Toil ahead for oil, but expect double trouble for LNG, Angela Macdonald-Smith, Energy Reporter, Sydney Morning Herald, December 7, 2014The crude oil market is seen as being in dire straits, but liquefied natural gas is much worse, according to experts….
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In-Sights: When industry buys a government…
Who knew that Christy Clark would make Gordon Campbell look like an effective, if somewhat dishonest, Premier. #bcpoli— Norm Farrell (@Norm_Farrell) December 4, 2015Did gas industry get a good deal when they bought a government? You betcha! #bcpo…
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: All you need to know about LNG: Wade Davis, Eoin Finn, Damien Gillis panel discussion
Learn 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 readingIn-Sights: Thinking of you Christy
Bloomberg Business says, “Spare a thought for anyone who bet on a recovery in liquefied natural gas prices after last year’s 45 percent plunge.”Bloomberg also says:LNG to northeast Asia, home to the world’s biggest consumers, plunged 27 percent thi…
Continue readingIn-Sights: Mr. Prime Minister, start pushing British Columbia
Trudeau says Indigenous people can teach the world how to care for the planet, APTN National News, November 30, 2015:Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said during a speech in Paris that Indigenous people can teach the world how to care for the planet….He…
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Rafe: How does oil-boosting Postmedia boss get into News Hall of Fame?
After 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 readingIn-Sights: Ahem, indeed
A while back, I complained on Twitter that corporate media types were failing to report on the near complete disappearance of revenues from this year’s monthly sales of petroleum and natural gas rights. Northern reporter Jonny Wakefield had a quick one…
Continue readingIn-Sights: BC’s climate change hypocrisy
Today, Christy Clark’s government provided talking points to favoured media about the province’s financial report to September 30, the second fiscal quarter. According to Global’s Keith Baldrey, natural gas royalties are down dramatically from forecast…
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Fractured Land hits theatres
After 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 readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Rafe: BCNDP convention shows they still don’t get it on LNG
BCNDP 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
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Letter to PM Trudeau re Lelu Island
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Large group of First Nations, scientists, green groups calls on Trudeau to reject Petronas LNG project
Gitxsan 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 readingIn-Sights: The sparkles dim
Before the 2013 election campaign in BC, incumbent Liberals were trailing in the polls and Premier Clark dueled with Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter for the lowest approval rating among Canadian premiers. A grandiose scheme to market the Liberal Party was desperately needed if the government was to be reelected.
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Rafe: Woodfibre LNG opposition isn’t NIMBYism – it’s based on real fear
Photo: 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 readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Chevron says it won’t reroute LNG pipeline around Unist’ot’en blockade
Unist’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 readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Woodfibre LNG may have govt’s rubber stamp, but not social license
Citizens 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 readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Rafe: Canada’s biggest newspaper chain sold its soul to oil and gas
Well, 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 readingIn-Sights: "Throw him some work"
Regular readers know my complaints about corporate media found-ins taking payments from parties affected by media coverage. People taking the cash don’t feel need to explain or excuse and indulgent colleagues seldom raise the conflict issue. Vancouver Sun political pundit Vaughn Palmer might believe the practice does not influence reporting,
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: While one First Nation sues to stop LNG, another embraces it
Hereditary 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 readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Rafe: LNG shill, Province blogger practices shabby journalism
Screen 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
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