Green Tech Exchange Forum May 25, 2016 SFU Harbor Centre Presentation Chief Patrick Michell Kanaka Bar Indian Band “What we do to the lands, we do to ourselves.” The Indigenous People of Canada All diverse with distinct languages, culture and history. Canada • Celebrating 150 Years on July 1 2017 • 630 Bands • Metis and Inuit too British Columbia • Joined Canada in 1871 • 203 Bands The Nlaka’pamux Nation Archeology 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 Band Organization Chart As at May 2, 2016 Kanaka Bar & British Columbia Clean Energy Sectors Large Hydro Geothermal Tidal Wave N/A Applicable some day? N/A N/A Biomass Solar Run of River Wind Considered: not yet? 1.5 Projects 1.5 Projects Concept Stage How are we doing this? BC Hydro (the buyer of electrons) Self-sufficiency (off grid) Net Metering: projects under 100Kw Generating electrons for office, can connect to grid. home, infrastructure without sale. Micro SOP: projects between 100Kw • Security systems and 1MW can connect to grid. • Road signs SOP: project up to 15Mw can connect to grid. • Remote locations Calls: BC Hydro sends out an EOI for Kanaka also considering test a certain year & project size is not projects like greenhouses, homes predetermined. and a rest area. Kanaka Bar & Run Off River Kwoiek Creek • 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! • Broke a silo approach to development • Electrons for distribution to consumers – enough to power 20,000 homes. Federal Government • Multiple and diverse revenues and benefits for all involved. success through Provincial First Nations Government Developers Collaboration Service A Quadruple win = Kanaka Bar & Run Off River Siwash Creek (to start construction) • 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. Kanaka Bar & Solar Ground Unit (6kw) • 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 Kanaka Bar & Solar Pillar Unit (proposed 4kw) • 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…. Geothermal • Technology applicable here but Biomass no social license. • Raised as part of the CEDP – membership were not ready to • Concept of “bleeding mother” examine the opportunity in detail. earth internal fluids is not something the community could • Micro biomass can heat entertain today. greenhouses while generating electrons. Large Hydro • We use wood heat for our homes – • Storage and timed release could convert waste heat into steam and be done in future. voila! Kanaka is perplexed. Are Canada and BC clean energy champs…. ….or not • We Have CEBC (Paul Kariya). • An IRP Policy – does it really say • We have Clean Energy Canada (Merran “delay, downsize and defer”? Smith). • “Site C” was chosen over smaller • We have legislated emission reduction diverse sources and benefits. targets and carbon tax and even we signed the Paris Agreement! • Where is the wind and sun from • We have independent verification of Vancouver to Kanaka? desired outcomes . • An extraction based industry is • Success stories like Kanaka. subsidized and we exporting our • A Federal and Provincial Government that raw materials (minerals, LNG, logs says they get it! 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?.