{"id":18921,"date":"2016-03-16T13:44:53","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T18:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18921"},"modified":"2016-03-16T13:45:21","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T18:45:21","slug":"18921","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18921","title":{"rendered":"Four More Whoppers about LNG in British Columbia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four More Whoppers about LNG in British Columbia<\/a><\/h3>\n

The real facts behind Christy Clark’s rosy claims.<\/p>\n

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BC Premier Christy Clark: a million-dollar website to drum up LNG jobs, but not a single job yet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The B.C. budget claims the province is making money from shale gas. But last month The Tyee\u00a0showed<\/a>\u00a0the province is pouring more cash into the industry than it is getting back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

In fact the only time the B.C. government made any money from shale gas was during a land lease boom nearly a dozen years ago. Ever since then, revenues have dwindled to next to nothing due to low royalties and taxpayer-funded subsidies to the ailing shale gas industry.<\/p>\n

Dig deeper, and four more claims made by the B.C. government turn out to be liquefied natural gas whoppers as well.<\/p>\n

New information on employment numbers, shale gas reserves, transmission lines and the LNG promise of economic prosperity show that stretching the truth remains a persistent trend in the Christy Clark administration.<\/p>\n

Whopper #1: Vastly less gas to sell than claimed<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let’s begin with the government\u00a0claim<\/a>\u00a0that British Columbia “has more than an estimated 2,900 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of marketable shale gas reserves,” or more methane in the ground than the entire United States.<\/p>\n

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Last year David Hughes, a former analyst with Natural Resources Canada who mapped much of the nation’s coal and gas supplies, took a hard look at real reserves and found that the government claim had no basis in reality.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Hughes pointed out in a\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives that the BC Oil and Gas Commission estimated that B.C. only had 376 tcf of marketable shale resources. (Hughes added 40 tcf to this number for good measure, for a total of 416 tcf, to account for possible resources in developing plays.)<\/p>\n

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Four More Whoppers about LNG in British Columbia The real facts behind Christy Clark’s rosy claims. BC Premier Christy Clark: a million-dollar website to drum up LNG jobs, but not a single job yet. The B.C. budget claims the province is making money from shale gas. But last month The Tyee\u00a0showed\u00a0the province is pouring 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],"tags":[5549,65,94,103,9085,7836,2244,1714,1190,5499],"class_list":["post-18921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-andrew-nikiforuk","tag-bc","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-canadian-centre-for-policy-alternatives","tag-christy-clark","tag-david-hughes","tag-liquified-natural-gas","tag-lng","tag-the-tyee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18921","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=18921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18923,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18921\/revisions\/18923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}