NWT-based First Nation wants in on LNG but BC is giving the cold … – The Globe and Mail
Nov. 30 2014
A First Nations community in the northeast corner of British Columbia wants to be dealt in on a promised liquefied natural gas bonanza. This is a Clark government photo-op in the making – except the province won’t talk to the Acho Dene Koe.
The 750 members of the Acho Dene Koe have an aboriginal land claim that includes a significant piece of B.C. real estate – the gas fields in the Horn River and Liard Basins that are critical to the future of LNG development on the coast.
Almost 13 years ago, their claim was accepted by the B.C. Treaty Commission. Even the federal government – famous for foot-dragging at the treaty table in British Columbia – wants to get on with this. But the province is not there.
