1937 replies to this topic

[Mike K.]

Langford has historically had private services and they kept their taxes low by comparison. The new council has been on a massive spending spree, though. That won’t help.

I have private garbage services at my house, my mum has CoV forced garbage services.

My service is 1/2 the cost, with 2x the pick-ups.

[Victoria Watcher]

Carney and Poilievre have both pledged 'energy corridors.' That could be complicated

 

Questions loom around regulatory requirements, buy-in from Indigenous groups

 

https://www.cbc.ca/n...ridor-1.7508253

[Barrister]

We dont have ten years to haggle about getting pipelines started. Time to declare a national emergency, cut a corridor without consultations and actually start building like our economy depends on it.

[Victoria Watcher]

We dont have ten years to haggle about getting pipelines started. Time to declare a national emergency, cut a corridor without consultations and actually start building like our economy depends on it.

 

That'll be taken to court and likely blocked.

[dasmo]

Rule number one. Don’t panic.

[Barrister]

Evoke, the not withstanding rule and withdraw al right of court challenges. This needs to be treat like the national emergency that it actually is at this point.

[Victoria Watcher]

CNN:



News Alert: 406 injured in huge explosion at Iranian oil port

A huge explosion has occurred in the port city of Bandar Abbas in southwestern Iran, injuring 406 people, an emergency services spokesperson has said.

Images and video from the port, one of Iran’s main oil facilities, show a towering column of thick, gray smoke rising from the Shahid Rajaee part of the complex.

Citing emergency services, Iranian state media outlet Tasnim reported that the blast scattered glass and debris over a wide area. There has been no confirmation of any fatalities.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 26 April 2025 - 03:38 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

That suggests some companies are unwilling to pay higher tolls, charged due to the project's costs ballooning higher than expected.

The federal government initially purchased the Trans Mountain pipeline for $4.5 billion, but development and construction increased to $34 billion.


https://www.cbc.ca/n...-full-1.7525284

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 03 May 2025 - 10:23 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

B.C. company wants to open $300M made-in-Canada sand mine to fuel anticipated fracking, LNG boom

Proposal comes as province focuses on new developments, igniting worry among climate groups


https://www.cbc.ca/n...-mine-1.7525611

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 04 May 2025 - 12:47 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

B.C. won’t fast-track projects without First Nations’ ownership, Premier says

 

 

https://www.theglobe..._medium=twitter

 

 

The British Columbia government is moving forward with controversial legislation to allow it to fast-track major projects deemed to be of provincial significance, but Premier David Eby says none will be built without First Nations’ consent – and financial benefits.

 

The only way forward with major projects in the province is through Indigenous partnership, he said in an interview. Federally designated projects that would cross into B.C. should expect to meet the same standard, he added. “For us, it’s about actual ownership by the Nation whose territory the projects are going on.”

 

Mr. Eby’s New Democratic Party government wants to pass Bill 15, the Infrastructure Projects Act, by the end of May. The proposed legislation would grant sweeping powers to cabinet to designate priority projects that would jump the queue for regulatory review for approvals. It also aims to expedite infrastructure projects such as schools and hospitals.

 

The Eby government has identified clean energy and critical mineral mines as top priorities but has offered little encouragement to its Alberta neighbour for new fossil fuel projects.

 

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is demanding that Ottawa clear a path for new oil and gas pipelines, and end a ban on oil tankers off B.C.’s north coast. But Mr. Eby told CBC Radio’s The Early Edition on Friday, that’s not in the scope of Bill 15. “We’ve been really clear we won’t use this for pipelines, for LNG projects.”

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 12 May 2025 - 01:05 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

B.C., federal government support dredging Vancouver’s Burrard Inlet, others opposed

 

 

 

British Columbia’s energy minister is backing plans to dredge and deepen Vancouver’s Burrard Inlet to accommodate fully loaded oil tankers, despite concerns from environmentalists, experts and First Nations.

 

The plan, floated recently by Prime Minister Mark Carney, could result in fewer tankers carrying more oil from the Trans Mountain pipeline to markets abroad.

 

The expanded TMX pipeline has been operating since May 2024 and there have been calls to expand it again to help diversify energy exports away from the United States.

 

“We certainly have said we are supportive, given that it would meet the environmental requirements and consultation requirements (with First Nations) that you have,” Energy Minister Adrian Dix said in a recent interview.

