KANAKA’S GREEN ECONOMY STORY

Preparation for the environment and economy of tomorrow!

Dinner Presentation: Chief Patrick Michell

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GREEN ECONOMY THE KEYSTONE FOR GLOBAL CIVILIZATION

•Air (3 minutes).

•Water (3 days).

•Food (3 weeks).

•Shelter: depends on your climate?

•Energy: from flame to lightbulb

Without these foundations people move, fight, die or innovate.

Kanaka Summer Youth Program 2016

FOUNDATION CERTAINTY LEADS TO STABILITY!

Awareness

Sustainable land and resources management allowed transition from hunting & gathering to villages and

Nations.

Kanaka Summer Youth Program 2017

An Nlaka’pamux Nation Map 69 Villages – Kanaka is # 51

How many Bands are there in Canada: 633

How Many Bands are there in BC: 203

NLAKA’PAMUX(the people here)

TEQT’AQTN’MUX(the crossing place people)

Year Event

1808 First contact with the Nlaka’pamux

1858 Gold rush and the Fraser Canyon War

1858 Colony of British Columbia declared (161 Years Ago)

1867 Canada’s Confederation (152 Years Ago)

1871 British Columbia joins Canada (148 Years Ago)

1876 Indian Act is established

1878 Reserves allocated to Kanaka Bar

1884 CPR is built on Kanaka’s Whyeek reserves

1913 CNR is built and Kanaka loses more reserves

1927 Trans-Provincial Highway is built

1957 Highway1 is built: Kanaka loses more reserves

1967 BC Hydro builds power lines and more reserves are lost

1978 Kanaka Bar commences the process of ‘recovery’

Time Immemorial to March 13, 2019….

LAMENT FOR CONFEDERATION 1967CANADA IS 100 YEARS OLD

Was the poem one of despair or of optimism?

Kanaka BarContact, conflict and colonization

Kanaka survived colonization….

….so did the Nlaka’pamux

St Georges School Lytton

Kanaka Summer Youth Program 2015

Answering “who are we”?

MY GRAMMA TOLD ME….TO LIVE

And to have a quality of life you need:

•Air

•Food

•Water

•Shelter

•Energy

and that you worked or you died!

❑ Ask, when you need something.

❑ Take only what you need, no more.

❑ Take it in, take it out.

❑ Bring the land back to its natural state.

WHAT DOES GREEN ECONOMY MEAN TO KANAKA?

To maintain a BalanceUnderstanding the Principles

If you have adequate food, water, air and shelter….

….do you need more?

Not at the expense of future generations!

Yesterday, today and tomorrow.

If its reasonable and makes sense, we are

going to have a look at it!

Kokpis: have to decide whether the

land and resource can handle the ask!

❑ Ask, when you need something.

❑ Take only what you need, no more.

❑ Take it in, take it out.

❑ Bring the land back to its natural state.

WHAT DOES GREEN ECONOMY MEAN TO KANAKA?

To maintain a BalanceUnderstanding the Principles

If you have adequate food, water, air and shelter….

….do you need more?

Not at the expense of future generations!

Yesterday, today and tomorrow.

If its reasonable and makes sense, we are

going to have a look at it!

Kokpis: have to decide whether the

land and resource can handle the ask!

161 years

8,000 YEARS OUR ANCESTORS LIVED WITHOUT 3RD PARTIES

Kanaka Membership Shared

•Governance, Election and Membership Codes (2012)

•Land Use Plan (March 31 2015)

•Housing Policy (March 2016)

•CEDP March 31 2016 – 5 Year Plan

•Food Security and Vision Document (May 2016)

•Personnel Policy (Dec 2016)

•Climate Change Assessment and Adaption Strategy (July 2018)

•In the works: Asset Management Plan

We are still here

Kanaka Summer Youth Program 2018

KANAKAS GREEN ECONOMY STRATEGYFROM THE HIP OR

WITH A PLAN?

2015 Community Vision Statement

To become a self-sufficient, sustainable and vibrant community!

