“One hardly expects the Clark govt to be paragons of political integrity, but on such an important matter as natural gas, the truth is essential to understand our fiscal future.”
The BC Liberal government’s propaganda machine is in overdrive in an attempt to sell its faltering LNG strategy. Kevin Logan explodes the myths trumpeted in a fake “LNG Quiz” and other marketing efforts.
Despite all their promises of a $100 billion “Prosperity Fund” from LNG, the Clark government has once again delayed announcing the tax structure required to make it all happen.
Shale gas expert David Hughes says Canadian governments and energy regulators are catastrophically miscalculating the gas available for LNG exports, while ignoring the implications of increased fracking.
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 energy assets.
BC is caught between a rock and a hard place in balancing its hunger for a burgeoning liquefied natural gas industry and meeting its ambitious 2007 greenhouse gas pollution-reduction targets.
Rafe Mair calls former BC Liberal leader and NDP Cabinet Minister Gordon Wilson a “political whore” for taking $12,500 a month to promote LNG – after criticizing its economic and environmental problems.
What was presented as a $36 Billion investment commitment by Malaysian LNG giant Petronas is actually a giveaway of up to $400 Billion from BC and Natural Gas MInister Rich Coleman.
The extraordinary claims being levied by the Liberals on BC LNG have gone largely unquestioned – which is why all this week, we’ll be drilling down on their policy through exclusive stories and events.