From: brewnoser2@gmail.com   
      
   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.   
      
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