The Hook (Tyhee blog)

'Native land claims scare the hell out of investors': energy expert

Fierce First Nations opposition could very well topple Enbridge's west coast pipeline proposal, a Washington-based energy expert argues.

"Native land claims scare the hell out of investors," Robert Johnson told an Alberta energy conference, according to an Edmonton Journal report. "My level of confidence [in the project] has gone down quite a bit, unfortunately."

Johnson belongs to senior management at Eurasia Group, which claims to be the "world's leading global political risk research and consulting firm."