K'uul Power

Northwest BC First Nations create K’uul (coming together as one) Power

Renewable Energy Transmission and Generation Infrastructure & Associated First Nation’s Development Opportunities
Between Prince George & the Coast

Vision

First Nations own and operate the renewable energy transmission and generation infrastructure that is the backbone of the decarbonized economy in northwest BC. Our communities and their domestic and international projects thrive with electrification as a critical success factor.

Mission

Work together for mutual gain and a sustainable future for our children.

Our Commitment to work together is based on a Collaboration & Communications Protocol that recognizes:

  1. As First Nations we each hold the inherent right of self-determination, self-government and title to our respective lands, territories, and resources, and continue to exercise our respective inherent authorities and jurisdictions. This is consistent with United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People and the Provincial Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People Act.

  2. We recognize the power of collaborative action between us, and that a coordinated and Nation-driven approach is required to address the need for effective information-sharing and decision-making for major infrastructure development and ownership in the decarbonized economy of the future.

  3. We support each other in having historic wrongs addressed and past agreements honored while we work together to build new infrastructure in the right way.

  4. We understand that renewable energy transmission and generation is instrumental to the development of a decarbonized economy throughout our territories and around the world.

  5. We know that the proactive construction of renewable energy transmission and generation capacity reinforces our individual and collective opportunities to develop sustainable projects on our lands to improve the economic and social conditions in our communities.

  6. We are committed to work together to lead other levels of government and the private sector into a decarbonized future where First Nations and other communities prosper while we mitigate and adapt to climate change for the benefit of future generations. 

Leaders of 11 First Nations have signed on to the Protocol so far including: Tsil kaz koh, Nee Tahi Bunh, Wet’suwet’en First Nation, Hereditary Chief Samooh of Birch House, Witset, Kitsumkalum, Kitselas, Nisga’a, Haisla, Nadleh Whuten and Nazko. We have been meeting together with representatives of 11 other First Nations for the past 9 months and have now formed K’uul Power as a non-profit corporation to support our ongoing collaboration. We welcome our neighbours to join us and remain open to collaboration with them whether they formally join or not. 

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