Category: Updates
Climate Cafe Bowen Island on June 4
What are the health harms of LNG? Attend forums.
In-person community forums will be held in Squamish and Vancouver about the health risks associated with LNG production and gas flaring. Flaring is done during start up and maintenance operations of LNG facilities, and is known for its toxic emissions, and large fireballs. Key speakers Dr Tim Takaro, Professor Emeritus…
WFLNG wants to triple production. Public forum May 13 well attended
Public meeting at Collins Hall about Woodfibre LNG wanting to triple
Concerned Citizens Bowen is hosting a meeting with special guest Tracey Saxby from My Sea to Sky. Topics covered: Flaring, Tunnelling wastewater polluting Howe Sound, WFLNG tripling, tanker traffic etc. Bring your questions. Starts at 7 pm.
TERMPOL review of Woodfibre LNG and LNG tankers in Howe Sound: It’s done, and it’s a joke.
We were informed recently – Sept 2025 – that the TERMPOL for Woodfibre LNG was done. Finally in Jan 2025, and took about twelve years(!). It was published June 2025. Of course, now that the project is pretty much a ‘fait accompli’, it is too little and far too late.…
Floods, Fires & Tariffs
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…
BC Elections 2024 LNG report card
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…
Globally three ship accidents in three months
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…
CCBowen review WFLNG pathway to net-zero
Letter to Woodfibre LNG regarding “Woodfibre LNG’s Pathway to net-zero” plan, published March 2023.
This Thursday Feb 9, ask Minister Guilbeault to protect the seals and sea lions in Atl’Ka7tsem/Howe Sound
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,…
