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Woodfibre LNG President Outlines Tanker Routes, Supports Open House in Gibsons
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- Written by Beverly Saunders Beverly Saunders
- Category: News News
- Published: 25 March 2015 25 March 2015
Federal Government Supports LNG with Tax Incentives
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- Written by Beverly Saunders Beverly Saunders
- Category: News News
- Published: 20 February 2015 20 February 2015
Sometimes it is best to just let the government speak for itself!
(Feb 19, 2015) Premier Christy Clark and Deputy Premier Rich Coleman today welcomed Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s action to enhance the competitiveness of B.C.’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry through a new tax relief. “This is great news for the creation of LNG jobs in British Columbia, and great news for Canada,” said Premier Christy Clark. “We have been working with the federal government and industry for some time to achieve this outcome, and I am pleased they have delivered today.
While BC Promotes LNG and Site C Dam, Report Shows Potential Geothermal Energy to Power Entire Province
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- Written by Beverly Saunders Beverly Saunders
- Category: News News
- Published: 21 October 2014 21 October 2014
While the BC Ministry of Environment continues to promote the LNG (liquified natural gas) industry as the world's cleanest and decisions are being made to build a third dam in the Peace River Valley, a new report from CanGEA (Canadian Geothermal Energy Association) shows that BC has the potential to power the entire province with geothermal energy.
Clark Govt in Over its Head with Big LNG Players
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- Written by Rafe Mair Rafe Mair
- Category: Rafe here... Rafe here...
- Published: 01 October 2014 01 October 2014
Many long years ago, when I was in first year Law, we learned a case called the Carbolic Smoke Ball case. This involved a patent medicine and great claims were made for its virtues. There was a lawsuit because a user of this patent medicine was not satisfied with the result, which he said was nil. This was apropos in those days, since in B.C. we were constantly exhorted to buy Dodds Kidney Pills, which had nothing to do with kidneys, and Carter’s Little Liver Pills, which had dick-all to do with livers.
Rafe: Is ‘lying’ too strong a word for Clark Libs’ LNG fibs?
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- Written by Rafe Mair Rafe Mair
- Category: Uncategorised Uncategorised
- Published: 25 July 2014 25 July 2014
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 her away from whatever her current difficulty is, onto something different. Whether this amounts to “lying” in the accepted sense of that term, I don’t know. “Disassembling”? “Fibbing”?
Counter-summit exposes true impacts of BC's LNG pipe dreams
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- Written by Beverly Saunders Beverly Saunders
- Category: News News
- Published: 22 May 2014 22 May 2014
From May 21st to 23rd, the BC government and the oil and gas industry are converging on Vancouver to hold a large Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) summit. In response, the Council of Canadians and the Wilderness Committee are hosting a night of powerful speakers from the frontlines of community resistance to fracking, pipelines and LNG, who will expose the true impacts of extracting and exporting Liquefied Fracked Gas (LFG).
All Our Eggs in the LNG Basket is Short Sited
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- Written by Beverly Saunders Beverly Saunders
- Category: Editorial Editorial
- Published: 19 February 2014 19 February 2014
A lot of British Columbia's economic future is riding on the LNG liquid natural gas industry. Premier Clark has caught the LNG bug and has put a lot of stock in that industry making money for all of BC.
But it may be a little too late. Lots of other countries are now on the same bandwagon and the competition is fierce. Meanwhile the Asian market which is the major importer of LNG is working hard to become self-sufficient and some are predicting that they will stop importing the gas before the BC facilites are even built.
2014 BC Budget Long on LNG While Short on Environment
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- Written by Beverly Saunders Beverly Saunders
- Category: News News
- Published: 18 February 2014 18 February 2014
The British Columbia 2014 Budget shows a reliance on an as yet unrealized liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry while coming up short on plans to protect the BC environment. Like past government messaging on LNG, the budget promises an industry that will benefit British Columbians, but remains incredibly vague on the specifics of how this will be accomplished.
LNG Facility Proposal for Howe Sound Has Serious Impacts and Gives the Public Little Information or Input
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- Written by Beverly Saunders Beverly Saunders
- Category: Letters to the Editor Letters to the Editor
- Published: 08 January 2014 08 January 2014
The Government of B.C. has requested substitution of the Environmental Assessment process regarding the proposed LNG business for Howe Sound, B.C. The proposed LNG vessel transit route would require LNG tankers to enter Howe Sound running past busy Horseshoe Bay.
This proposal shows an ocean going vessel, around the size of an aircraft carrier, 295 m long, 47m wide with a draught depth of 12m, having capacity to carry up to 180,000m3 of LNG with a dead weight tonnage of 85,000 tonnes, running through our marine highway, in the path of B.C. Ferries. This will seriously disrupt the 64 plus daily BC Ferry sailings, and our way of life. This is not acceptable.