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Embassy
News Release |
December
14, 2005 |
Steve
Kakfwi has been a busy man in the two years since he left
politics following a prominent career as an MLA, minister
and finally premier in the Northwest Territories. |
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| Kakfwi
Demands Revenue |
Petroleum News
Canadian – March 2005 |
| Stephen Kakfwi,
a former Northwest Territories premier and now chief negotiator
for the Sahtu, has been adamant that a C$7 billion pipeline
will not be allowed to cross aboriginal land and “face
the prospect we will be as poor as we are today.”
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| Prime
Minister announces appointments to the National Round
Table on the Environment and the Economy |
February 16,
2005, Ottawa
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| Prime Minister
Paul Martin today announced the appointments of Elyse
Allan, Alan F. Amey, Katherine M. Bergman, Richard Drouin,
Stephen Kakfwi, David Kerr, Manon Laporte, Audrey McLaughlin,
Dee Parkinson-Marcoux, Darren Allan Riggs, Robert Schad
and Sheila Watt-Cloutier as members of the National Round
Table on the Environment and the Economy... |
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| Petroleum
News Canadian |
April 2005 |
| It’s easy
to reach a conclusion that the Mackenzie Gas Project has
been frozen in time as squabbling and court actions continue
between the Deh Cho First Nations and the Canadian government.
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| Gas
pipeline shutdown 'a real option' Mackenzie Valley warning:
Aboriginal firm and negotiator say window is closing |
APEX
Resources Group Release March, 2005 |
| CALGARY - Two
key players in the $7-billion Mackenzie natural gas pipeline
project warned yesterday that time is running out to save
the massive venture. Bob Reid, president of the Aboriginal
Pipeline Group, said the project's partners have set a
six-to-eight-week window to settle key agreements with
aboriginals and the federal government, after which shutting
down the project is "a real option. |
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| WWF-CANADA
WANTS CONSERVATION FIRST FOR MACKENZIE VALLEY |
Toronto:
September 29, 2004 |
| Headlined by
a former Prime Minister and a former Premier of the Northwest
Territories, World Wildlife Fund Canada (WWF-Canada) held
a press conference on Parliament Hill today to express
its strong expectation that the federal government must
commit to sustainable development and conservation in
the Northwest Territories’ Mackenzie Valley. |
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| STEPHEN KAKFWI
PRAISES PROTECTED AREAS STRATEGY |
Yellowknife:
March 01, 2004 |
| Former Northwest
Territories Premier Stephen Kakfwi today released a report
on his review of the Northwest Territories Protected Areas
Strategy (NWT-PAS), praising its use as a tool for communities
in the north to find an effective long-term balance between
the benefits of economic development, and the protection
of culturally and environmentally significant lands. |
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