Pipelines, energy and natural resources

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Canada’s Energy Crossroads: Time to Reclaim Our Place as a Global Energy Power | BOE Report

For decades, Canada has stood at the crossroads of potential and hesitation. We are blessed with some of the largest oil and natural gas reserves on the planet—abundant, stable, and developed under some of the world’s most stringent environmental and labor standards. Yet, despite this enviable...

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Pipeline owner South Bow has ambitions to double size through M&A

Calgary-based company aims to be valued at $30-billion or more in five years

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Changing perspectives...

One Indigenous Community's Mining Windfall Is Another’s Worry | The Tyee

As the Tahltan benefit from Red Chris and other critical metal plays, 14 Alaskan nations are pushing back.

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Ten years ago, members of the Tahltan nation in northern British Columbia were blockading roads to prevent the opening of the Red Chris copper mine, concerned about its potential environmental impacts. Today, hundreds of Tahltan work at the mine, their communities reap millions of dollars in grants and royalties from it, their corporate arm does big business with it, and their government has a powerful voice in its future.

For the Tahltan, it seems like a success story, a case study in asserting Indigenous rights and winning concrete benefits from extractive industries operating on their traditional lands.


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But as the rush for critical metals turbocharges demand for copper, that same mine, and several others proposed for Tahltan territory, might pose serious risks for other Indigenous groups across the border in Alaska.

It’s an example of how, even in places where Indigenous peoples have won a degree of power, the costs and the rewards of the critical metals rush still aren’t being spread around equally.

 

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