Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan has been a thorn in Kinder Morgan’s side (Image: Youtube) Read this Sept. 2 Burnaby Now story by Jennifer Moreau on the lastest chapter in the City of Burnaby’s ongoing battle with Houston-based Kinder Morgan over the company’s plans to build a new pipeline through the community. The
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The Common Sense Canadian: Gitxsan clan closes territory to LNG, blockades Petronas pipeline
In an August 26 video, several hereditary chiefs and members of the Luutkudziiwus clan from the Gitxsan First Nation territory in northwest BC declared that they are constructing a camp “to stop LNG from developing their pipe through our land.” The camp lies in the path on the proposed Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) pipeline, which
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: NEB sides with Kinder Morgan, but company must respect Burnaby’s bylaws
Read this August 19 Canadian Press story via CBC.ca on the latest chapter int he ongoing battle between pipeline builder Kinder Morgan and the city of Burnaby. The National Energy Board has sided with Kinder Morgan in a dispute with the City of Burnaby over access to Burnaby Mountain. The company can proceed with
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Burnaby fires back at Kinder Morgan with constitutional challenge
Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan continues to be a thorn in Kinder Morgan’s side (Image: Youtube) Read this Aug. 11 story by Jennifer Moreau in the Burnaby Now on Burnaby Council’s latest salvo in its battle with pipeline company Kinder Morgan over drilling under Burnaby Mountain. The City of Burnaby is launching a constitutional
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Rafe: Heavy oil advertising, editorials taint Canadian mag The Walrus
Enbridge is a major Walrus sponsor (Photo: Damien Gillis) I am afraid I really am a gloomy Gus today. It has just struck me that there is an absence of good guys in the world. Whether it’s big business or government they mostly do it to us and reek of
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: MP wrong to attack West Van council over Woodbibre LNG vote
Conservative MP John Weston By Laura Anderson On August 6, 2014, John Weston took space in The Local to append his name to an op-ed criticizing West Vancouver council’s motion against an LNG plant and tanker traffic in Howe Sound. He “disagree[s] with the motion, the way it has been passed
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: To the ends of the Arctic: The new frontier of extreme energy
By David Lavallee Documentary filmmaker David Lavallee recently journeyed to Canada’s arctic for his forthcoming film, To the Ends of the Earth, which drills deep into the modern age of extreme energy. Plans to open the arctic to seismic testing are a source of growing controversy. “Nanook”, our guide Bryan Simonee
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Petronas seeks billions in federal tax handouts for BC LNG
Malaysian PM Najib Razak and Stephen Harper in Kuala Lumpur (AP/Lai Seng Sin) Read this July 24 story by Jeff Lee in the Financial Post on the federal tax concessions Malaysian energy giant Petronas is seeking for its bid to build a major pipeline and LNG near Prince Rupert. The Common Sense
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: BC, China sign deal for foreign temporary workers to build LNG facilities
Read this July 25 story from the Vancouver Sun, which undermines the BC Liberal government’s promises of jobs for British Columbians from their proposed LNG industry. The federal government’s foreign temporary worker program – which the BC Liberal government has actively encouraged – has become an increasing source of controversy over
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Keith Baldrey: Clark’s BC LNG vision nothing but a fairytale
photo: Tina Lovgreen / BCIT Commons Read this July 29 editorial by renowned BC political commentator Keith Baldrey in the Burnaby Now on the fairytale that is Christy Clark’s LNG vision. Not a week goes by, it seems, that Premier Christy Clark doesn’t talk, yet again, about the vast riches that lay
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Kinder Morgan seeks to force its way onto Burnaby Mountain
Kinder Morgan Canada President Ian Anderson at a Vancouver Board of Trade talk (photo: Kinder Morgan) Read this July 29 story by Jennifer Moreau in the Burnaby Now on Kinder Morgan’s attempt to gain support from the National Energy Board to override Burnaby Council’s denial of permits for survey work on Burnaby Mountain.
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Apache bails on Kitimat LNG as investors get cold feet
Artist’s rendering of proposed Kitimat LNG project By The Canadian Press U.S. energy firm Apache Corp. says it’s exiting the Kitimat, B.C., LNG project, which it had been developing with Chevron Corp. Houston-based Apache also plans to get rid of its interest in another major liquefied natural gas project in
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Study links extractive industries to rise in domestic abuse
A fracking drill near Dawson Creek in northeast BC (courtesy of Two Island Films) Read this July 24 Globe and Mail story by Andrea Woo on a new study which exposes one of the trade-offs associated with expanded resource development, namely an increase in violence against women. An increase in domestic and
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Rafe: Is ‘lying’ too strong a word for Clark Libs’ LNG fibs?
BC Premier Christy Clark addresses a conference on LNG (Damien Gillis) I really need your help. What the devil does one call premier Christy Clark, considering that she seems utterly incapable of telling the truth? Hers is an interesting case because her gross economy with the truth seems designed to get
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Inuit, Greenpeace team up to battle Arctic seismic testing
Greenpeace’s Les Stroud Les working with Inuit in Pond Inlet (Photo: Laura Bombier / Greenpeace) By Lee-Anne Goodman, The Canadian Press OTTAWA – Greenpeace and the Inuit have joined forces to protest Arctic seismic testing, warning that plans to gauge oil and gas reserves with high-intensity sound waves in Baffin
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Rafe: With fracking, tankers “world-class safety” is a weasel word
BC Premier Christy Clark touts “world-class” safety for fossil fuel projects (Canadian Press) Many times I have referred to Premier Clark’s demand that Enbridge and others have “world-class” cleanup processes in place. To repeat myself, these are “weasel words” and mean absolutely nothing. “World-class” firefighting procedures doesn’t mean the building
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Vaughan Palmer: BC LNG looks dicey as Asian LNG prices plunge
BC Premier Clark has made big promises about LNG which now look hard to fulfill (Photo: Flickr) Read this July 15 Vancouver Sun column from Vaughan Palmer on the sharply declining Asian price for LNG and how that undermines the BC Liberal Government’s big plans to build an LNG industry. The break
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Kinder Morgan pipeline hearings delayed by new Burnaby route
Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan has been a thorn in Kinder Morgan’s side (Image: Youtube) Read this July 15 story from Emma Gilchrist in Desmog Blog on the delay to the environmental hearings for the proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion, resulting from a late decision to re-route the pipeline through Burnaby Mountain.
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Two legal challenges filed against Northern Gateway
By The Canadian Press VANCOUVER – Two legal challenges were filed Friday against the federal cabinet’s approval of the Northern Gateway pipeline. The Gitxaala (git-HAT’-lah) First Nations, who hail from the North Coast of British Columbia, filed an application for judicial review with the Federal Court of Appeal. Ecojustice filed
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Rafe: First Nations, Constitution are Canadians’ best defence
Chiefs of the Tsimshian First Nation speak out against Enrbidge at a 2012 Prince Rupert rally Big money now rules the world. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer and the middle class gets squeezed. No government in the world is doing anything about this – least of
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