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Comox Valley Echo

Halibut decision tramples rights

>Larry Peterson
I am absolutely stinking mad.
DFO is going to close down recreational halibut fishing as of Sept. 5? This action is an attack on my rights as a taxpaying, law-abiding Canadian citizen.

Victoria Times Colonist

Halibut season end hurts communities

By Lanny Sawchuk, Oak Bay Marine Group

Last week’s announcement of a shutdown of recreational halibut fishing is terrible news for coastal communities.
Our company operates businesses on the coast, including sports fishing resorts and marinas. Several will be severely impacted by this closure. Our employees will soon be dealing with guests unable to fulfil their plans to fish halibut, guests who in many cases travelled from great distances, at great expense, to have that experience. We’re also dealing with cancellations. We’ll be cutting back staffing accordingly, resulting in a ripple effect of lost economic activity for communities.

Oil and gas spills in North Sea every week, papers reveal: Guardian

The Guardian


Serious spills of oil and gas from North Sea platforms are occurring at the rate of one a week, undermining oil companies’ claims to be doing everything possible to improve the safety of rigs.

Jake Molloy, general secretary of the Offshore Industry Liaison Committee (OILC), a union representing North Sea workers, said Deepwater Horizon showed that “even the most up-to-date, cutting-edge safety technology can go wrong if it is not maintained properly and not operated by competent people….

Other major oil companies which are high in the spills league include the Danish conglomerate Maersk and Canadian firm Talisman, which both have a rig with five leaks. Four spills came from a rig known as Mungo Etap, which is owned by BP.

Kitimat LNG Project Granted Extension: 250 News

250 News


Kitimat LNG Project Granted Extension

The proponents of the liquefied natural gas terminal to be built near Kitimat now have more time to start up construction.
  

The Environmental Assessment Office has granted an extension to the Kitimat LNG Operating General Partnership’s environmental assessment certificate. Under the original certificate, substantial construction had to be underway on the LNG terminal by June 1st of this year.

The Kitimat LNG Operating Partnership must now have substantial construction started on the project prior to June 1ST of 2016.

‘Native land claims scare the hell out of investors’: energy expert : The Hook

The Hook (Tyhee blog)

‘Native land claims scare the hell out of investors’: energy expert

Fierce First Nations opposition could very well topple Enbridge’s west coast pipeline proposal, a Washington-based energy expert argues.

“Native land claims scare the hell out of investors,” Robert Johnson told an Alberta energy conference, according to an Edmonton Journal report. “My level of confidence [in the project] has gone down quite a bit, unfortunately.”

Johnson belongs to senior management at Eurasia Group, which claims to be the “world’s leading global political risk research and consulting firm.”

PNG hands out more cash to shareholders, execs: Northern Sentinel

Northern Sentinel

PNG hands out more cash to shareholders, execs

Pacific Northern Gas (PNG) shareholders are to receive another cash benefit resulting from the sale earlier this year of its 50 per cent interest in a planned natural gas pipeline to feed the Kitimat LNG export terminal project.

Shareholders of record as of June 6 are to receive $3 a share, amounting to $11 million, part of the net remaining proceeds of an initial $30 million payment made to PNG by Apache Canada and EOG Resources.

Apache Executive: Kitimat LNG Export Terminal Project Under Way: Dow Jones

From Dow Jones via Automated Trader

Apache Executive: Kitimat LNG Export Terminal Project Under Way

The head of Apache Corp.’s (APA) Canadian business said Tuesday that work has begun on the company’s planned Kitimat liquefied natural gas export facility and that the first super-chilled natural gas could be shipped from there by late 2015.

Timothy Wall, Apache’s regional vice president for Canada, said during the Houston company’s annual investor meeting that he expects the project will receive gas export permits “by the end of the year.”

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