceremony
WHITEHORSE- An Indigenous woman is being inducted into the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame for the first time. Kate Carmack of Yukon will be recognized as one of the handful of prospectors whose discovery of placer gold set off what the hall of fame describes as “one of the world’s ...
Read More »Northwestern B.C. First Nation expects RCMP to enforce injunction
HOUSTON, B.C.- Members of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation in northwestern British Columbia expect RCMP may serve an injunction at a protest camp on a remote forest service road southwest of Houston within hours. The camp was established almost 10 years ago as a checkpoint to manage entry to traditional territories, ...
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