Adam Olsen

One of the sternest critics of the Malahat/Steelhead LNG project is Adam Olsen, a member of Tsartlip First Nation and the interim-leader of the BC Green Party.

“I grew up fishing next Bamberton and on the docks in Brentwood and I love the Saanich Inlet,” he told an LNG information meeting at Shawnigan Lake community hall in early December.

But he laid most of the blame at the door of Steelhead. “A good partner would understand our laws,” he said of the five Saanich tribes and Douglas treaty rights. “Steelhead pretended all they had to speak to was one of five villages.”

“These are some of the most complex relationships in BC… It’s on Steelhead,” he said of the LNG announcement last fall. “It makes me very sad that they made an announcement with no elected chief and council in place at Malahat Nation. That was their decision and it speaks to their corporate culture.”