Alberta Is Spending $5 Million to Win BC Indigenous Pipeline Support – The Tyee

May 27, 2026

Well-connected lobbyists and consultants have been given contracts to smooth the way.

Alberta taxpayers are already spending millions on consultants to smooth the way with Indigenous nations for a new pipeline through British Columbia to the Pacific coast, a proposal that so far has been met with strident opposition.

The biggest spending is $3.4 million with Sedgwick Strategies, a Delta-based company whose president, Byng Giraud, is a veteran of developing major projects and a longtime organizer for provincial and federal conservatives and the BC Liberals.

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