A pioneering clean energy project that will harness ocean thermal energy to heat a new First Nations residential community will receive $400,000 from the B.C. government's First Nations Clean Energy Business Fund.

Mike Gouchie knows the music business - and now he knows the LNG pipeline industry as well.

As part of B.C.'s Skills for Jobs Blueprint, government will invest up to $30 million over the next three years for new Aboriginal skills-training projects and partnerships.

The Tsilhqot'in Nation and the Province are taking practical steps in the complex process of transferring Aboriginal Title lands to Tsilhqot'in management, benefit and control following the Supreme Court of Canada decision on Aboriginal Title last June.

For 21-year-old Daniel Carpenter, trades training is opening up a new world of opportunity. Daniel, who is a member of the Heiltsuk First Nation, is just starting a new job as an apprentice welder at the Seaspan shipyards in North Vancouver.

The Moricetown Band has reached agreements for two proposed natural gas pipeline projects to become partners in B.C.’s LNG industry.