Canada’s Gas Brings Indigenous People New Money, and Old Worries - The New York Times

New export terminals on Indigenous land have reignited a generations-old debate over identity and environmental stewardship. New export terminals on Indigenous land have reignited a generations-old debate over identity and environmental stewardship. A Haisla event sponsored recently by the gas industry. The Haisla own a major terminal that soon will start exporting to Asia. Credit... Supported by By Max Bearak Photographs and Video by Pat Kane Max Bearak and Pat Kane reported from Haisla, Gitxsan and Nisga’a traditional lands in Western Canada. With her hair pulled back into a tight ponytail, her arms and legs covered with 20 tattoos, and her compact frame fitted out in athleisure, Crystal Smith, the elected chief of the Haisla people, looked more like the hometown basketball star she once was than the fossil fuel exporter she’s about to become. Ms. Smith, 45, lives in an apartment that overlooks a nearly 100-mile-long inlet — a fjord, really — whose densely forested shores the Haisla

New export terminals on Indigenous land have reignited a generations-old debate over identity and environmental stewardship. New export terminals on Indigenous land have reignited a generations-old debate over identity and environmental stewardship. A Haisla event sponsored recently by the gas industry. The Haisla own a major terminal that soon will start exporting to Asia. Credit... Supported by By Max Bearak Photographs and Video by Pat Kane Max Bearak and Pat Kane reported from Haisla, Gitxsan and Nisga’a traditional lands in Western Canada. With her hair pulled back into a tight ponytail,