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Wherever he lived, John attended the school on reserve, and was immersed in local language and culture. “My education and introduction to Aboriginal peoples was really positive,” John explains. Later, as a cop — first with the Calgary police, then the RCMP — John was arguably a natural to manage Aboriginal policing.as advisers by Petro-Canada to deal with issues like corruption, human rights and how to engage with locals.
There’s Kitimat, where Encana proposes a diluent import terminal. That notion gets moth-balled and the project site is purchased by a Shell-led consortium interested in building an LNG export terminal. John is retained, sequentially, by Encana then Shell, to help build positive relations with the local Haisla Nation. And there’s Prince Rupert, where Pembina builds a propane terminal and John is hired to train and employ locals.
The Cedar LNG offshore floating platform is proposed to be located on the Douglas Channel, eight kilometres southwest of Kitimat town centre and not far from the site of LNG Canada’s onshore LNG export facility, now under construction. And, very importantly, the Haisla Nation have had the opportunity to observe first-hand Pembina’s approach to investing in projects in partnership with First Nations on the West Coast.
Love him or loathe him, U.S. President Joe Biden seems set on rebuilding America’s critical infrastructure, all in the guise of a clean energy moonshot. Canada gets to play in the sandbox, including assembling electric vehicles in southern Ontario, because of our friend-shoring arrangement. But green energy requires a different kind of harvesting of the land — including the mining of critical minerals — that some First Nations in northern Ontario do not embrace.
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