I am surprised that even for a brief moment I thought things would change under the new government.

Written by Eoin Finn, B.Sc., Ph.D., MBA … Only if you had been banished from BC would you have missed the claim by the BC Government, repeated over and over in the past three years, that Liquefied Natural Gas is “the cleanest fossil fuel on the planet”.

The Council of Canadians says the Trudeau government's interim regulations for pipeline review processes are a good first step, but that there are questions and fundamental issues that still need to be addressed.

Is this the kind of corporate neighbor we want to have? Would you attend a discount jewelry party in your neighborhood? Everything at 25% original value or less? There are such parties and I would advise you to stay as far away as possible - you don't have to be a brain surgeon to understand why.

Op-ed by Eoin Finn, January, 2016 … “100,000 jobs, BCers first in line for those jobs, a debt-free BC, a $100 billion heritage fund and a trillion dollar boost to the provincial economy”. Promises the BC Liberals made for the LNG industry in the 2013 provincial election campaign.

For the past 3 months, the group called Concerned Citizens Bowen has been researching Herring spawn in Howe Sound to better understand the possible effects to it from the Woodfibre LNG’s proposed cooling system.

SOLAR IN THE TAR SANDS … Indigenous community launches solar powered health centre … One of Alberta’s biggest solar projects has been built in one of the most unlikely places—the heart of Canada’s Peace River oil sands.

“I am passionate about Howe Sound, this place I call home.

The evidence is mounting that natural gas has no net climate benefit in any timescale that matters to humanity. In the real world, natural gas is not a “bridge” fuel to a carbon-free economy for two key reasons.

Premier Clark’s Climate Leadership Team has urged her to adopt the 32 recommendations they presented, to ensure BC can be a climate change leader. Clark says she won’t commit to them.