Cast a critical eye to attempts to link fossil fuel expansion to Indigenous well-being

Some Indigenous people with previous grassroots legitimacy have become unwitting spokespersons for the extractive economy, contrary to their peoples’ responsibilities to the lands, waters, and the future.

The methane/LNG industry is cloaking its expansion plans in a garment of Indigeneity, trying to extend the fossil fuel industry's shelf-life for a decade or two, write Warren Bell and Ojistoh Horn.Unsplash photograph by Eelco Böhtlingk

Opinion

BY WARREN BELL, OJISTOH HORN

August 28, 2023

There’s an offensive fossil fuel industry public relations campaign afoot. It converts expansion of the “natural gas” industry—namely liquefied natural gas, or LNG—into so-called "economic reconciliation" with Indigenous Peoples. How that is done—wiping out 250 y...

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