Petronas CEO Shamsul Abbas shakes hands with BC Premier Christy Clark Read this Nov. 26 Reuters story on the BC Liberal government’s approval of multiple LNG infrastructure applications. VANCOUVER — British Columbia has approved a liquefied natural gas export terminal being developed by Malaysia’s Petronas, along with two pipelines to service
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The Common Sense Canadian: LNG, fracking and BC’s Energy future: Victoria multimedia discussion
Join The Common Sense Canadian’s Damien Gillis and Council of Canadians’ Leila Darwish for a multimedia discussion about BC’s energy future – this Wednesday evening in Victoria. Gillis, who is also co-directing the documentary film Fractured Land, will tackle the economic and environmental myths and realities of the proposed LNG industry –
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Govt fears losing LNG, fracking social licence to social media: Internal briefing note
Rich Coleman tries to conjure up some good LNG PR with this youtube video (BC govt youtube page) The BC government is worried it can’t control the way fracking and liquefied natural gas (LNG) are being criticized through social media, documents obtained through a Freedom of Information request reveal. As a result, the
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Ernst wins right to sue Alberta govt over fracking water contamination
Environmental consultant Jessica Ernst on her land in Alberta (Colin Smith photo) An Alberta woman has the right to sue the provincial environment ministry for allegedly failing to properly investigate water contamination she says Encana’s hydraulic fracturing caused on her property, a Calgary judge has ruled. Jessica Ernst launched a
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Rafe: Shell promises “green” LNG…we can trust them, right?
Christy Clark and Marvin Odum, President Shell Oil Company at recent BC LNG conference (BC govt flickr) I’m sure, like me, you were excited to read in the Vancouver Sun for November 4 that LNG Canada (Shell and its Asian partners) will build a plant in Kitimat which will be
Continue readingLeft Over: Money for Nothin’ and Your Work for Free…
Poloz’s prescription for unemployed youth: Work for free TAVIA GRANT The Globe and Mail Published Tuesday, Nov. 04 2014, 12:40 PM EST Last updated Tuesday, Nov. 04 2014, 7:03 PM EST http://montrealsimon.blogspot.ca/2014/11/the-bank-of-canada-governor-and-young.html Anyone familiar with British politics has heard it all before..the government of Cameron, right wing nutjob with an unspeakable
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Politics, Hockey, Fall Sitting at the BC Legislature and Local Elections-Game on!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger We are moving into autumn, our glorious climate change driven summer is wrapping up even though our confused tomato plants refuse to stop providing even more ripe tomatoes. Last night our beloved Vancouver Canucks warmed our hockey deprived souls with a win in the season opener against
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: 70 of Canadians support a national moratorium on fracking: POLL
A new poll commissioned by the Council of Canadians reveals that an overwhelming majority of Canadians oppose fracking, support “a national moratorium on fracking until it is scientifically proven to be safe.” The post 70 of Canadians support a national moratorium on fracking: POLL appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Watershed Moment: Damien Gillis on Fracking, LNG, Site C @ Capilano
Fracking operations in northeast BC use enormous volumes of water (Photo: Damien Gillis) Filmmaker and Common Sense Canadian publisher Damien Gillis takes us on a multi-media journey to northeast BC – the heart of the province’s industrial landscape – to better understand the implications of the government’s energy policy on our
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: China’s war on coal means lots more renewable energy…and fracking
Shale gas is a big component of China’s future energy plans China has declared war on coal and coal consumption is down as a result. But this coal war offers some good news, some not so good news for Canada, and some bad news, all at the same time. China turns
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Andrew Nikiforuk–LNG and Petro State Politics-Video
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Like so many of you my concern about this runaway climate change train wreck that our politicians are allowing and in many case aiding and abetting is troublesome to the point that it has become the number one issue facing the planet today. I have read, seen
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Rafe: Clark govt in over its head with big LNG players like Petronas
Photo: Tina Lovgreen / BCIT Commons Many long years ago, when I was in first year Law, we learned a case called the Carbolic Smoke Ball case. This involved a patent medicine and great claims were made for its virtues. There was a lawsuit because a user of this patent
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: “World-Class” BC LNG brings Third World deals with likes of Petronas
Most of Petronas CEO Abbas and BC Premier Clark’s discussions have been behind closed doors It’s possible that the majority of British Columbians would agree with developing our natural gas resources – even for export – if our own energy security was guaranteed, the economic benefits accrued to British Columbians and we
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: BC should not be bullied or suckered by Petronas over LNG taxes
Petronas CEO Shamsul Abbas addressing BC LNG conference (Damien Gillis) News this morning that Malaysian energy giant Petronas is considering pulling out of the nascent BC LNG industry over the taxes the province wishes to collect from its gas resources called to mind a legendary story about Tommy Douglas when he was premier
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Behn, Gillis talk Yukon, fracking on CBC radio
The Liard River Basin is threatened by proposed fracking (Two Island Films) Listen to this 11-minute interview on CBC Yukon with First Nations resource management expert lawyer Caleb Behn and Common Sense Canadian publisher and filmmaker Damien Gillis – who has been co-directing a film about Behn for the past 3 and a half years.
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: BC govt bowed to oil lobby on deregulation of gas plants: documents
Premier Christy Clark tours BC’s natural gas industry (photo: Justin Tang/CP) Read this Sept. 14 Canadian Press story by Dene Moore, revealing that the BC government’s controversial, failed elimination of environmental reviews for gas plants came under pressure from the oil and gas lobby. VANCOUVER – In January of this year,
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Behn, Gillis to talk fracking in Yukon as govt reviews moratorium
Caleb Behn, subject of the forthcoming film Fractured Land, will talk fracking in the Yukon (Zack Embree) The Common Sense Canadian’s Damien Gillis and First Nations resource management expert and recent law graduate Caleb Behn will be in the Yukon from September 15 to 18, discussing the pros and cons of
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Fracking-related earthquakes prompt halt to Ohio wastewater injections
Read this Sept. 6 Associated Press story by Julie Carr Smith on regulators’ concerns over earthquakes in Ohio connected to post-fracking wastewater injection. State regulators suspended operations at two deep-injection wells for fracking wastewater in northeastern Ohio yesterday after discovering possible evidence that the operation caused a 2.1-magnitude earthquake last weekend. The Ohio Department of
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Gas industry contributes just 0.01% of BC’s revenues, few jobs
Two of the province’s surprisingly few gas workers – in BC’s Horn River Basin (Photo: Damien Gillis) By Norman Farrell Regular readers are aware that British Columbia’s natural gas industry provides surprisingly little return to the province by way of royalties for depleting non-renewable public assets. In the last two fiscal years,
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Nova Scotia is not ready for fracking
An independent panel commissioned by the government of Nova Scotia to examine the impact of hydraulic fracturing has concluded that Nova Scotia is not read for fracking. The post Nova Scotia is not ready for fracking appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
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