Ottawa bills its planned emissions cap on oil and gas as “limiting pollution, driving innovation, and creating jobs.” That’s not at all what critics see. They forecast instead “lower production, lower exports, fewer jobs, lower GDP, and less revenues to governments to fund critical infrastructure and social programs on which Canadians rely.” That was from Lisa …
Our thanks to Resource Works for compiling the facts and figures below: The BC government draws billions in revenues from British Columbia’s natural-resource industries. The province’s latest fiscal plan looks to earn $3.2 billion from natural resources in 2024-25, up from $3 billion in 2023-24. And it forecasts $3.4 billion in 2025-26 and $3.8 billion …
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has called itself “the most authoritative global source of energy analysis and projections.” That may once have been true, but in recent years it’s open to question, especially since the IEA has taken to painting theoretical “scenarios” of energy possibilities. They’re based on what the IEA calls “stated policy scenarios …
Canadian opponents of LNG development happily pushed on social media a new study finding that liquefied natural gas leaves a greenhouse gas footprint that is “33% worse than coal” for generating electricity. But they failed to point out that it’s not applicable to our Canadian LNG. Making its finding, the Cornell University study led by …
With the B.C. election coming up October 19, here are some things that candidates need to know about First Nations, LNG development, and natural resource extraction: First, forget the myth that Indigenous Peoples largely oppose resource development. That myth should have died with a national survey in 2022 that found 65 percent of Indigenous respondents …
