Guest column: Canada needs to set a new course with energy and minerals – First Nations LNG Alliance
This article appeared as a guest column in the Victoria Times Colonist newspaper
A commentary by the CEO of the First Nations LNG Alliance. She is an elected councillor of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation and a former elected chief.
By KAREN OGEN-TOEWS
For a while, we thought Ottawa might be beginning to understand the world of global energy.
That was last year, when Jonathan Wilkinson, then federal environment and climate change minister, spoke of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline running for 30-40 years, and funding some of Canada’s climate-change efforts.
But now Steven Guilbeault, green activist turned national environment minister, has dismissed calls for Canada to export more oil and gas to help other nations get off “dictator energy” from countries such as Russia.
