Looks good for the Lieberals huh......yeah they just lost Quebec after a 15 year hold on power....lots of egg on the drama teachers face there and lots of forboding come the next Federal election in La Belle Province.
As for BC it is nothing but HYPOCRACY......all of those TANKERS hauling liquified natural gas will obviously has no impact upon the PRECIOUS BC coast....nope they wont impact killer whales etc.....BECAUSE the NDP get to wet their beak for the ROYALTIES of the natural gas.....something they did not get for the Transmountain expansion.....the BC NDP of course did not have the balls to say that though.....we are opposed to the pipeline because we are not getting a share of Alberta resource revenue.
Dont count those chickens as in the proverbial coop just yet as you are dealing with the NDP and the Greens that are propping them up.The Greens are DEMANDING electoral change and they want PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION.....as soon as they dont get it they will RIP out their support for the NDP and then BC will face a snap election.
On a side note now the residents of BC get to deal with US funded special interest groups like the Tides Foundation and the Sierra Club who will scream blue murder about how this LNG project will hurt "Mother Earth".....and right from inside of beautifull BC is where that wellspring of opposition will spring up.You will get lawsuits and court challenges all the way to the supreme court.You will deal with blockades and angry hypocrite enviro nutjobs who consume natural gas BUT dont want a BIG LNG project being built.
HAVE FUN WITH IT........the actual completion time is 10 years but good fuckin luck on that....I figure it will not even take a week before some First Nations group objects to it with the idea to shake down the project for a shitload of money.
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What happens if a natural gas line breaks or leaks? Or if LNG is exposed to air? It dissipates into the atmosphere and doesn't pollute soil or water like crude or bitumen. So while it still isn't good, there is no clean up required or lasting impact on the immediate environment.
Kitimat is well north of the range of the endangered southern resident killer whales - so the noise created by the tankers is a non issue.
All the effected First Nations have already agreed to the project - so again non issue.
The BC NDP don't require the support of the Greens for the project because the BC Liberals will.
Proportional representation is completely unrelated, it is a referendum question, so it will be up to voters to decide and the consensus is that support is waning.
I believe the completion date is 2023-2024, so certainly not a decade away and it is meant to provide jobs to British Columbians not only during construction, but ongoing jobs to operate the plant as well as in the gas fields. Not to mention the $500 million a year in tax revenue for the province.
