With fires still raging in California, Canadian media and government attention seemed to have moved on. Why? Are they unwilling to face the facts that building more oil and gas projects are harder and harder propositions when we can see floods all over the planet, and whole LA neighbourhoods lost…
Considerations for grades: 1) Opposes approval of new LNG projects: The BC NDP’s platform makes no mention of stopping LNG, instead “Using a portion of the revenue raised from oil and gas development, including LNG projects, we’ll establish a Clean Economy Transition Fund…”.(1) Which reads like far-in-the-future-it-is-a-problem attitude. The BC…
Update March 2024 – TERMPOL review still not done, while LNG project has started construction. A TERMPOL review done by the Transport Canada would give some insights into the risks communities in Howe Sound could possibly be exposed to, when large LNG carriers will sail back and forth to LNG…
Letter to Woodfibre LNG regarding “Woodfibre LNG’s Pathway to net-zero” plan, published March 2023.
On Thursday February 9, 2023, Concerned Citizens Bowen will join My Sea to sky to ask the Canadian Minister of Environment and Climate Change to protect the seals and sea lions of the Atl’Ka7tsem/Howe Sound Biosphere Reserve. Currently Woodfibre LNG is trying to have protections for seals and sea lions,…
Nexwlelexwem/Bowen Island – July 12, 2022 – Bowen Council reaffirming its position of non-support for the Woodfibre LNG project. The motion was brought forward by Councillors Fast and Nicholson. The motion was a direct result of the presentation on May 24, 2022 After the presentation to Bowen Island, the Woodfibre…
We are in climate emergency and the building of new fossil fuel projects is simply perverse and deeply irresponsible. We must take human civilization from its current trajectory to make life on this planet unlivable. We can do our part by speaking out and coming out firmly against the building…
At this point in time -Summer 2018 – it seems Transport Canada has finally started a TERMPOL review to assess navigational risks of LNG super tankers if they were to navigate through Átl’ḵa7tsem / Howe Sound. Transport Canada offers the voluntary and non-binding TERMPOL review, a technical review of marine…
On LNG coming, Trudeau says today's announcement is about decisions are made by the Feds about development. Says it's not about approving project and then going to locals. #bcpoli #cdnpoli — Richard Zussman (@richardzussman) June 21, 2018 O, is it? Woodfibre LNG was approved 2 years ago, we have no…
Provincial and Federal approvals have been issued for Woodfibre LNG, but we, as Howe Sound communities, have up to this date not received any clarity on the navigational risks LNG super tankers sailing in Howe Sound. We still haven’t seen the Transport Canada’s TERMPOL review into this promised to be…