Evolved into 4 intertwined goals

Lets start small and see what happens!

COMMUNITY BASED GREEN ECONOMYSTART SMALL AND SCALE UP

Where are we at and what are we dong next?

Kanaka Engagement

All confirm what Kanaka suspected…

1. Start small and scale up!

2. Have a Plan!

3. Involve Everyone!

4. Make it fun and relevant!

KANAKA SMALL STEP (WHERE)REMEMBERING THE LAND

Locating and Assessing

•Walking

•Mapping

•Clearing

•Cleaning

•Planning

KANAKA INNOVATIONLAND ACQUISITION

Land is a Foundation!

•6 Reserves: 40 acres of usable land!

•Kanaka created organization chart and companies (last iteration May 2016)

KLH acquires 5 fee simple lands

• Comes with water licenses!

• Secures short and long term opportunity!

• Removed “Private Property” signs for now!

• Cleaning the land and planning!

KANAKA INNOVATION (MAPPING)WHERE IS EVERYTHING?

SINCE THE 1970’SKANAKA HAS NOW COMPLETED

•80 hectares of forest fire hazard reduction (ongoing)

•50 MW Hydro Project (2014)

•26 electrical and energy retrofits of current shelter units

•10 new energy efficient shelter units

•7 solar projects

•5 wind gauging stations

•4 water gauging stations

•2 “minute by minute” energy consumption metres (band office and health building)

•2 new waterline and intakes

•Pilot “Food Forest” with bees and chickens

•Pilot Greenhouse

•KanPower (demand side management)

• Reducing household and office energy consumption through awareness

Made by Kanaka, For Kanaka, by Kanaka

KANAKA CURRENTLY WORKING ON

•100 fruit trees & vines Spring 2019

• Planted in community spaces

•30 hectares of forest fire hazard reduction

•20 new affordable shelter units

• Hydro included in rent

•8 wind/solar street lamps

•2 Community Building/Muster Point

• September 2019 & August 2020

•Food forest expansion (common areas)

•Solar rooftop expansion

• New subdivisions

•Continuation of energy retrofits

•Continuation of KanPower

•Air quality and weather monitoring

•Intern to come in an review all of the above and provide a report

VISION FOR THE NEAR FUTURE

• 2 new waterlines with above ground intakes/reservoirs

•Updated 5 Year CEDP

•More and larger greenhouses

•E-commerce development for surplus meats, fruits and vegetables

•Must Stop Rest Stop (Highway 1)

• Free potable water source

• Renewable energy power commercial/retail

• Electric vehicle charging station

• Overnight accommodation (tiny homes)

•The Crossing Place

• 100% renewable energy powered/integrated energy systems for subdivisions and community buildings

IS KANAKA AHEAD OF THE CURVE?

WILDFIRE HAZARD RISK REDUCTION

2019 TREATMENT

AREAS

KANAKA SMALL STEPWATER

We have never run out of water!Self-sufficiency based on something more than

“there's water in them hills”

• Drinking

• Irrigation

• Fire protection

• Energy production

• Treatment for others

KANAKA INNOVATIONWATER QUANTITY AND QUALITY

Water is a foundation!

•Seven creeks with year round water.

•Water data measured 24/7/365 on 4 streams.

•Locating and repairing intakes.

•Replacing ditches with waterlines.

KANAKA GREEN ECONOMY“AGRICULTURE”

Its more than food…. September 2018

KANAKAVEGETABLES

Planted(what grows and what does not!)

No surprises, squash, pumpkin, cucumbers, tomatoes, corn, beans, peas and potatoes.

Surprisingly, broccoli, cauliflower….

Goal

1. Year round supply of fresh and to process as frozen, dried or canned.

2. Expansion from Food Forest to fields and larger greenhouses (as needed).

3. Making our own heritage “acclimatized” seeds and plant stock.

4. Espalier the fences (for elders and disabled to access).

KANAKAGREENHOUSE

Solar Thermal: to maintain a static internal growing environment (warm in winter and cool in summer).

