July’s sale of BC Petroleum and Natural Gas Rights realized little more than a million dollars, bringing the seven month total in 2015 to $8 million. In the year before Christy Clark became Premier, the total for the same months was almost $664 million. During January to July of 2008,
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Cowichan Conversations: RAFE: Blatant Media Bias -Vancouver Province Partners With Woodfibre LNG
Rafe Mair As you know, the Vancouver Province is an official partner of Resort Works, who are essentially the public relations arm of Woodfibre LNG. That means, of course, that the Vancouver Sun and Read more…
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: BC LNG Bill locks in public rip-off for a generation
Ex-Petronas CEO Shamsul Abbas shaking hands with BC Premier Christy Clark in 2014 (BC gov photo) Republished with permission from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ Policy Note. By Marc Lee Last week, the BC government released the text of its Project Development Agreement with Pacific Northwest LNG (led by Malaysian
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: LNG opponents take to waters of Howe Sound for Flotilla
Photo: Future of Howe Sound Society View article My Sea to Sea and other groups fighting to save Howe Sound from a proposed LNG plant and dangerous tanker traffic are inviting citizens to join them on the water Saturday July 11. “Are you ready to make some noise to Save
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: New Clothes: The generational rip-off of BC LNG
A culturally modified tree tagged by LNG contractors (Graeme Pole) By Graeme Pole Thoreau said, among other things, “…beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.” Aboard the BC Ferry Northern Adventure, departing Prince Rupert and bound for Haida Gwaii, I trained my camera on the southern tip of Digby
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Dear Crusty. LNG is Volatile. It Could Even Blow Up in Your Face.
BC premier Christy Clark is in love – with British Columbia’s natural gas reserves. She sees it as a magical solution to pay off all of the province’s debts and fund wonderful new projects and services. She even imagines herself riding across northern BC on a unicorn sprinkling fairy dust
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: To the Ends of the Earth: Filmmaker One-on-One
David Lavallee talks with fellow filmmaker and Common Sense Canadian publisher Damien Gillis about the former’s project, “To the Ends of the Earth”, which connects the dots between society’s hunger for energy and the new wave of extreme fossil fuel projects wreaking havoc around the world. The two discuss the
Continue readingIn-Sights: Wild fantasies and planned deceit
It is now clear that LNG claims made by Liberals before the 2013 BC election were wild fantasies and carefully planned deceit. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives — an organization targeted for a tax audit by the Harper Government — recently published A Clear Look at LNG. The main
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: BC govt hires accounting firm to give fracking a green stamp
A storage pond in northeast BC containing fracking fluids (Image: Two Island Films) Republished with permission from the ECOreport There are credible experts who believe that, with proper regulation and enforcement, it is possible to have a trustworthy fracking industry. They also say this does not yet exist in North
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Postmedia partners with LNG lobby to sell Woodfibre LNG – latest lapse in journalistic integrity
Resource Works ED and ex-Vancouver Sun deputy editor Stewart Muir (Resource Works – Flickr CC licence) I am, as readers well know, a babe in the woods when it comes to matters of journalism. Ever naive, I read the papers in awe and know that all times they have my better understanding of
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Richmond Council, Delta MLA question Fraser River LNG tankers
Harold Steves and fellow Richmond councillors voted unanimously for a public review of LNG tankers (Damien Gillis) Richmond Council yesterday unanimously passed a motion calling for a full environmental review on plans to run over 200 LNG vessels a year up the Fraser River. The move comes in reaction to attempts by
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Shell-led LNG project for Kitimat gets conditional approval from BC
Workers on LNG Canada project (Source: Kitimat LNG) Read this June 17 story from The Globe and Mail on the conditional approval awarded to Shell-led consortium LNG Canada’s proposed terminal for Kitimat. The B.C. government has conditionally approved a liquefied natural gas project led by Royal Dutch Shell PLC. Environment Minister Mary
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Harper says LNG tankers too dangerous for East Coast, but OK for BC?
I live on Howe Sound in lovely Lions Bay. I have lived my entire life in British Columbia, growing up in Vancouver and spending much of my boyhood on this lovely fjord. Howe Sound belongs to all of us. It had been all but destroyed by industry until 20 years
Continue readingIn-Sights: Serving public or corporate interests?
The audio file below is a recording of my time with Ian Jessop June 17. We talk about LNG and resource taxation, inter-provincial cooperation on resource matters and oil spill response capability. Your browser does not support this audio
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Has fracking peaked?
Bloomberg graph shows cresting of production at major US shale oil plays Read this June 9 EcoWatch story by Aanastasia Pantsias on the declining production at the big US shale oil plays. Since fracking began its boom period in the last decade, its supporters have promoted it as the answer to all
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Petronas’ LNG project gets ‘conditional approval’, despite First Nations opposition
Ex-Petronas CEO Shamsul Abbas shaking hands with BC Premier Christy Clark in 2014 Read this June 11 Globe and Mail story by Brent Jang on the “conditional approval” given by Malaysian energy giant Petronas and its partners to their Pacific Northwest LNG project. An international consortium has committed to building a
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Rafe Mair: Civil disobedience against LNG plans is a must
Citizens line the Sea to Sky Highway to protest Woodfibre LNG (My Sea to Sky) It’s time to fish or cut bait, folks. We’ve learned that some 200 LNG tankers and barges are slated to use the lower Fraser River and the company, WesPac, doesn’t even feel the public deserves a
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Fraser River LNG tankers carry explosive risk – Last chance for public comment
How LNG Tankers would turn from from WesPac Tilbury Marine Jetty (Project Description – CEAA Summary) This article is republished with permission from The ECOreport. Building a major LNG terminal in Delta would have a big impact on the mouth of the Fraser River. The diagram at the top of this
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Steves–BC Doesn’t Need Site C Dam
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger It is incredible that our BC Liberal government, prodded along by the foreign owned LNG corporations, are still pushing ahead with building a massive Site C Dam. We do not need Read more…
Continue readingIn-Sights: Socialist hordes at the gates, this time for real
Merriam-Webster:“Socialism: a way of organizing a society in which major industries are owned and controlled by the government” For years, leaders of the BC Business Party (AKA Social Credit or Liberal) echoed W.A.C. Bennett’s 1972 warning, “The socialist hordes are at the gates of British Columbia.” Maclean’s Magazine reported in
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