Blog: CAPE and CANE take the cake
A dramatic billboard went up last week at the Tsawwassen ferry terminal in which a group of BC doctors and nurses asked “How healthy is natural gas?” They provided their own one-sided answer to that question in a news release that announced: “Today, physicians and nurses are raising the alarm—and billboards—over the significant harms to…
Blog: What if money is not the answer?
Ken Coates, University of Saskatchewan professor and Munk Senior Fellow in Aboriginal and Northern Canadian Issues at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute, has long been a friend of the Alliance. Let us then, for our newest blog, reproduce his latest column for the Institute: What if money is not the answer for Indigenous communities? Coates writes: The…
Blog: BC LNG projects respect environment
Soon after the Ksi Lisims LNG project filed its official project description with regulatory authorities, a knee-jerk letter to the editor appeared on Vancouver Island, decrying the project’s potential impact on the global environment. No mention, of course, as to how the Nisga’a-led project itself plans to be Net Zero within three years, and no…
Blog: Stand by for more Treaty 8 challenges
The “bombshell” court decision that held BC violated treaty rights of the Blueberry River First Nations is sending shockwaves into other treaty regions — especially in Alberta. Justice Emily M. Burke of BC Supreme Court ruled that decades of “cumulative” resource developments approved by BC infringed on Blueberry rights under Treaty 8 of 1899. Treaty…
LNG: good for many years yet
We almost enjoy those gloomy predictions that the LNG industry is soon to die; wishful thinking from green enthusiasts that seem to envision that the world will be all-renewables by the middle of next week, and using hydrogen as its primary fuel, world-wide, by the following weekend. The transition to renewables and hydrogen is real…
