{"id":15533,"date":"2015-12-21T13:35:43","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T18:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15533"},"modified":"2015-12-21T13:35:43","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T18:35:43","slug":"three-fibs-premier-clark-uses-to-sell-lng-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=15533","title":{"rendered":"Three Fibs Premier Clark Uses to Sell LNG Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three Fibs Premier Clark Uses to Sell LNG Dream<\/a><\/h3>\n

Sorry, it’s not clean. It won’t pay off. It’s not popular. Here’s why.<\/p>\n

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Why does Premier Clark keep saying LNG will bring a bonanza of jobs and revenues? Photo: Province of BC\u00a0Flickr<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The more Christy Clark defends her dream of an LNG industry, the more she turns cold gas into hot air. The B.C. premier’s\u00a0interview<\/a>\u00a0with Andrew MacLeod published last week in The Tyee is a case in point. As MacLeod pressed with many LNG-related questions, Clark resorted to three big, bloated fibs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Fib #1: LNG is ‘clean’<\/strong><\/p>\n

While making our documentary\u00a0Fractured Land<\/em><\/a>\u00a0about fracking in B.C., co-director Fiona Rayher and I journeyed to Cornell University to\u00a0interview<\/a>\u00a0Dr. Robert Howarth. He is a global expert on the climate impacts of fracking.<\/p>\n

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CLARK’S SITE C INCONSISTENCIES<\/p>\n

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On the massive, taxpayer-funded Site C dam project, our premier remains where she’s always been: all over the map.<\/p>\n

First, she told us the power was\u00a0needed<\/a>\u00a0for the enormously energy-intensive LNG industry.<\/p>\n

Then she creatively\u00a0interpreted<\/a>the Clean Energy Act to mean that LNG plants could power themselves by burning some of their own gas, saving them money. That would produce three times the greenhouse gas emissions as would electric power. It also means her previous justification for Site C is gone.<\/p>\n

Even BC Hydro recently\u00a0admitted<\/a>to the BC Utilities Commission that without powering LNG, we wouldn’t need the electricity from Site C until at least 2029.<\/p>\n

This dam is therefore an unnecessary taxpayer-funded boondoggle of at least $9 billion that would\u00a0flood or disrupt<\/a>30,000 acres of some of the best farmland left in Canada, while violating First Nations’ treaty rights. —\u00a0D.G.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

We told him our premier has affixed the label “Cleanest Fossil Fuel on the Planet” to B.C. LNG (derived almost entirely from a massive increase in fracking in the province’s northeast).<\/p>\n

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Three Fibs Premier Clark Uses to Sell LNG Dream Sorry, it’s not clean. It won’t pay off. It’s not popular. Here’s why. \u00a0 Why does Premier Clark keep saying LNG will bring a bonanza of jobs and revenues? Photo: Province of BC\u00a0Flickr. The more Christy Clark defends her dream of an LNG industry, the more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[65,94,103,7836,2864,1714,1190,3977,1426,5499],"class_list":["post-15533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-liberty","tag-bc","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-christy-clark","tag-lies","tag-liquified-natural-gas","tag-lng","tag-lying","tag-misinformation","tag-the-tyee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15534,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15533\/revisions\/15534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}