BC 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
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Opinion: LNG dream will fail, David Bond, Vancouver Sun, October 5, 2016 The evidence is now overwhelming. B.C.’s current energy policies, centred on the LNG export strategy and BC Hydro’s Site C, are likely to fail at great cost to taxpayers. Under regulations set by the provincial government, LNG development
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: RAFE: How Postmedia climbed in bed with the LNG lobby and a PR flack
Richard Hughes Independent Strategic Voter BC is in a mess on the LNG front. The BC Liberal government has sold the farm to Chinese and Malaysian interests and the media, or at least much Read more…
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: How Postmedia climbed in bed with the LNG lobby and a PR flack
Screen 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
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Postmedia’s alternate version of energy realities
Yesterday in my email inbox, the chickens began to come home to roost for Postmedia – the Canadian newspaper chain. My first letter came from a constant correspondent who gave the Official statistics for BC Hydro losses going back to the old NDP years. Since the Campbell/Clark government, the losses have
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Christy Clark’s Next Megaproject and Elon Musk
Monday, BC Premier Christy Clark will unveil her new economic action [!] plan for the next BC megaproject sector. It's getting closer: the 2015 International #LNGinBC Conference is happening at @VanConventions Oct 14-16, http://t.co/VULAf7OCJj #LNG #BC — BC Jobs Plan (@BCJobsPlan) October 1, 2015 Fresh from the announcements of the
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The posh New York real estate linked to a US investigation of Malaysia’s prime minister, BC Liberal’s new LNG business partner. Malaysia’s prime minister must be feeling the heat. Accused of pocketing nearly $700 million from a state development fund, Najib Razak now faces an investigation by the US Justice
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Lax Kw’alaams claim on Lelu Island could sink Petronas’ LNG project
Lelu Island and Flora Bank (foreground) – site of controversial proposed LNG plant (Skeena Watershed Conservation Soc.) Read this September 18 Vancouver Sun story on a claim by the Lax Kw’alaams First Nation to Lelu Island – the controversial site for Petronas’ planned LNG terminal in the Skeena Estuary near Prince Rupert.
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Northern First Nations band together to block Petronas’ LNG plans
Gitxsan leaders of Madii Lii Camp are standing behind the Lax Kw’alaams (submitted) Several First Nations groups are banding together to block early work by contractors for Petronas’ Lelu Island LNG terminal. Leaders of the Madii Lii resistance camp – situated atop several proposed pipeline routes in the Skeena Valley – are rallying behind hereditary chiefs
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Tsartlip First Nation blasts Steelhead LNG over proposed Saanich project
Tsartlip Chief Don Tom opposing another unwanted project – construction of a luxury home on burial grounds The Tsartlip First Nation on southern Vancouver Island is weighing in on a proposed LNG project for the Saanich Inlet – pouring cold water on an August 20 announcement by proponent Steelhead LNG touting
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: NDP, Green candidates oppose Woodfibre LNG outright; Liberal and Tory are different story
Green candidate Ken Melamed doesn’t see a future for Woodfibre LNG (facebook/Mitch Stookey) Local NDP and Green candidates are steadfastly opposed to the Woodfibre LNG project near Squamish, reveals a recent series of one-on-one interviews. Meanwhile, the Liberal candidate for West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country, Pamela Goldsmith-Jones, is on the fence,
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Rafe:–The Christy Clark Excuse For a Government and The BC NDP’s Lack Of Opposition Vigour
Rafe Mair Dear Richard Your article of yesterday is very disturbing in a number of ways. Quite by coincidence, the following story appears on the CBC A leading seismic scientist says B.C.’s energy Read more…
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: First Nations occupying Lelu Island, blocking early Petronas LNG work
The battle over Malaysian energy giant Petronas’ controversial LNG terminal in the Skeena River Estuary is intensifying, as local Lax Kw’alaams First Nation members are setting up camp on Lelu Island, near Prince Rupert – the site of the proposed project. “Basically we’re going to be occupying our traditional land, exercising
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Rafe Mair’s ‘State of the Union’ on Canadian environmental politics
Before I get onto the federal election, let me say I have never been more depressed about governance in this country. A recent note from a reader pointed out the atrocious record of the Christy Clark government in erasing emails, losing emails, redacting emails (that’s bureaucratese for blacking out anything that
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Malahat Chief Michael Harry and Council Have resigned!
Word of the mass resignation of the Malahat Nation has been directed to Cowichan Conversations. What drove the resignations? To escape scrutiny? The relationship with South Island Aggregates? The LNG play? Read more…
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Rafe: Media let Liberals get away with murder on IPPs, now LNG
Construction of a private power project on the Ashlu River (Photo: Range Life) A flash of anger came over me when Ian Jessup of CFAX 1070, Victoria, asked me to come on his show and talk about so-called independent power producers (IPPs), euphemistically referred known as “run of river”. No, I
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: BCIT demands LNG lobby drop falsely used name from “partner” list
BCIT campus (Dago Agacino / Flickr CC licence) I find myself spending more time than I would like on Resource Works, the invention of The BC Business Council, that blindly supports approval of Woodfibre LNG in Squamish. To follow on last week’s column, where we learned that Resource Works’ website contained
Continue readingIn-Sights: Huge cost, high risk, low government revenue, few permanent jobs, better choices
LNG and Employment in BC, Marc Lee, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Juy 28, 2015: This brief examines the BC government’s claim that 100,000 jobs will be created from liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects in this province. We find that this claim is not credible and that potential employment impacts
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Malaysian paper claims Petronas ready for Sept. construction start on BC LNG plant
BC Finance Minister Mike de Jong announcing BC’s LNG Project Development Agreement (BC Gov. Flickr) Read this July 27 story from Malaysian news site TheStar.com, citing comments from BC Finance Minister Mike de Jong in that country as evidence that a construction start on Petronas’ proposed LNG project near Prince
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: LNG lobby fakes partnerships with prominent organizations
Key Resource Works members (clockwise from top left): Teck’s Doug Horswill, ex-Vancouver Sun editor Stewart Muir, former A-G Geoff Plant, and Lyn Anglin of Geoscience BC Desperate people do desperate things. Today I want to talk about Resource Works, the shills for Woodfibre LNG, proposed for Squamish at the head of
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