From the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, October 2014: There are new warnings that gas prices will skyrocket as Queensland’s huge LNG export projects start production next year. The independent think tank, the Grattan Institute, has predicted that some households could see their gas bills jump by hundreds of dollars annually as
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Northern Insight / Perceptivity: Kumpelkapitalismus
Oil’s dive set to transform LNG market, The Financial Times, November 14, 2014 BC taxpayer “The downward spiral in oil prices is poised to shake up liquefied natural gas… “The 30 per cent plunge in crude since the middle of this year, to below $80 a barrel this week, is
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Nisga’a Nation community members protest LNG deal
Petronas’ proposed Pacific Northwest LNG project – the source of partnership talks with the Nisga’a Nation Read this Nov. 10 Tyee story by Wawmeesh G. Hamilton on the grassroots cracks forming in a proposed deal between a Nisga’a Nation elected leaders, TransCanada Pipelines and Pacific Northwest LNG – the $11 Billion project planned for
Continue readingNorthern Insight / Perceptivity: Solar power heating up
Here comes the sun, Mother Jones, November 2014 “Last week, an energy analyst at Deutsche Bank came to a startling conclusion: By 2016, solar power will be as cheap or cheaper than electricity from the conventional grid in every state except three. That’s without any changes to existing policy. In
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 readingThe Common Sense Canadian: 94% opposition to Woodfibre from municipal candidates answering LNG survey
Rendering of proposed Woodfibre LNG project near Squamish, BC Of the 31 candidates who responded to a recent questionnaire on the controversial Woodfibre LNG proposal for Howe Sound, 29 – or 94% – were opposed. The survey, conducted by Propeller Strategy, was presented by phone or email to all 98 candidates
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: BC LNG takes another hit as UK gas giant BG Group gets cold feet
An open house for BG Group’s proposed Prince Rupert LNG project (princerupertgas.com) Read this Oct. 29 Globe and Mail story on BG Group’s decision to reconsider its investment in BC’s LNG industry – the latest in a series of companies to get cold feet, including Encana, EOG, and Apache Corp. BG Group PLC
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Shell Game: Public being fooled by great BC LNG illusion
We are allowing ourselves to be mesmerized over Liquified Natural Gas (LNG). Perhaps we’re doing this to ourselves but the sad fact is that the government’s total ineptitude is not the only story. Not that that isn’t a big story. In fact, it was magnified last week when the Liberals set
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: The Big LNG Tax Regime Vomit Bucket
Cue sweet new day[tm] political campaign music, invoking images of a unicorn flying over our quaint village, then Robert Redford in voiceover: “LNG will be a $ trillion sector, reaping billions in revenue for the province [due to some kind of gruelling tax regime] so we can become debt-free, and
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: No surprise: Liberals slash public revenues from BC LNG
Premier Christy Clark’s election promise of big public revenues from BC LNG are evaporating (Canadian Press) Read this Oct. 21 story from Justine Hunter at the Globe and Mail on the Liberals’s slashing of once-promised windfall tax revenues from the proposed BC LNG industry – just as The Common Sense Canadian has been predicting for
Continue readingNorthern Insight / Perceptivity: Official opposition on resource development
John Horgan in the Legislature, October 8, 2014: “…Three years ago the Premier told B.C. families that she would make B.C. a leader in private sector job creation. Three years later we’re No. 9. When it comes to LNG, three years ago she said we’d create 100,000 jobs, we’d eliminate
Continue readingNorthern Insight / Perceptivity: Repeaters, not reporters
Ever notice that corporate media seems to speak with one voice? On balance – or rather, on lack-of-balance – they do. It is the voice of big business. Vaughn Palmer, with American shale gas boom a major threat to B.C. exports, is the latest columnist lobbing fat pitches into the
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 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 readingNorthern Insight / Perceptivity: Pretending less is known than we know
At times, I wonder if mainstream political journalism in BC is written by the uninformed for the uninformed. Gary Mason provided an example to consider when he commented on the latest threat directed at BC Liberals by Petronus, an Asian energy company. “While senior officials in the government tried to
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: High Noon for BC LNG? Legislative session to focus on industry
BC Premier Christy Clark addresses a conference on LNG (Damien Gillis) Read this Oct. 5 story by Stephen Smart on CBC.ca on the Fall legislative session that will address Premier Christy Clark’s plans to build a BC LNG industry. The session comes amid intense scrutiny of LNG, with key investors
Continue readingLeft Over: BC’s Future Goes Back to the Past…
Temporary foreign workers needed for B.C.’s future, says premier Christy Clark: ‘There’s going to be a spurt in the number of workers that are required.’ By Tamsyn Burgmann, The Canadian Press Posted: Oct 03, 2014 10:23 AM PT Last Updated: Oct 03, 2014 10:23 AM PT Living on the Island,
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
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