This is not a Walmart/Canadian Tire special.

Goal

1. Year round supply of fresh fruits, vegetables and medicines.

2. Root stock and seedlings for field and orchards.

3. Expand to more or larger when and if needed.

4. Protect crops in summer from inversion layers, heat and drought.

Ribbon Cutting: September 20, 2018

KANAKABEES

From 1 hive in 2017 to 4 in 2018….

•Bring in the pollinators

• for our fruits and vegetables

•Producing honey & beeswax

Goal

Not going to compete with the stores, but make available a honey and wax for residents, visitors and Lytton?

SMALL STEPS(IT’S THE MEAT THING)

From 24 in 2017 to 50 in 2018…. ….dare we dream?

Goal

1. Learn everything we can about “ranching”

2. Start small and scale up!

3. Looking at goats, deer and pork.

Kanaka acquired ownership in fee of land simply

known as the “Deer Farm”!

KANAKA BAR & FOOD “INNOVATION” NOT REALLY (THAT’S WHY ITALICS)

“old ways in a new way”7000+ years of using the land, water, wind and sun to live!

•Drying meats, fruits and vegetables.

•Trading surplus to others.

•Stwan (wind dried fish)

• our original legal tender!

•Clearing land, reactivating waterlines.

•Now planted 76 different fruits, vegetables and plants.

•Harvesting and Processing

• Generating surplus already so we sell at the office.

3 WEATHER STATIONS

Site specific data

• Sun and temperature

• Wind

• Precipitation

• Air quality

Must know you’re your information in order to have a green economy

KANAKA GREEN ECONOMY MAKING OUR OWN ELECTRICITY

Powering our community and economy without extraction of resources!

Our ancestors chose our village sites because of the available land, wind, sun and water resources.

Youth 2010

HYDRO ELECTRICITY – GREEN ENERGY

Kwoiek 50MW

• operational since Jan 2014

Siwash 500 kW

•1987 – 2019 otherwise known as permiiting purgatory

Net Metering

• opportunity wherever you have a meter and water quantity and pressure!

•May freeze up in winter

•Dry out in summer

1978 – 2014 (FEASIBILITY, DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION)2014 - OPERATIONS

Clean Energy BC: 2014 Project Excellence Award

KANAKA SOLAR ENERGY PRODUCTION (X7)

Sun does no shine all the time, clouds and smoke inversions layers!

It works!

•Ground unit at Band office

•Pillar Unit at Health building

•Tracker on Maintenance building

• Battery backup (its stays powered during outage)

•Rooftop at Gravel Pit

• lights and security

•3 panels powering weather stations

Kanaka Band Office – NW Lawn Area

88% Shading Factor meaning about 12% of annual sun exposure is shade

compromised.

This is a “good” solar site compromised by tree and mountain shading.

Riverside Energy Systems (Kamloops)

InEnergy (Vancouver)

The Solar Tracker

ENERGY MONITORINGPRODUCTION VERSUS CONSUMPTION

Goal

1. Blue consumption to be less

than orange production (daily,

monthly yearly).

2. Integration of multiple small

projects (which support each

other)

Kanaka to not lose “power” when

BC Hydro has an outage.

AIR QUALITY CAN WE WORK, LIVE OR GROW IN THESE CONDITIONS

MINISTERS OF ENVIRONMENT ANDCLIMATE CHANGE

Minister Catherine Mckenna Minister George Heyman

Climate Change – its real, its here and lets have a plan!

MARCH 13, 2019

“A better life today but not at the expense of our future generations”.

(Minister George Heyman)

“The path of the west is not the only one”

(Dr. Wade Davis)

CLIMATE CHANGEAFFECTS

•Anxiety

•Price increases for food, shelter and electrical (increased costs are ultimately transferred to consumers)

•Scarcity

•Climate Change may ultimately lead to no 3rd Party products or services at all!

•Lines ups, conflict, going without!

