First Nations Stories

Solar comes to Fort Chipewyan.

VIDEO – Prior to the Three Nations Energy large solar project, ATCO installed solar in Fort Chipewyan a community with only diesel electricity.

Judith Sayers, First Nations trailblazer

VIDEO – Meet Judith Sayers of the Hupacasth First Nation, an incredible leader who developed one of the first run-of-river projects owned by a First Nation.

First Nations and oilsands workers learn solar

VIDEO – The Louis Bull First Nation partnered with Iron and Earth to train workers to install solar, right at Louis Bull First Nation.

T’sou-ke First Nation saves energy and goes solar

VIDEO – The T’Sou-ke First Nation developed a community plan that led them to build the largest solar photovoltaic project in B.C. and cut their energy use by 75 per cent. Then the taught people in the surrounding municipality how to do it!

Tuktoyaktuk teen film group creates film on the impacts of climate change

PODCAST – Nathan Kuptana and Eriel Lugt, two of the youth filmmakers in the TukTV collective are creating a film entitled “Happening to Us,” a film about the impacts of climate change on their home in Tuktoyaktuk in the Arctic.

Indigenous-owned renewable energy project secure low electricity price

PODCAST – An indigenous working in Alberta helped pave the way for indigenous ownership in renewable energy procurement in Alberta. They also secured some of the best prices for renewable electricity in Canadian history.