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May 25, 2016 SFU Harbor Centre PresentationChief Patrick MichellKanaka Bar Indian Band

“What we do to the lands, we do to ourselves.”

The Indigenous People of CanadaAll diverse with distinct languages, culture and history.

Canada

• Celebrating 150 Years on July 1 2017

• 630 Bands

• Metis and Inuit too

• Joined Canada in 1871• 203 Bands

British Columbia

The Nlaka’pamux NationArcheology indicates an indigenous population living on the land for 7,000 years +.

1808: First Contact with French NWC with arrival of Simon Fraser.

• First named Couteau Tribe.

• Later renamed the Thompson Indian.

1857-58: Fought Americans to standstill in the Fraser Canyon War

1876: 69 villages amalgamated into 15 Indian Bands under the Indian Act

1878: Reserve Land allocations

Kanaka Bar Indian Band

• One of the original Nlaka’pamux communities.

• Webpage: www.kanakabarband.ca

• 66 members on reserve, 150 off

• Codified: Election, Membership and Governance Codes in 2013.

• Leadership: an indefinite term but face recall every 3rd Thursday.

Land Use Plan (March 2015).

Community Economic Development Plan (March 2016).

Bi-annual implementation plans.Holistic: what one does affects another

Kanaka Bar Indian BandOrganization ChartAs at May 2, 2016

Kanaka Bar & British Columbia Clean Energy SectorsLarge Hydro Geothermal Tidal Wave

Biomass Solar Run of River Wind

1.5 Projects1.5 Projects

N/A

Considered: not yet?

Applicable some day? N/A N/A

Concept Stage

How are we doing this?

BC Hydro (the buyer of electrons)

Net Metering: projects under 100Kw can connect to grid.

Micro SOP: projects between 100Kw and 1MW can connect to grid.

SOP: project up to 15Mw can connect to grid.

Calls: BC Hydro sends out an EOI for a certain year & project size is not predetermined.

Self-sufficiency (off grid)

Generating electrons for office, home, infrastructure without sale.

• Security systems

• Road signs

• Remote locations

Kanaka also considering test projects like greenhouses, homes and a rest area.

Kwoiek Creek

Kanaka Bar & Run Off River

• 1978 Lets do something

• 1990 Water license applied for by Kanaka

• 2005 Development Agreement• with Innergex

• 2006 EPA for 50MW from BC Hydro

• 2009 Environmental Certificates: • Federal and Provincial project go ahead

• 2010 Transmission Line Agreements• Nlaka'pamux communities of Siska,

Nicomen, Shackan and Lower Nicola

• Dec 15, 2011 Project construction started

• Jan 1, 2014 commercial operational date

Yesterday and Today

Seems likes a good thing for us!

• Built Capacity (30 years of learning)• For membership, leadership & staff

• Creating sustainable revenue for:• Food and energy self-sufficiency• Employment• Investments

• assets, land and savings

• Financial stability and certainty

• Reversed adverse affects of colonisation

• New relationships

CEBC 2014 Project Excellence Award

Seems Like a good thing for everyone else!

Federal Government

Provincial Government

Developers

First Nations

A Quadruple win =

• Broke a silo approach to development• Electrons for distribution to consumers –

enough to power 20,000 homes.• Multiple and diverse revenues and benefits

for all involved.

Collaboration

success through

Service

Siwash Creek (to start construction)

Kanaka Bar & Run Off River

• A 1 MW Project right next door!• Water License and License of

Occupation issued.

• Application to BC Hydro for EPA • submitted under Micro SOP.

• Equal Partnership between Kanaka Bar and Green Valley Power.

• Enough Electrons for 500 homes.

Ground Unit (6kw)

Kanaka Bar & Solar

• Canada’s Hotspot!

• An EOI was sent out.

• A Contractor was selected.• Teach your competition.

• Connected to grid through net metering program.

• Reduces Office hydro bill by 50%

• Could reach net zero.Built by Kanaka, for Kanaka at Kanaka!

May 24, 2016

Pillar Unit (proposed 4kw)

Kanaka Bar & Solar

• 4 Poles for Health Building.

• 1 Kw array on each pole.

• Design and locations are in.

• Connected to grid through net metering program.

• Goal to Reduce Health Office hydro bill by 50%/month.

• Could reach net zero.Goal: Operation by June 16th 2016

Kanaka Bar & Solar

Roof Units

• Reduce occupant’s hydro bill.

• Possible to Include battery storage so that house power stays on during BC Hydro outages.

• Maybe target some appliances first?

• How about a first home “off grid”!

Goal: during renovations and new builds

Kanaka Bar and Wind

In Concept and Planning Is there a wind source for electrons?

• For thousand of years, the wind was used by Kanaka at Kanaka to preserve food and still is.

• Trees are flagged (branches point in one direction.

• Wind requires a higher degree of planning and locations are been investigated before test projects are commenced.

• Is it to be HAWT or VAWT?

Kanaka Bar and….

Biomass

• Raised as part of the CEDP –membership were not ready to examine the opportunity in detail.

• Micro biomass can heat greenhouses while generating electrons.

• We use wood heat for our homes –convert waste heat into steam and voila!

Geothermal

• Technology applicable here but no social license.

• Concept of “bleeding mother” earth internal fluids is not something the community could entertain today.

Large Hydro

• Storage and timed release could be done in future.

Kanaka is perplexed.

Are Canada and BC clean energy champs….• We Have CEBC (Paul Kariya).

• We have Clean Energy Canada (MerranSmith).

• We have legislated emission reduction targets and carbon tax and even we signed the Paris Agreement!

• We have independent verification of desired outcomes .

• Success stories like Kanaka.

• A Federal and Provincial Government that says they get it!

….or not• An IRP Policy – does it really say

“delay, downsize and defer”?• “Site C” was chosen over smaller

diverse sources and benefits. • Where is the wind and sun from

Vancouver to Kanaka?• An extraction based industry is

subsidized and we exporting our raw materials (minerals, LNG, logs and oil/gas).

We can no longer credibly call our province a “climate leader”. Clean Energy Canada “joint letter” dated May 16, 2016

What's next for BC and Canada?

What you say or do matters! Any Questions?