BC can't leave climate out of the LNG debate
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- Published on Wednesday, 23 July 2014 13:20
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BC can’t leave climate out of the LNG debate
PAOV,
The time has come to chime in on the gas industry’s plan for Squamish and the Salish Sea!
Woodfibre LNG is proposing to construct a liquefied natural gas (LNG) production and transfer facility right outside Squamish, on the beautiful shores of the Salish Sea at Howe Sound. As you already know, I think LNG facilities should actually be referred to as LFG plants, for “liquefied FRACKED gas”!
Nine out of 10 of the gas wells supplying proposed plants like this would use the dangerous extraction method of fracking. The reports about this damaging industry keep rolling in: fracking BC to the level proposed will be a disaster for our climate.
We have been supporting the local opposition group in Squamish called “My Sea to Sky” in their efforts to get the word out about just how destructive these LNG facilities are to our climate and our communities. At their recent town hall meeting, I met community members face-to-face and had meaningful conversations about the proposal and its consequences for the future of Squamish.
Woodfibre LNG has officially applied to the BC Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) for a permit to build the proposed plant. Public comments are being accepted in two separate stages, and the first is currently open.
Right now we have a chance to provide feedback on the scope of the upcoming assessment, and which factors will be considered by the EAO. Our friends at My Sea to Sky have created this useful information page on the process.
The EAO calls the individual factors that they will be considering “Valued Components,” and Woodfibre has already made its submission on what those components should be. The company has very cleverly identified climate-changing greenhouse gases as an issue, but not one that is important enough to be a full “Valued Component”.
They mention that the plant will run on hydroelectricity, but ignore that it is fed by carbon-intensive fracked gas. They also ignore the damage that all that fracked gas will have on our climate when it’s burned overseas.
That’s why I’m asking you to take action now, by demanding that climate change play a more significant role in this conversation. Please use the EAO portal here and tell the BC government that they’d better take a proper look at the climate impacts of this crazy project.
There are only a few days left to participate in this comment period – feedback must be submitted by Sunday, July 27!
Thank you for continuing to stand up for the climate and the future of the Salish Sea.
Cheers,
Eoin Madden | Climate Campaigner
Wilderness Committee
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