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"How many of you know who I am as a person? And where I come from under our modern treaty agreements?"

It's a question Andrew Robinson, CEO of the Nisga'a Lisims Government, asks when a company walks in to pitch itself as a partner on Ksi Lisims LNG. Most of the companies arriving know the project. Far fewer know the Nation they're pitching to, what it has built under a modern treaty, or what being a real partner would involve.

Robinson isn't the only Indigenous leader being approached like this. Canada is in the middle of the largest energy and infrastructure build-out in a generation, and in every case, Indigenous Nations are at the centre of the table. Building relationships by showing up before there’s a deal on the table, listening to what communities need, and following through is required, and it's how CSV has approached its work with Indigenous communities near its facilities in Alberta.

At the Global Energy Show in Calgary, Robinson, Chana Martineau of the Alberta Indigenous Opportunities Corporation, Karen Restoule of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, Chief Valerie Askoty of Prophet River First Nation, and Maureen Nyce of the Haisla Nation, whose Cedar LNG project is the world's first majority Indigenous-owned LNG facility, described what real partnership will need to look like on the projects that come next, and what most companies still get wrong before they even sit down.

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Read the full piece by Sarah Coleman in Rooted, with comments from Andrew Robinson, Chana Martineau, Karen Restoule, Chief Valerie Askoty, Maureen Nyce, Honourable Rajan Sawhney, Stephen Buffalo, and Mike Crawford: https://www.csvmidstream.com/rooted/inside-the-conversation-indigenous-leaders-want-energy-companies-to-have-about-canadas-energy-future/