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By Adam Berls

natural resources forum

‘Canadian LNG is Indigenous LNG’: Haisla Chief

Jan 18, 2024 | 2:47 PM

PRINCE GEORGE — Liquified natural gas or LNG is a growing and powerful industry in BC and a panel at the Natural Resources Forum discussed the importance of LNG and Indigenous involvement.

For many years, LNG has been cited as the way of the future and right now, the industry is booming, with many Northern communities benefitting from the opportunities that LNG has provided. Chief Crystal Smith of the Haisla Nation says that we need to support our LNG Industry here in BC.

Cedar LNG became Canada’s first Indigenous majority-owned LNG facility to receive environmental assessment certificate from the province. It is a proposed floating LNG facility in Kitimat, British Columbia, within the traditional territory of the Haisla Nation.

Chief Crystal Smith spoke about the opportunities that projects like Cedar LNG can provide for the people in her community.

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“We can train our people with the skills needed to secure well-paying families, supporting jobs on Cedar LNG and other projects. We can build critical community infrastructure like our new health center and our youth center in the Territory. And something I am profoundly impacted by is our ability to fund programs that reconnect our people to their culture and our language, a language that virtually disappeared with my generation. We are reigniting our potential through culture and language, and that is perhaps the most powerful thing of all.” -Chief Crystal Smith of the Haisla Nation

Cedar LNG aims to be one of the lowest carbon intensity LNG facilities in the world and a final investment decision is expected this year.

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