The Kwantlen Student Association is contributing $6,000 to the project
With some financial support from the Kwantlen Student Association, the Kwantlen First Nation is planning a building project meant to throw an obstacle in the way of the Kinder Morgan pipeline.
The KSA will contribute $6,000 towards a healing lodge that will be constructed on Kwantlen First Nation Territory, directly in the path of the planned oil pipeline. The build is expected to begin in August with the lodge to be fully functional by September.
The last time Site C was fully reviewed by the BC Utilities Commission, it was 1983. The commission investigated for just over a year and ultimately concluded that Site C was unneeded and recommended BC Hydro begin investigating alternative energy sources in earnest.
Thirty-four years later, with sunk costs increasing every day, the Site C review ordered this week by the new NDP government has an unusual urgency. But the questions on the dam’s economics are complex with a huge amount of data to be examined. The review needs to be quick, but not too quick.
British Columbians should not be lamenting Petronas’ decision to pull its Pacific Northwest Liquified Natural Gas proposal. Instead, they should be celebrating the demise of a project built on bad economics, climate change denial and wishful thinking.
A few pundits have told the Petronas story as a tragedy. Some are blaming the new NDP government, others their B.C. Liberal predecessors for not moving faster to land a deal.
When Dave Barrett led the NDP to victory and became premier in September 1972, Vancouver was in the midst of a freeway revolt. East Vancouver and Chinatown residents had united against the planned downtown freeway and third crossing to the North Shore.
This week, just seven days after B.C. Premier John Horgan and his NDP cabinet were sworn in, global energy heavyweight Petroliam Nasional Bhd killed its mega-project Pacific NorthWest LNG, citing poor market conditions.
RICHMOND – Police arrested two protesters blocking a gate at the Kinder Morgan Terminal in Richmond on Monday orning, during a demonstration against the company’s planned expansion of the Trans Mountain Tar Sands Pipeline in Canada.
After the arrests at about 10 a.m., two other gates were still blocked at the facility on Canal Boulevard, but police said they would not be taking any others into custody.
RICHMOND – Police arrested two protesters blocking a gate at the Kinder Morgan Terminal in Richmond on Monday orning, during a demonstration against the company’s planned expansion of the Trans Mountain Tar Sands Pipeline in Canada.
After the arrests at about 10 a.m., two other gates were still blocked at the facility on Canal Boulevard, but police said they would not be taking any others into custody.
