What if Indigenous Canadians owned Trans Mountain? GlobeDebate
. The group would finance it through Canada’s big banks, with the debt backed by oil-shipping contracts. First Nations from across Western Canada would be invited to join in. The plan is billed as Project Reconciliation.Project Reconciliation is vying against an effort led by the Western Indigenous Pipeline Group. That group is helmed by Chief Michael LeBourdais of the Whispering Pines/Clinton Indian Band, whose land in British Columbia’s central Interior is on the pipeline route. Mr.
But there is an array of views within Indigenous communities and between them, the same as politics anywhere. So while the Vancouver-area Tsleil-Waututh Nation lead a strong opposition to Trans Mountain, others, such as the Western Indigenous Pipeline Group and Project Reconciliation, see a future in the project.
Indigenous ownership was once before a key element of a major pipeline. The Mackenzie Valley natural-gas project was first proposed in the 1970s, but stalled on Indigenous questions. Its early-2000s revival happened in part because of a deal with the Aboriginal Pipeline Group, a partnership of First Nations for a one-third stake in the pipeline. Although the project was scuppered by a rapidly changing gas market, the idea of Indigenous partnership was prescient.
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