Northern Confluence

March 4, 2023 From the Editor's Desk

Last page edit: August 24, 2026

When you never had a real job, and somehow have the funding Nikki Skuce has you have to ask, who is funding her? Click on the links and watch how the money trail (money laundering) is done.

The American Tides Foundation, aka the MakeWay

Foundation.

Sitka Foundation

Sitka Foundation (Vancouver) – Sitka’s philanthropy page lists “Northern Confluence, a project of MakeWay Charitable Society” among its grantees in the $50,000–$100,000 range, indicating at least one multi‑year or significant grant.

BC Conservation & Biodiversity Awards – In 2024, MakeWay Charitable Society received an award/grant specifically to support engagement and facilitation work for a critical Skeena ecosystem protection initiative under Northern Confluence.

What has Nikki Scuce and her Norther Confluence been up to?

Promoting a shut down of the proposed Jumbo Glacier Resort. The process includes a three-year pause on new mineral claims, though existing claims remain active. Skuce said pausing new claims is generally the first step and warned that existing claims may need to be bought out or excluded from the protected area. with the intention of putting permanent to protection of roughly 70,000 hectares around Jumbo Glacier Resort (funded by Americans)
Northern Confluence released The Data Deficit: Canada’s “Critical Minerals” Dilemma, authored by Skuce. It argues that Canada lacks basic information about domestic mineral use, recycling, and the destinations of exported minerals—gaps that make it difficult to justify or plan major mining expansion. (More American funded opposition)
Challenge to B.C.’s fast-track mining assessments: In March, Skuce criticized proposed B.C. rules that could reduce some major-project environmental assessments to a 20-month process. The proposal would narrow the assessment criteria, remove Indigenous-led assessment options, reduce public-comment opportunities, and omit explicit consideration of cumulative effects. More slowdown X-Scuce’s
Yukon–B.C. electricity-grid proposal: In February, Skuce expressed conditional support for connecting Yukon and B.C. to the electrical grid if the project primarily benefited Yukon residents and included distributed-energy systems. She cautioned that new roads and transmission lines could instead facilitate a critical-minerals development rush in boreal forests and wetlands. More shutdown X-Scuce’s

Last page edit: November 19, 2023

Bluntly put, one person does not an organization make, its a website not an organization.

To call Northern Confluence an organization is more than just a stretch, its an organization of one, Nikki Skuce is the self declared director of Northern Confluence but to her credit she is a talented manipulator and us such gets paid by the Tides Foundation though large grants, large enough not to have to ever get a real job, so she has no need for protecting real jobs either. Tides Canada now called MakeWay even has a page called Northern Confluence – Makeway

This Northern Confluence has never publicly acknowledged that it has a membership, that it has a board of directors, its just one person and a website that is funded by Americans who want to shut down their competition in Canada. As always there are a few unscrupulous Canadians who love the money enough to do the job or organizing and coming up with schemes to shut Canada down.

Here is a must read article from BC-North on Nikki Skuce – False Representation of the North in this article worth reading on how a team of one can look like a large organization.

Would it then be a surprise that she is also working hand in hand with all the other organizations trying to kill every industrial job in the Northwest? She also claims to work in partnership in the region directly with Indigenous communities, governments, hereditary chiefs and Indigenous Guardian programs. However on a deeper examination she works only with those who oppose industry or industrial development, walk with me or I walk over you seems to be the motive.

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