Fortis LNG compression station near Fraser River (beige tank) – courtesy of Eoghan Moriarty/RealHearings.org The following is republished with permission from The ECOReport. by Roy Hales Major energy project slipping past the public The National Energy Board has already granted an export license, to US based WesPac Midstream, for a facility
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The Common Sense Canadian: Geologist: Minister inflating shale gas, LNG potential by 6 fold – threatening BC’s energy security
BC Minister of Natural Gas Rich Coleman The following rebuttal from geoscientist David Hughes to BC Minister of Natural Gas Rich Coleman is republished with permission from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The minister has been vocal about Mr. Hughes’ recent report on LNG, published by the CCPA. After a
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Rafe Mair’s Modest Proposal: Scrap environmental assessments
The 3-member NEB Joint Review Panel for the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline (Damien Gillis) Do you enjoy being a raw hypocrite? Well, if you’re a taxpayer in Canada that’s what you are because you support raw hypocrisy every day in the various hearings on environmental matters that take place.
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Premier Clark spews more hot air with LNG non-announcent
Premier Christy Clark announcing…the same thing she’s announced many times before (BC Government) For all the fanfare of yesterday’s press conference, you’d think Premier Christy Clark would have some big, new development to announce for her much-vaunted but yet-to-be-built LNG industry. Sorry folks, nothing to see here. All Clark had
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Gitxsan members to block LNG meeting
Gitxsan members blockade Highway 16 last December (Photo submitted) Read this May 20 story by Alicia Bridges in Smithers Interior News on plans by grassroots Gitxsan members and hereditary chiefs to block a pro-LNG info session being held by the Gitxsan Development Corporation, the province and industry tomorrow. Gitxsan LNG pipeline
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Lax Kw’alaams rejects Billion-dollar LNG deal; Lake Babine signs paltry one
Lelu Island and Flora Bank (fore) – site of contentious proposed LNG plant (Skeena Watershed Conservation) The BC Liberal government and LNG industry suffered a blow this week with a final losing vote amongst Lax Kw’alaams Band members over a billion-dollar package offered to support Petronas’ Pacific NorthWest LNG plant near Prince
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Rafe: Woodfibre LNG is bad business for BC
Except briefly, let’s avoid environmental questions about Woodfibre LNG for today and concentrate on fiscal matters. Even if Woodfibre LNG was an environmental bonus to Howe Sound and the surrounding communities; even if it was clean as a whistle, its plant and accoutrements safe as a church, and the tanker
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Premier Christy Clark’s miserable record is finally catching up with her. It is Fire Sale time in BC!
Richard Hughes–Cowichan Conversations I have always been amazed as to how the BC Liberals along with their far right conservative friends in Ottawa manage to snow the citizen taxpayers with the fabrication that they are wise and capable handlers of our economy. Nothing could be further from the truth. Premier
Continue readingNorthern Insight / Perceptivity: Liberal transparency: secret agreements, no oversight
If politicians become so focused on reaping rewards for themselves, their friends and associates, they begin to act as British Columbia Liberals are acting now. Like furtive night prowlers, government members seek the cover of darkness. Publicly owned lands and natural resources have values minimized or ignored, then are privatized
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Woodfibre LNG: Shady PR, lobby violations, fraudulent, eco-criminal owner…Is this the kind of business BC wants to welcome?
Sukanto Tanoto (right), the man behind the proposed Woodfibre LNG project The war against an LNG plant in Squamish is heating up, and as the late singer Al Jolson said, “You ain’t seen nothin yet.” Know that on this issue, I am not in any way independent. Along with thousands
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Damien Gillis–A Primer–LNG In A Nutshell
Damien Gillis clearly explains the processes of producing the so called clean LNG fuel.
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Rafe–The reason why the NDP cannot win the next election is because of three little letters, LNG
Richard Hughes–Cowichan Conversations Cowichan Conversations is pleased to feature this post from Rafe Mair. Rafe has had a long and distinguished career that includes time as an MLA, Cabinet Minister and later as an award winning broadcaster, talk show host, successful author, and blogger. Rafe is all about politics and
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Rafe: Vancouver Sun keeps shilling for “clean” LNG, Woodfibre plant
Christy Clark promotes “Clean LNG” at Vancouver conference last year (David P. Ball/The Tyee) The Vancouver Sun – rapidly becoming, if it hasn’t already become the “Pravda” of Vancouver – has done it again with another article supporting LNG and the proposed Squamish plant. This one is by a father and
Continue readingNorthern Insight / Perceptivity: Murphy’s Law applies, universally
The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History: The EAST OHIO GAS CO. EXPLOSION AND FIRE took place on Friday, 20 Oct. 1944, when a tank containing liquid natural gas equivalent to 90 million cubic feet exploded, setting off the most disastrous fire in Cleveland’s history. Homes and businesses were engulfed by a
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Ret. Navy Commander torpedoes LNG lobby’s tanker safety story
“Oh, what a tangled web we weave…when first we practice to deceive.” ― Sir Walter Scott One Stewart Muir is the executive director of Resource Works, an elite organization formed to tout Woodfibre LNG. Muir was once the business editor and deputy managing editor of the Vancouver Sun, thus the
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Rafe: All hands on deck for Howe Sound as LNG storm brews
Boaters raise the alarm over plans to re-industrialize Howe Sound (Future of Howe Sound Society) Howe Sound needs the help of all British Columbians and it needs it now. The proposed Woodfibre LNG plant in Squamish has got some very powerful allies. Both governments support it. That means that there’s
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Last day for public comments on Woodfibre LNG proposal
Rendering of proposed Woodfibre LNG project near Squamish, BC Citizens have until Midnight Monday to submit their comments to the current phase of environmental assessment into the controversial Woodfibre LNG proposal, near Squamish. The project and its Indonesian billionaire proponent Sukanto Tanoto have garnered intense scrutiny from citizen groups, First Nations
Continue readingNorthern Insight / Perceptivity: LNG in Howe Sound – Dr. Eoin Finn
Eoin (Owen) Finn B.Sc.,Ph.D., MBA, a 30 year resident of Bowyer Island, Howe Sound, retired KPMG consultant. From Vancouver Observer
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: A PR Flack’s Guide to LNG: Dream Team tries to repair industry’s image
Clockwise from top left: Teck’s Doug Horswill, Stewart Muir, former A-G Geoff Plant, and Lyn Anglin It’s an axiom of debate that if you don’t like the argument you’re in, find one that you’re more comfortable with. Barristers use this technique before juries all the time and that’s precisely the
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Rafe: Joe Oliver says fracking is safe, so it must be
Rafe has seen the light! Nice to see that Rafe Mair has come to his senses and is now backing the corporate toadies, aka the Harper Cabinet and the light headed Finance Minister Joe Oliver aka ‘Chuckles’. They are all joyfully promoting LNG and spending our money doing it. It is a
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