How Canada’s Haisla became the world’s first Indigenous LNG owners – BNN Bloomberg
September 19, 2025
KITIMAT — When Maureen Nyce, the new chief of the Haisla First Nation, donned a hard hat and safety vest for an August visit to the site of the Cedar LNG pipeline, she did so not as a visiting dignitary or cultural emissary – but as an owner.
The Haisla – who have occupied territory on Canada’s Northwest coast for 9,000 years – own a 50.1 per cent equity stake in the US$4-billion Cedar LNG export project near the town of Kitimat, British Columbia. Calgary-based Pembina Pipeline owns the remainder.
The world’s first majority-Indigenous-owned LNG project, expected to be operational in 2028, could drastically change the future of Nyce’s people and serves as a test case for Canada, which has just started exporting LNG to Asia and is trying to reduce export reliance on the United States.
