Tensions are growing over plans to log an ultra-rare section of ancient forest in Vancouver Island’s Central Walbran Valley. Filmmaker Daniel Pierce offers stunning video of the region and coverage of the battle.
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Continue readingTsawwassen has become the latest First Nation to reject the promises of LNG prosperity, voting 74-65 yesterday against plans for a 5 million tonne/year terminal on their reserve.
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Continue readingAsian LNG prices are set to continue their slide to well below the break-even point for BC exports. Leading analysts see them dropping to the $4-5/unit range over 2016-2017, chilling BC LNG hopes.
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Continue readingA vote by Tsawwassen First Nations for a local LNG plant would not only pollute their own community, argues Keving Washbrook, but it would mean more fracking in Northeast BC and help justify Site C Dam.
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Continue readingA diverse group of Kispiox Valley residents – doctors, farmers, loggers, business owners, guide outfitters – have banded together to stop a pipeline for Petronas’ proposed LNG project, as construction ramps up.
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Continue readingLearn all you need to know about LNG, fracking and our economy from this panel discussion following a screening of the award-winning film Fractured Land. Featuring Wade Davis, Damien Gillis and Dr. Eoin Finn.
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Continue readingAfter selling his papers’ journalistic integrity for oil and gas money, how does Postmedia boss Paul Godfrey wind up in the Canadian News Hall of Fame, asks Rafe Mair.
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Continue readingAfter five years in production, the award-winning Fractured Land is hitting theatres around BC. Common Sense Canadian publisher and the film’s co-director Damien Gillis discusses the process and screenings.
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Continue readingBCNDP Leader John Horgan at the party’s recent convention (NDP/facebook) Political pundits are busy analyzing the recent NDP convention and I can tell you it’s easier to interpret the entrails of a rooster. Conventions organized to look like sunny expressions of the party’s solidarity and readiness for an election usually
Continue readingGitxsan leaders of Camp Madii Lii stand behind the Lax Kw’aalams Nation at Lelu Island (submitted) A letter written by Lax Kw’alaams Hereditary Chief Yahaan (Donnie Wesley), calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to reject Petronas’ controversial LNG proposal near Prince Rupert, has gained a long list of unlikely, high-profile supporters. The
Continue readingJustin Trudeau visits US Capital in 2013 (Susan Walsh/Associated Press) It’s official: After seven years of withering on the vine, the Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta to the US Gulf Coast is dead, by President Barack Obama’s hand. Newly-minted Canadian Prime Minister and avowed Keystone supporter Justin Trudeau is reportedly disappointed
Continue readingPhoto: Flickr/KsideB If you don’t think that the approval of an LNG plant in Squamish – Woodfibre LNG – was a raw political decision, you not only believe in the tooth fairy, you must be the tooth fairy herself. The alleged “environmental assessment” by the Province, was a farce –
Continue readingUnist’ot’en blockade on Morice River in 20124 (Photo: Two Island Films) Read this Oct. 27 story from Mark Nielsen in the Prince George Citizen, on Chevron’s refusal to reroute its planned Pacific Trail Pipeline – designed to supply natural gas from northeast BC to its proposed LNG terminal in Kitimat – to
Continue readingFive year-old River Summer looks on at Brenot Creek landslide (Photo: Leigh Summer) A series of landslides above the northeast BC community of Hudson’s Hope has been dumping contaminated soils into several local creeks, extending now to the Peace River. Local landowners whose water supply has been affected are demanding answers.
Continue readingCitizens line the Sea to Sky Highway to protest Woodfibre LNG (My Sea to Sky) Op-ed by Tracey Saxby It really comes as no surprise that the Provincial Government has rubber stamped the Environmental Assessment (EA) for Woodfibre LNG. This is one of their pet projects, and the BC Liberals’
Continue readingWell, fellow friends of freedom of the press, what now? Agreements between Postmedia – the country’s largest newspaper chain – and the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP), plus an equally disgraceful deal between the company’s Vancouver Province and the LNG industry have permanently stained the organization’s journalistic credibility. Postmedia is broke and then
Continue readingHereditary chiefs of the Luutkudziiwus House of the Gitxsan Nation at their Madii Lii Camp While the country speeds toward a high-stakes federal election, things are heating up on the provincial front with the LNG file in BC. As Premier Clark hosts a third international LNG conference in Vancouver, sticking to her
Continue readingScreen capture of Regulator Watch video, in which host Brent Stafford (left) attacks Dr. Eoin Finn (right) I am pleased to see that Brent Stafford, shill for the Postmedia Group and Resource Works and their unqualified support for Woodfibre LNG, has chosen to respond in the social media to articles
Continue readingBC Premier Christy Clark touring Petronas’ operations in Malaysia (BC Govt / Flickr CC licence) Business publication The Malaysian Reserve is predicting that that country’s oil and gas giant Petronas will likely put its planned LNG project for Lelu Island, near Prince Rupert, on hold – citing the very weakening economic
Continue readingScreen capture of Brent Stafford and his Regulator Watch program from The Province website It was early last September, as near as I can remember. While strolling down the lane in tipsy pride. Not a word did I utter as I lay there in the gutter When this pig walked
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