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By Jeremy Appel, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (ANNews) \u2013 Less than a week before Billy Morin was elected as the Conservative MP for Edmonton Northwest in the Canadian federal election, the former elected chief of Enoch Cree Nation moderated a panel on Indigenous opportunities in hydrogen. The Canadian Hydrogen Convention was held on April 23 and 24 at the Edmonton Convention Centre, with the second day including the panel, \u201cIndigenous Partnerships for a Clean Energy Future.\u201d Grand Chief Greg Desjarlais of the Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations, Salish Elements chairman and co-founder Reuben George, and Xaxli\u2019p (Fountain First Nation) executive director Andrew Mercer spoke on the Morin-moderated panel. Salish Elements, an Indigenous-run company that produces green hydrogen\u2014meaning hydrogen that is made with water, rather than natural gas\u2014signed a May… <\/p>\n

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By Jeremy Appel, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter (ANNews) \u2013 Less than a week before Billy Morin was elected as the Conservative MP for Edmonton Northwest in the Canadian federal election, the former elected chief of Enoch Cree Nation moderated a panel on Indigenous opportunities in hydrogen. The Canadian Hydrogen Convention was held on April 23 and 24 at the Edmonton Convention Centre, with the second day including the panel, \u201cIndigenous Partnerships for a Clean Energy Future.\u201d Grand Chief Greg Desjarlais of the Confederacy of Treaty Six First Nations, Salish Elements chairman and co-founder Reuben George, and Xaxli\u2019p (Fountain First Nation) executive director Andrew Mercer spoke on the Morin-moderated panel. Salish Elements, an Indigenous-run company that produces green hydrogen\u2014meaning hydrogen that is made with water, rather than natural gas\u2014signed a May... <\/p>\n

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