Petronas CEO Shamsul Abbas shakes hands with BC Premier Christy Clark Read this Nov. 26 Reuters story on the BC Liberal government’s approval of multiple LNG infrastructure applications. VANCOUVER — British Columbia has approved a liquefied natural gas export terminal being developed by Malaysia’s Petronas, along with two pipelines to service
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The Common Sense Canadian: LNG, fracking and BC’s Energy future: Victoria multimedia discussion
Join The Common Sense Canadian’s Damien Gillis and Council of Canadians’ Leila Darwish for a multimedia discussion about BC’s energy future – this Wednesday evening in Victoria. Gillis, who is also co-directing the documentary film Fractured Land, will tackle the economic and environmental myths and realities of the proposed LNG industry –
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Rafe: Tough on Kinder Morgan, Corrigan & Robertson my kind of mayors
Re-elected mayors Gregor Robertson & Derek Corrigan. Photos: CP (left) / Dale Cornish/Forest Ethics (right) Derek Corrigan is my kind of mayor. So is Gregor Robertson. Both of these mayors are prepared to look beyond the immediate concerns of their city and take a broader view. I have no doubt
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Dramatic video of RCMP injunction enforcement on Burnaby Mountain
Filmmaker and Common Sense Canadian contributor Dan Pierce was on hand yesterday for the RCMP’s enforcement of a BC Supreme Court injunction to remove citizens from their Burnaby Mountain blockade of Kinder Morgan. Watch his dramatic footage here. Hours later, at approximately 10 PM last night, the Huston-based pipeline builder began
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: BREAKING: Kinder Morgan work trucks roll up Burnaby Mountain
Kinder Morgan contractors delivering construction materials to Burnaby Mountain (Salix O’Connell/facebook) Kinder Morgan contractors began rolling work trucks with construction equipment up Burnaby Mountain at approximately 10 PM on Thursday. Photographs shared on a citizen-led facebook page show trucks, trailers, fencing, and other materials and workers at the site of
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Arrests begin on Burnaby Mountain in Kinder Morgan standoff
One of the first arrests made on Burnaby Mountain (Photo: Brad Hornick/facebook) Read this Nov. 20 story from CBC.ca reporting on the first round of arrests at Burnaby Mountain since an injunction was issued last week to remove Kinder Morgan protesters. A 10 AM update posted on a facebook page
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Economist catches Kinder Morgan skimping on Canadian taxes
Kinder Morgan Canada President Ian Anderson talks a good game on Canadian benefits from his company’s proposed pipeline – but economist Robyn Allan disagrees (photo: Kinder Morgan) The following is an open letter to Premier Christy Clark from economist and former ICBC CEO Robyn Allan November 19, 2014 Dear Premier
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Keystone XL bill narrowly fails in Senate
Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (right) failed to get the Keystone XL passed Read this Nov. 18 Reuters story on the Keystone XL bill’s narrow defeat by the US Senate. (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate on Tuesday narrowly failed to pass a bill that would have approved construction of
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Burnaby will stop Kinder Morgan pipeline in court, re-elected Burnaby Mayor Corrigan vows
Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan continues his tough stand against Kinder Morgan (Photo: Vimeo) Read this Nov. 18 story from The Vancouver Sun on newly re-elected Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan’s vow to stop Kinder Morgan’s pipeline expansion proposal through the courts – urging citizens not to get arrested in defiance of a recent injunction.
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Bloomberg: Russia-China gas deals spell big trouble for Canadian LNG
Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping may be putting Canada’s LNG industry out of business before it’s even built Read this Nov. 10 story from business news leader Bloomberg on the increased pressure deals between Russia and China for natural gas are placing on would-be LNG exporters – especially Canada. Based
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Govt fears losing LNG, fracking social licence to social media: Internal briefing note
Rich Coleman tries to conjure up some good LNG PR with this youtube video (BC govt youtube page) The BC government is worried it can’t control the way fracking and liquefied natural gas (LNG) are being criticized through social media, documents obtained through a Freedom of Information request reveal. As a result, the
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: The Law is an Ass: Rafe on Burnaby citizens’ loss to Kinder Morgan
Kinder Morgan contractors clash with citizen protestor on Burnaby Mountain (Darryl Dyck/CP) “If the Law says that”, said Mr. Bumble, “the Law is an ass”. The good citizens of Burnaby have lost their case against the large international corporation, Houston-based Kinder Morgan, who wish to extend their pipeline from Alberta to Burnaby.
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Ernst wins right to sue Alberta govt over fracking water contamination
Environmental consultant Jessica Ernst on her land in Alberta (Colin Smith photo) An Alberta woman has the right to sue the provincial environment ministry for allegedly failing to properly investigate water contamination she says Encana’s hydraulic fracturing caused on her property, a Calgary judge has ruled. Jessica Ernst launched a
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Nisga’a Nation community members protest LNG deal
Petronas’ proposed Pacific Northwest LNG project – the source of partnership talks with the Nisga’a Nation Read this Nov. 10 Tyee story by Wawmeesh G. Hamilton on the grassroots cracks forming in a proposed deal between a Nisga’a Nation elected leaders, TransCanada Pipelines and Pacific Northwest LNG – the $11 Billion project planned for
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Kinder Morgan may win in court, but it’s quickly losing social licence
Citizens protest Kinder Morgan outside BC Supreme Court (Photo: AJ Klein/facebook) Houston-based pipeline giant Kinder Morgan may obtain an injunction from the BC Supreme Court today to remove protestors from their Burnaby Mountain blockade of the company’s exploratory work. In all likelihood, it will also secure a positive verdict from
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Rafe: Shell promises “green” LNG…we can trust them, right?
Christy Clark and Marvin Odum, President Shell Oil Company at recent BC LNG conference (BC govt flickr) I’m sure, like me, you were excited to read in the Vancouver Sun for November 4 that LNG Canada (Shell and its Asian partners) will build a plant in Kitimat which will be
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Former Hydro head pulls out of NEB’s “farcical” Kinder Morgan hearings
Read this Nov. 3 story from CBC.ca on former BC Hydro boss Mark Eliesen’s decision to drop out of the Kinder Morgan The former head of BC Hydro, Marc Eliesen, has pulled out of the federal hearings on the proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline project. In a scathing letter to the
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: 94% opposition to Woodfibre from municipal candidates answering LNG survey
Rendering of proposed Woodfibre LNG project near Squamish, BC Of the 31 candidates who responded to a recent questionnaire on the controversial Woodfibre LNG proposal for Howe Sound, 29 – or 94% – were opposed. The survey, conducted by Propeller Strategy, was presented by phone or email to all 98 candidates
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: BC LNG takes another hit as UK gas giant BG Group gets cold feet
An open house for BG Group’s proposed Prince Rupert LNG project (princerupertgas.com) Read this Oct. 29 Globe and Mail story on BG Group’s decision to reconsider its investment in BC’s LNG industry – the latest in a series of companies to get cold feet, including Encana, EOG, and Apache Corp. BG Group PLC
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Shell Game: Public being fooled by great BC LNG illusion
We are allowing ourselves to be mesmerized over Liquified Natural Gas (LNG). Perhaps we’re doing this to ourselves but the sad fact is that the government’s total ineptitude is not the only story. Not that that isn’t a big story. In fact, it was magnified last week when the Liberals set
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