CEO of the Indian Resource Council, Stephen Buffalo now speaks on behalf of 130 First Nations that produce or could produce oil and gas in Canada.Photo by Gavin Young/Postmedia

Aboriginal oilman aims to take lead on resource development: 'We cannot live in soft communism'

'We’re better partners than we are fighting in the courts,' says Albertan Stephen Buffalo, CEO of the Indian Resource Council

by · National Post

This is a conversation series by Donna Kennedy-Glans, a writer and former Alberta cabinet minister, featuring newsmakers and intriguing personalities.

Growing up on Canada’s richest First Nations reserve was a tough lesson for Stephen Buffalo. Despite hundreds of millions of petro-dollars gushing into his hometown, Hobbema (as the central Alberta community was called at the time), grifters and misery made the place a hellhole.

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