New building promises great economic opportunities for Lheidli T’enneh First Nation

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As the business side of Lheidli T’enneh First Nation’s operations, this new building marks a literal and metaphoric separation of business and governance, as Tano T’enneh formerly operated out of the Brunswick Street Lheidli T’enneh band office. It’s a move that Lheidli T’enneh Councillor Crystal Gibbs is happy to see.

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“When Tano is successful, obviously that flows through to Lheidli. It improves our overall living, it improves our access to education, we’re able to pay for more education — the band is government funded — we are able to build our own source revenue up to provide more housing to our membership,” Gibbs said.

“From the governance perspective, for every business proponent to come to Chief and Council is pretty time consuming, and I think it eliminates that. It streamlines it so these proponents can come to Tano and things progress and move faster. It just expands what we can do and the time that it takes to do so,” Gibbs added.

In the past year, Tano T’enneh has doubled its assets and investments, which Salter says is just the start of more great economic opportunities to come.

“We expect that in the next few years there will be major projects coming online, like our wind project, like the NCTL (North Coast Transmission Line) project with BC hydro, like the Sunrise expansion project. That will be growing wealth for Lheidli and it’s members,” Salter said.

While Tano T’enneh is separate from Lheidli T’enneh’s governance and those operations, Salter adds “the whole idea” is to build the Nation’s economy and wealth, saying it is “for the members, by the members.”