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Nikki Skuce
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Northerner. Activist. Building a new nest here...
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New Major Projects Include Dodgy BC LNG Project

Oxford study forecasts LNG oversupply/low prices after 2030.

That's why the @NLGNisgaaNation's Ksi Lisims project should NOT be fast-tracked by @MarkJCarney + @timhodgsonmt.

No biz case = no taxpayer $$.
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New Major Projects Include Dodgy BC LNG Project
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November 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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West Coast has signed on to the North Coast Protection Declaration. We urge Canada to uphold the tanker ban. Protecting the North Coast is not an item for negotiation—it's national responsibility and a quantifiable investment in Canada’s treasured marine environment and economic prosperity. #bcpoli
North Coast Protection | Coastal First Nations
Get in touch with CFN to learn more about our initiatives, partnerships, and how you can support sustainable development and conservation efforts.
coastalfirstnations.ca
November 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Canada is investing billions of dollars to challenge China’s grip on rare earths essential for modern technologies. As it races to build a domestic supply chain, refining minerals is where the money is, reports Christopher Pollon www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/06/a...
Can Canada pivot to exploit a rush on rare earths?
Canada is investing billions of dollars to challenge China’s grip on rare earths and other critical minerals essential for modern technologies. As Canada races to build its own supply chain, refining ...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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📰 You can read more about the toxic legacy of gold mining from @nikkiskuce.bsky.social in Northword magazine’s Fall 2025 edition.

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October 27, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Unclear to me why @mark-carney.bsky.social doesn’t just make Pierre Poillievre his Deputy PM with all the tax cuts and corporate catering. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
Carney earmarks billions in new spending to counter U.S. protectionism
Federal budget projects $78.3-billion deficit and sets out tax incentives, public service cuts
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Waiting for what I’m expecting to be a corporate, brutal budget with no environmental care or climate initiatives.
kermit the frog is holding his hand to his mouth and looking surprised .
ALT: kermit the frog is holding his hand to his mouth and looking surprised .
media.tenor.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:02 PM
For such a bully, Trump is so thin skinned and pathetic.
October 24, 2025 at 9:15 PM
This is brutal: "The result is that large Canadian corporations have unprecedented access to intelligence collected by Canada’s spy agency." Canada really is a Petrostate. #cdnpoli #bcpoli

thenarwhal.ca/tc-energy-cs...
TC Energy lobbied Canada’s spy agency to share intelligence | The Narwhal
Pipeline giant TC Energy urged CSIS to brief Canada’s biggest companies on security threats — raising concerns about surveillance
thenarwhal.ca
October 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Reposted by Nikki Skuce
Critical minerals have long been touted as the key to the global energy transition because they’re used in everything from EV batteries to solar panels and wind turbines.

They’re also essential to the production of military equipment.