Regressive

Elderly, disabled, young and the poorwill feel it first and the hardest!

Remember from Earlier?

1. Without food, shelter, air and water…2. People fight, die, move or innovate

What have we accomplished since

colony (161 years ago) and

confederation (148 years ago)

Does not mean we have

to accept this

CHOOSING A GREEN ECONOMY IN THE AGE OF CONSEQUENCES

Death by A Thousand Cuts !

•The whole ongoing Kyoto and Paris Thing

•Waking the Frog ( Tom Rand 2014)

•The New Normal: 21st Century Disaster Management in British Columbia (2017):• https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/public-

safety-and-emergency-services/emergency-preparedness-response-recovery/embc/bc-flood-and-wildfire-review-addressing-the-new-normal-21st-century-disaster-management-in-bc-web.pdf

•Just Cool It (David Suzuki 2017)

•Kanaka Bar’s Site Specific Climate Change Assessment (July 2018)

Greater frequency, duration and intensity!

• Air Quality diminished (those smoke warnings)

• Flooding (both spring and fall)

• Forest Fires (2 years in a row – BC state of emergency)

• Drought (no rain plus high temperature in growing season)

• Highway Closures & 0ther disruptions

• delayed permitting

• more power outages

• High fuel costs followed by no fuel for transportation

Displacement:

• where do people go when experiencing some or all of the above?

KANAKA GREEN ECONOMY BUSINESS CASE

Kanaka: Managing to break even point!You can’t eat money!

•Meeting need of community today and getting ready for tomorrow.

•Investing in a 100 year plan with supporting policy and infrastructure so that expansion available as need arises.

•Creating a story.

•Benefits that exceed expectations!

Kanaka & Climate Change:It’s real and its here!

•Awareness, acceptance and proactive!

•Forecasting food scarcity and price increases created by ongoing & increasing global issues.

Changing Foundations

• Harm reduction and harm reversal!

• Crises not replicated at Kanaka.

CLIMATE CHANGE

Producing an opportunity and economy for tomorrow.

Are you ready for it?

CLIMATE CHANGEBE AWARE AND PROACTIVE

Kanaka Bar will be OK!

If Kanaka is right! Community has achieved food self sufficiency.

Community is ready for the environment and economy of tomorrow.

If Kanaka is wrong! Community has achieved food self-sufficiency.

Community is ready for the environment and economy of tomorrow.

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/kanaka-bar-band-planning-for-a-bright-future-with-dark-times-ahead

IT TAKES TIME TO DO THINGS RIGHT!THE CROSSING PLACE

http://www.kanakabarband.ca/business/kanaka-land-holdings-

ltd/the-crossing-place

• The Heart of Kanaka given away by the

Crown 1860’s.

• Fee simple land acquired by KLH.

• Comes with 2 water license.

• Land walked and clearing started.

• Application to Province (20 new doors)

• submitted on October 5th 2018

• Approval vocalized on Nov 24, 2018

• Occupation Fall 2020

Agriculture: Located next to 5 acres of land

for greenhouses, field farms and terraced

“food forests”

Energy: integrated wind, solar, hydro with

battery storage.

IT TAKES TIME TO DO THINGS RIGHT!THE MUST STOP REST STOP

• 30 acres of commercial/retail property

adjacent to Kanaka acquired by KLH.

• Buildings are been torn down and new water

lines to include potable water for the region.

• Can be used for fruit stand and operations

base for E-Commerce.

• Showcase green economy on Highway 1

through renewable energy and

agricultural!practicesEco-tourism: build it, they will come!

WHAT YOU DO TO THE LAND, YOU DO TO YOURSELVES

WHO: Kanaka Bar is engaged as a community.

WHAT: Doing community based energy & agriculture.

WHERE: On our land and resources.

HOW: One step at a time.

WHY: For the environment/economy of tomorrow!

Any question?

Email: chief@kanakabarband.ca

Website: http://www.kanakabarband.ca/

If Kanaka can do it, so can you!