BC LNG bigger than Tar Sands? Export licences face Cabinet review
BC LNG applications dwarf oil pipeline proposals and Tar Sands production, but receive only a fraction of the attention. On Monday, the same day the news broke that Kinder Morgan…
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National Energy Board approves 4 LNG export licences for 25 years
Petronas/Progress’ proposed LNG project near Prince Rupert, BC obtained 1 of 4 25-yr export licences CALGARY – The National Energy Board has approved applications by four companies for 25-year licences…
BC slashing royalties, taxes for LNG in closed-door negotiations
BC Natural Gas Minister Rich Coleman (Damien Gillis) Read this Oct. 7 story from The Vancouver Sun on the BC Liberal government’s scheme to lower natural gas royalties and taxes…
With LNG, Asian takeovers of Canadian energy assets still booming
Asian investment explodes in BC’s LNG market, rivalling the scale of resource development in the tarsands, as new trade deals threaten to entrench foreign state ownership of Canada’s key energy…
LNG in a Nutshell
Damien Gillis stitches together the big picture of the impacts of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and the fracking from which it would derive if the BC Liberal Government’s vision to…
Chinese company looks to fuel trucks with LNG plants in Vancouver, Edmonton
Read this Nov. 19 story from The Vancouver Sun on Chinese-owned company ENN Canada’s plan to build liquefied natural gas plants in Vancouver and Edmonton to provide fuel for the…
LNG companies change pipeline routes to avoid bear sanctuaries
photo: Ian McAllister/Pacific Wild Valhalla Wilderness Society is reporting that a pair of proposed natural gas pipelines connected to liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals planned for Prince Rupert will no…
Premier Christy Clark defends LNG industry’s carbon footprint
photo: Tina Lovgreen / BCIT Commons Read this Nov. 13 story from CBC.ca on BC Premier Christy Clark’s response to mounting concerns over the massive carbon footprint associated with her…
Regulator, Encana sued over fracking, water
Vancouver-based environmental law firm ecojustice announced a lawsuit Wednesday in BC court against the province’s oil and gas regulator over its allegedly unlawful issuance of water permits for fracking. The…
Chinese state-owned oil company joint BC LNG hunt
State-owned CNOOC is making a play on BC LNG (Canadian Press) Read this Nov. 12 story from The Globe and Mail on the latest contestant in BC’s gas rush –…
Map shows multiple proposed oil, gas pipelines in BC’s carbon corridor
A new map (scroll down to view) reveals the full scope of oil and gas pipelines proposed to criss-cross BC. Compiled by Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition and Skeena Wild, the…
LNG & Fracking: Risky Business for BC – Nov 18, Vancouver
The BC Government is touting liquefied natural gas (LNG) extracted by fracking as so profitable it could eliminate the provincial debt. But fracking to export LNG has questionable economics, and…
BC struggles to reconcile carbon emissions with “clean” LNG claims
Australia’s Colongra gas-powered electrical plant – BC LNG would be powered by carbon-intensive plants like this one VICTORIA – Like the underground shale gas that Premier Christy Clark says will…
Rafe: Gordon Wilson finds religion on LNG…for $12,500 a month
A screen capture from Gordon Wilson’s youtube endorsement of Christy Clark Some years ago I got into hot water for calling a federal cabinet minister of the female persuasion a…
Protestors stage mock fracking on premier’s lawn
photo courtesy of Maryam Adrangi’s facebook page VANCOUVER – Opponents of the British Columbia government’s liquefied natural gas plans set up a three-metre mock fracking rig on the premier’s front…
Of Gas and Quakes
It’s often interesting when two inter-related news stories come out on the same day. There were two such reports today. One conveyed a warning from Canada’s insurance sector that a…
Conservative Senators Controversy Is A Convenient Dodge From Real Issues Facing Canada
Dorothy Field-Cowichan Conversations Contributor The senators in question have done exactly what Harper appointed them to do – trumpet the Conservative brand at tax payers expense. Harper and the PMO…
Will new Water Act rein in groundwater use for fracking, LNG?
Frack water pit in BC’s Horn River Basin (photo: Damien Gillis) By Anna Novacek – republished from Energy Law BC As the only province in Canada that does not regulate…
Malaysian LNG Promise Is Actually A Massive BC Giveaway
There was a curious interchange heard during ‘Debates on Budget Estimates’ last May. BC Energy Minister Rich Coleman explained to BC NDP Energy Critic John Horgan that he could not…
Malaysian LNG promise is actually a massive BC giveaway
What was touted as a $36 Billion investment commitment by Malaysian LNG giant Petronas is actually a massive giveaway of natural gas by BC – valued at up to $400…