Ways to Participate
Ways to Participate
The Ministry and First Nations Energy and Mining Council warmly encourage First Nations rights holders and organizations to participate in the ICEO engagement to:
- collaborate on ways to advance First Nations’ interests and participation in B.C.’s clean energy sector, including, but not limited to, the electricity sub-sector; and
- seek to align BC’s strategic clean energy policies and legislation with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Current Engagement
Input from the March 2022 workshops was used to jointly develop three Engagement Tables to provide a venue for dialogue on priority topics:
- Electricity Table
- Hydrogen and Renewable Natural Gas Market Opportunities Table
- Legislative Standing Table
Upcoming Events
January 17-18, 2023 – First Nations Energy Summit
January 31, 2023 – Hydrogen 101 Virtual Workshop
Past Engagement
November 22, 2022 – Information Booth at the CleanBC: Roadmap to 2030 in Richmond
November 29-30, 2022 – Information Booth at B.C. Cabinet and First Nation’s Leaders’ Gathering in Vancouver
March 2022 – Two virtual regional workshops to gather feedback from First Nations rights holders and organizations on issues, policies to be discussed under the ICEO engagement, and the order of priority in which they should be discussed. FNEMC and EMLI used this develop three Engagement Tables.
Email your comments and feedback to ICEO@gov.bc.ca.
Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that the B.C. Public Service carries out its work on the territories of 204 First Nations communities across B.C., each with unique cultures, languages, legal traditions and relationships to these lands and waters. We also respectfully acknowledge and honour the Métis and Inuit people living in B.C.
Indigenous Clean Energy Opportunities (ICEO)
This initiative is a collaboration between First Nations Leadership Council, BC First Nations Energy and Mining Council and Ministry of Energy, Mines and Low Carbon Innovation.
Contact ICEO: ICEO@gov.bc.ca