Dogwood News This Week: frack & burn

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news and action Friday July 14, 2023 The world’s largest fossil fuel conference, LNG 2023, was held in Vancouver this week.

As the world is increasingly rocked by climate change, gas execs and rich CEOs want to frack and burn more methane.

Security guards kept the public from entering the venue, including a few reporters. But dozens of Frack Free BC activists managed to plug up the entrance with a “die in”.

On cue, everybody dropped to the pavement to symbolize the rising death toll from gas-fuelled climate disasters. Oil and gas reps literally had to step around their bodies to get into their conference....

We heard a key focus of the conference is cracking open B.C.’s Montney gas formation (the sixth-largest carbon bomb on the planet). And companies like Shell and Petronas want more pipelines and gas terminals on the B.C. coast.

We can’t let gas companies lock B.C. into an economy dependent on the use and sale of fracked gas, conveniently ignoring the dwindling appetite investors are showing in fossil fuel projects.

If we do nothing, we’ll be chained to a dirty and dying product of the past while the rest of the world takes the lead into the future.
NEWS Stories we’re following

Over our dead bodies Some of the people attending the LNG conference in Vancouver this week had to watch their step on the way in. -DeSmog

Future is unclear Gas execs keep pushing for more fracked gas projects despite the uncertainty around the industry’s long-term viability. - National Observer

It was never "cheap" or "easy" As predicted, TMX is close to becoming too expensive for oil exporters to use. -Financial Post

Skipping out on the bill Unless governments force oil and gas companies to put aside profits to cover the damage their industry has caused, the public will be the ones paying their more than $123 billion bill. - National Observer

LNG Canada, interrupted Kitimat LNG camp workers vote to strike. - Vancouver is Awesome

Take shorter showers?? While the public cuts back on water usage, who’s calling out the LNG industry for the billions of litres they gobble up? - CBC Like what you're reading but aren't yet subscribed? Sign up for Dogwood News! Subscribe

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