Looking for a real dialogue? The news last week about the provincial ministers’ rubber-stamping of Woodfibre LNG to please their boss in Victoria is not acceptable. Where are the concerns of the people that had spoken against it with mainly safety concerns? They were not properly addressed, which is just like triple-deleted, using the new rules of Victoria.
Canada is sliding into Banana Republic status. The Environmental Assessment Office and Oil and Gas Commission with their paycheques coming from Victoria are the proof.
CNG – compressed natural gas – should be our focus, not LNG (liquefied natural gas). Spending money on future renewable green energy is how to succeed. In a transition period, CNG could help lessen the cost of commuting. Some greedy people are trying to pilfer, exporting our treasures and not giving us access to them at a reasonable cost first. Only surplus resources should be sold to the world. Canada should not pollute with LNG.
Some people’s eyes are open now and they will make themselves heard in a few years, after the fallout to come if it is not stopped in time.
Reducing energy costs with the lesser evil called CNG is absolutely necessary for the time being. On Nov. 6, the world is invited to China to learn about their CNG economy and with it, the tremendous benefits for their citizens. I bet most people here don’t know about it. Our local energy provider’s name to many is “The Gas Monopolists” because their minds are set only on bigger profits through LNG and big-volume wholesale exploitation of Canada’s resources, rather then providing CNG to the public. They should be looking at how to supply basic household gas at a reasonable cost to us.
CNG could be available to the public right now here. It is passing through our neighbourhoods at high pressure. It would be a great blessing, save a lot of money to the commuters and help us heat our homes for less, likely even attracting industry to set up here. We could readily be using it until the “green revolution” is in full swing.
The sad part, when we look back one day, will be the opportunities Canada has missed by not supporting the change and actively working on it to speed up the process. Our youth are the ones that will unknowingly pay for it.
Hans Schaer
Squamish
