Canada's natives are getting damned aggressive . . . .

Not just in throwing around terms like "mass grave" and "genocide" and "criminal actions" and demanding major $ compensation (again) but now a whole new demand. . .

Just a little reminder: Trudeau bought the Trans Mountain pipeline with the tax dollars of all Canadian tax payers. $11.9 Billion of our money to finish its construction. Guess who wants that pipeline as a 'gift' to them?
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iPolitics - Jun 9, 2021

Indigenous group wants full ownership of Trans Mountain

The Lead

Project Reconciliation, a Canadian Indigenous group, is seeking a full ownership stake in the Trans Mountain oil pipeline, according to the group’s new chairman.

The group is among several Indigenous organizations that formed more than two years ago to seek a stake in Canada’s only oil-pipeline system that delivers crude oil from Alberta to the Pacific Coast. Until now, Project Reconciliation had sought no more than a 51 per cent stake. Now it’s seeking 75 per cent, with the option to eventually own 100 per cent of the pipeline.

“We are hopeful that we can get our position across,” Robert Morin, the group’s chairman, told Bloomberg. The group has said it has funding lined up for the purchase, without revealing its financing source.

The group wants to use pipeline revenue to establish a sovereign wealth fund to support Indigenous communities, which are often poor. Other Indigenous groups, including some in British Columbia, see the project as a threat to the environment and have sought to block it. The federal government bought Trans Mountain from Kinder Morgan for $4.5 billion in 2018 after the company threatened to scrap the line’s expansion in the face of fierce environmental opposition.

Alberta’s oilsands industry badly needs more conduits to export its crude, and many hope that Indigenous participation will help quell objections to the project. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has said it will sell its ownership once the expansion is completed, and is open to Indigenous participation. The government is currently engaged in consultations with First Nation communities. Bloomberg has the full story.
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In Canada

Pembina Pipeline says it will buy a 50 per cent stake in the proposed Cedar LNG Project to develop a floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in British Columbia, in partnership with the Haisla Nation. Pembina plans to invest about $90 million in Cedar LNG over the next two years, including costs to acquire its interest in the project and developmental costs.

Cedar LNG, which will have an annual LNG capacity of about three million tonnes, lies within the traditional territory of the Haisla Nation and will provide LNG to Asia-Pacific markets.

The estimated gross cost cost of Cedar LNG is $2.4 billion, and the final investment decision is expected in 2023. Reuters has more details.

Northern Affairs Minister Dan Vandal has met with representatives of the the Nuluujaat Land Guardians, the group that blockaded the airstrip at Baffinland Iron Mines’ Mary River mine in Nunavut to protest the mine’s proposed expansion.

“Guardians spoke about the strengths and values of their communities, and land-based economic options for current and future generations of north Baffin residents,” reads a statement from the group. They want Vandal to understand “the choices and preferences of residents who do not wish to be involved in mining.”

The Nunavut Impact Review Board is currently assessing the expansion, which opponents believe will have a negative effect on the surrounding environment. Nunatsiaq News has the full story.

Finally, Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne and Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan will announce on Wednesday a project to create net-zero-emissions hydrogen energy. They’ll be joined by Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and Don Iverson, the mayor of Edmonton.

Canadian Crude Index was trading at US$55.44 and Western Canadian Select was going for US$56.15 this morning at 8:57 a.m.