@amandafollett.bsky.social reports. #uspoli #bcpoli
Why Is the US War Department Buying into a BC Mining Company? | The Tyee
Global instability is creating a rush for critical minerals, which are useful for green energy. And the military.
thetyee.ca
October 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM
“I think it’s important to know if the mine in your backyard is going to help dump bombs on Gaza or if it’s going to help with an electric battery in your kid’s school bus,” said Skuce. #bcpoli #cdnpoli #mining thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...
Why Is the US War Department Buying into a BC Mining Company? | The Tyee
Global instability is creating a rush for critical minerals, which are useful for green energy. And the military.
thetyee.ca
October 16, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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I was pleasantly surprised that a recent episode of CBC's Ideas "So .... Who wants a pipeline" asked which IPCC scenario / global temperature they were aiming for. Jackie Forrest said 2.6C. I wish all stakeholders, politicians and yes, citizens were asked that question. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...
© CBC/Radio-Canada 2025. All rights reserved.
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October 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Can someone please tell me why no media are asking about the NW pipeline within the context of a climate crisis? Did we all just throw the reality out the window because Trump did? It's infuriating that the line of questioning is back to nationally skewed polling and bullshit economics. Ugh #bcpoli
October 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
So criminal that they know they'll keep polluting beyond acceptable limits and these fines are just the cost of doing business for them... www.biv.com/news/environ...
B.C. coal giant penalized millions for treatment delays, 171 pollution breaches
EVR Operations Limited — formally Teck Coal Limited — was penalized more than $3.6 million after failing to curb nitrate and selenium pollution
www.biv.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
In anticipation of what @daniellesmithab.bsky.social might be announcing today, I thought that I'd wear some old swag and remind @mark-carney.bsky.social that nothing has changed regarding the risks and consequences in NW BC. We're still here-and we still say no to an oil pipeline & tankers #cdnpoli
October 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Great to have the opportunity to speak alongside health professionals in Smithers demanding @mark-carney.bsky.social #DrawtheLine and take action on climate change and invest in clean water, healthy communities and a future for our kids. #stopPRGT #upholdTankerBan
September 20, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Always grateful for Haida's stance vs dumb fossil fuel projects:"CHN maintains our strong opposition to any proposed oil tankers & strongly supports the federal gov't continuing to uphold the ban on oil tankers through the North Coast Oil Tanker Moratorium Act"
www.haidanation.ca/public-notic...
Official Response to Canada and BC's approval of Ksi Lisims LNG project through Haida Territorial Waters — Council of the Haida Nation
September 17, 2025 Summary On September 15, 2025, Canada and BC both released their decision to approve the proposed Ksi Lisims LNG project. If constructed, the Ksi Lisims LNG Project would ...
www.haidanation.ca
September 17, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I just don't know how anyone in the BC NDP can wake up and look at the kids in their life and be proud of approving a fossil fuel project in 2025. Brutal @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social
Ksi Lisims LNG was pitched as a net-zero project. But the B.C. government’s approval says it will likely burn natural gas for years, causing “significant adverse effects” on emissions. Critics warn the project undermines the province’s climate goals. thenarwhal.ca/ksi-lisims-l...
The climate costs of B.C.’s Ksi Lisims LNG | The Narwhal
Ksi Lisims LNG will initially burn fossil fuels to power its operations in B.C., resulting in ‘significant adverse effects’ for the climate
thenarwhal.ca
September 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Great to see this leadership and advocacy from regional health professionals. Ironic that @adriandix.bsky.social was previously the health minister and is now pushing fossil fuel projects thru while ignoring health risks... #bcpoli
thetyee.ca/News/2025/09...
Halt LNG Expansion Until Health Risks Studied, Say Doctors | The Tyee
First Nations leaders and health professionals say people are getting sick, and BC needs to hit pause.
thetyee.ca
September 15, 2025 at 7:43 PM
“Environmental assessments are a planning tool and way to bring in science and local knowledge to best evaluate risks and mitigate impacts,” Skuce argued.

“Avoiding them doesn’t result in British Columbia having a responsible mining sector.” #bcpoli #mining
thenarwhal.ca/mount-polley...
What B.C.'s Mount Polley mine expansion means | The Narwhal
B.C. has consented to Mount Polley expanding the site of one of the province’s worst mining disasters. Xatśūll First Nation is challenging the decision in court
thenarwhal.ca
September 7, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I'm so glad @rachelgilmore.bsky.social covered this as I was shocked to hear on CBC that the Liberals had invited Project 2025 architect. WTF?! #cdnpoli Liberals Call Out Carney for Inviting Trump Insider via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
Liberals Call Out Carney for Inviting Trump Insider | The Tyee
‘Mind-boggling,’ says a former top Trudeau adviser, echoing outrage from two unnamed, sitting Liberal MPs.
thetyee.ca
September 5, 2025 at 6:53 PM
[W]hen governments are ramming through laws that sideline Indigenous rights and environmental protections, BC is putting a disgraced policing unit in charge of enforcing them—turning struggles for Indigenous sovereignty & climate justice into criminal matters. #bcpoli
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Controversial B.C. RCMP unit to police opposition to fast-tracked resource projects ⋆ The Breach
A widely-criticized police unit is participating in provincial committees coordinating surveillance and policing of protest against major resource projects—including those fast-tracked under new legis...
breachmedia.ca
September 3, 2025 at 7:45 PM
The repercussions for the largest mine disaster in BC is permit after permit, green light after green light. More rigorous oversight and review are needed for expansions to the same dam that breached, was patched up and filled again. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/08/n...
Court clears way for raise of Mount Polley tailings dam despite Indigenous opposition
The four-metre raise was labelled "comparatively modest" by the presiding justice in a decision that has already drawn the condemnation of Indigenous leaders.
www.nationalobserver.com
August 8, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Mount Polley will be allowed to continue expanding its tailings facility, after a court challenge by the Xatśūll First Nation failed.

The nation said it's reviewing the decision to allow the dam, which failed catastrophically in 2014, to hold more mine waste. @thetyee.ca
thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...
Mount Polley Can Continue Tailings Expansion, BC Supreme Court Says | The Tyee
Xatśūll First Nation had applied to stop construction on the project.
thetyee.ca
August 6, 2025 at 10:08 PM