On June 29, 2026, B.C.’s energy minister defended the province’s proposed natural gas royalty framework in a closed-door meeting in Fort St. John. As the government moved to collect its share of natural gas profits, Adrian Dix told Treaty 8 First Nations that the province and its taxpayers would see a windfall over the next five years.
“We put our estimates to $2.4 billion more in royalty revenues than what we had proposed before,” Dix said in a recently obtained recording.
B.C.’s gains, added the minister, were calculated based on numbers in the government’s Budget 2026.
But according to experts interviewed by Business in Vancouver, those budget numbers appear to
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