Major pipelines over budget, cancelled or facing fierce opposition
Just three days before Christmas, British Columbians received a surprise gift: a pipeline rejection. The BC Utilities Commission denied the application by FortisBC to build a $327 million gas pipeline in the fast-growing south Okanagan.
The UN Climate talks ended with a global commitment to transition away from fossil fuels and Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault celebrated Canada’s leadership role in negotiating the agreement.
One of the biggest climate stories in Canada in 2024 might well prove to be a project that, so far at least, few in the country have heard of — Ksi Lisims LNG.
We need a mass movement to ensure a just transition and prevent climate breakdown. But such contestations can go very wrong.
The people in power are not acting on climate breakdown. Which presents us, those not in power, with three options. We change the actions of those in power, we change the people in power or we change the nature of power itself.
The federal government faced fierce external pressure to abandon or weaken its plan to cap oil and gas sector emissions from provincial governments and industry lobby groups in the lead-up to its announcement last week.
![BC Premier David Eby: ‘Until we find ways to produce steel without [metallurgical coal], it is a good product to be exported from British Columbia.’ Photo via BC government.](https://ecosocialistsvancouver.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/article-image/davideby.jpg?itok=eQtoGeqS)