 

Dix added that it would be a federal project that “would allow for less traffic at the port and better utilization” because ships could fully load.

 

“To do that (now), to fully load up would risk you hitting the bottom,” he said. “You don’t want to do that.”

 

 

https://www.ctvnews...._source=twitter

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 12 May 2025 - 01:16 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Guilbeault throws cold water on new pipeline, says we have enough already

 

 

Carney said in an interview on Tuesday that he's willing to green light a new oil and gas pipeline if an interprovincial consensus exists

 

https://nationalpost...-on-fall-update

[Victoria Watcher]

Councils, First Nations push back on bill that gives province sweeping powers

 

Bill 15 allows the provincial cabinet sweeping powers to pass major public projects like schools, hospitals, student housing and any other projects deemed “provincially significant,” including critical mineral mines.

https://www.timescol...powers-10669485

[Victoria Watcher]

Democracy and climate activists staged sit-ins Friday morning at the B.C. Ministry of Energy and Climate Solutions in Victoria and Premier David Eby’s Vancouver office, calling on the provincial government to reject the U.S.-backed Prince Rupert Gas Transmission Pipeline.

Savannah Barret, the Vancouver Island organizer for Dogwood B.C., was present at the sit-in at the ministry office on Blanshard Street, where she said the project was first approved in 2014 when environmental assessments were different from what they are today.

"We're echoing the calls from Indigenous sovereign nations that want a modern environmental assessment for this project, and that it should not proceed without that," she said.

The proposed pipeline would run from Hudson’s Hope to the proposed Pacific NorthWest LNG natural gas liquefaction and export facility near Prince Rupert. The pipeline would consist of both land-based and marine sections. Depending on the final route, it could include up to 780 kilometres of land-based pipeline and up to 120 kilometres of twin marine pipelines, according to the B.C. Government.



https://www.vicnews....pipline-8014837

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 17 May 2025 - 03:54 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

The Shell-led LNG Canada export project is on track to load its first export cargo within a few weeks, a long-awaited milestone that will establish the country as a major supplier of natural gas to global markets.

 

“We're still on track, of course, with the first cargo intended in middle of this year,” Shell CFO Sinead Gorman said earlier this month during the company’s first-quarter earnings call. Recent media and analyst reports estimate that the first shipment could take place by late June.

 

The anticipated start-up of the 14 million ton per year (2 billion cubic foot per day) project at Kitimat, British Columbia, coincides with a push within Canada to diversify energy shipments to markets outside the US in the wake of President Donald Trump’s trade war. Canada's fossil fuel industry is heavily dependent on the US market, which accounts for half of the country's 19.8 Bcf/d of gas output and 70% of its 4 million barrels per day of oil production.

 

 

https://www.energyin...d7-f7edfa750000

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 18 May 2025 - 07:23 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Tyee:  

 

Busting the Myth That Ottawa Has Hurt Alberta’s Oil Industry

 

In fact, federal governments have promoted and protected it. Especially the oilsands.

 

 

https://thetyee.ca/A...campaign=190525

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 19 May 2025 - 08:38 AM.

[Mike K.]

Steven Guilbeault may no longer be federal environment minister, but Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she still sees him as a threat to the province’s oil and gas industry.

Smith said on her weekly radio show this weekend that Guilbeault, now heritage minister, has an “overt motive” to establish new federally protected parks in the path of pipelines and other energy infrastructure.

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This puts him in charge of implementing the Liberals’ campaign promise to create at least 10 new national parks. The Liberal government has also said it will protect 30 per cent of public lands by 2030.

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According to Parks Canada’s website, the agency is currently vetting four proposed national parks and protected areas, including a northern Manitoba watershed on Hudson Bay, one possible destination for future oil shipments.

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Neither Guilbeault’s office nor Parks Canada gave an immediate response to Smith’s comments about future federal parks blocking energy infrastructure.

- https://nationalpost...-national-parks

[dasmo]

They aren’t public lands in the true sense of those words. They are Crown lands. Or better said, government lands. The LAND ACT in B.C. grants us limited access but no rights. We have no decision making powers over those lands nor do we get dividends from there business use. They are also slowly being transferred into joint ownership with the FN.

Also, a pipeline can go through a park. They can just make it so. 🤷🏽