Dear Sir;
I cannot understand why so many folks who understand supply and demand are keen on LNG.
The plants are energy pigs. The plants could use more electricity than produced by the proposed site C dam.
That seems like more bad news for my two-tiered hydro bill and smart metre.
LNG only happens if the companies holding leases to frack B.C. gas get more money for it in offshore markets.
I am sure that we will also pay more, that is how globalization works.
Look at Australia. They are about 12 years into LNG and already looking to import gas for domestic markets.
There is a lot more to running an economy than jumping from mega project to mega project.
For LNG there is no legacy fund, no royalties, and LNG will make every family and business pay more each month for gas and electricity.
Some mega projects are good, some are bad, and some need to install scrubbers.
Likewise, some growth is bad; it will make your bills higher, pollute your neighbourhood, burn, bottle and sell-off the stuff that heats our homes.
No wonder the B.C. Liberal government has not told people about the increases to cost of living in a post LNG market.
If international economics isn’t the nail in the LNG coffin, I believe domestic economics has a fighting chance.
It has already come out in the news that the provincial Liberal government has made agreements with the proponents so they don’t pay any money for B.C. gas until the plant is paid off.
They will also allow temporary foreign workers to build these projects.
Slow clap for the best negotiations team ever!
I hope the Liberals get tossed in May and I hope the NDP start telling people that Clark’s LNG unicorn is more akin to Don Quixote’s donkey.
Mikael Jensen,
Terrace, B.C.