With the longterm decline of fossil fuel markets, Canada should abandon old-economy pipeline projects like Energy East and Kinder Morgan and focus on the booming green economy, argues Will Dubitsky.
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Continue readingA recent Vancouver Sun editorial titled “In defence of oil industry” shows parent company and partner of the oil and gas sector Postmedia’s true colours, says Rafe Mair.
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Continue readingRussian scientists who studied the severe decline of salmon run, attributed to an LNG plant, warn BC could face a similar disaster with Petronas’ proposed Lelu Island LNG plant.
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Continue readingTechnical arguments and sham hearings on the merits and risks of pipelines and tankers miss the point, argues Rafe Mair.
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Continue readingPlans for LNG terminals near Prince Rupert break all the big international safety rules, putting lives at risk. But you wouldn’t know it listening to the government or industry, says Graeme Pole.
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Continue readingThe BC Liberal government has come out in opposition to Kinder Morgan’s proposed pipeline expansion to Burnaby, stating that the company has failed to meet the province’s five conditions.
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Continue readingThe Clark Liberals’ broken LNG promises should make for a rough ride this coming election year, says Rafe Mair – but can John Horgan and the NDP capitalize?
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Continue readingAfter demonstrating her incompetence on the LNG file and all things governing-related, Rafe Mair has a suggestion for Premier Christy Clark of a job she’s actually well-qualified for.
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Continue readingTsawwassen has become the latest First Nation to reject the promises of LNG prosperity, voting 74-65 yesterday against plans for a 5 million tonne/year terminal on their reserve.
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Continue readingAsian LNG prices are set to continue their slide to well below the break-even point for BC exports. Leading analysts see them dropping to the $4-5/unit range over 2016-2017, chilling BC LNG hopes.
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Continue readingA vote by Tsawwassen First Nations for a local LNG plant would not only pollute their own community, argues Keving Washbrook, but it would mean more fracking in Northeast BC and help justify Site C Dam.
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Continue readingA diverse group of Kispiox Valley residents – doctors, farmers, loggers, business owners, guide outfitters – have banded together to stop a pipeline for Petronas’ proposed LNG project, as construction ramps up.
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Continue readingAfter 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 readingAfter 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 readingBCNDP 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
Continue readingGitxsan 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 readingJustin Trudeau visits US Capital in 2013 (Susan Walsh/Associated Press) It’s official: After seven years of withering on the vine, the Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta to the US Gulf Coast is dead, by President Barack Obama’s hand. Newly-minted Canadian Prime Minister and avowed Keystone supporter Justin Trudeau is reportedly disappointed
Continue readingPhoto: 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 readingUnist’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 readingFive year-old River Summer looks on at Brenot Creek landslide (Photo: Leigh Summer) A series of landslides above the northeast BC community of Hudson’s Hope has been dumping contaminated soils into several local creeks, extending now to the Peace River. Local landowners whose water supply has been affected are demanding answers.
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