The September issue of National Geographic includes a large map of British Columbia it calls "Claiming British Columbia." The map has three themes: First Nations' traditional territory, the routes of proposed pipeline projects, both LNG and diluted bitumen, and it features a sub map that looks at what the map calls the "Troubled Salmon" fishery. […]
The headline on Thursday’s CBC.ca coverage of the sudden controversy over a boycott in British Columbia of Tim Horton's over the Enbridge ads sums up everything that's wrong about media coverage not only of the boycotts, but of northwest energy and environment issues overall. “Tim Hortons yanks Enbridge ads, sparks Alberta backlash.” The anger at […]
There's a dumb, dumb, really dumb idea that just won't go away—that Enbridge could solve all its problems if only, if only, it would send the Northern Gateway Pipeline to Prince Rupert. Enbridge long ago rejected the idea. Before Enbridge updated its website to make Gateway Facts, to make it slick and more attractive, the […]
A New York hedge fund, also known as an aggressive activist investor, which just bought a huge stake in Apache, is urging the company to get out of the Kitimat LNG project. Numerous media reports say that Jana Partners recently bought a one billion dollar stake in the Houston and Calgary based oil and natural […]
Oops. Take a web editor on the Financial Post, plus ad cookies that are aimed just at you and an April's Fool joke and what do you get...a unintentional joke that goes past the noon deadline. I saw a link on Facebook to the Financial Post's wrap up of April Fool jokes April Fool’s Day […]
On March 24, 1989, the tanker Exxon Valdez plowed into Bligh Reef in Alaska's Prince William Sound, spilling 260,000 to 750,000 barrels or 41,000 to 119,000 cubic metres of crude oil. That was 25 years ago. The media loves anniversary stories and the Exxon Valdez look-backs and updates are already ramping up—right in the middle […]
The District of Kitimat Council is in chaos. We're not referring to Monday's chaotic meeting where often it was hard to figure out what Councillors were saying and where they were going. We are referring to “Chaos” as it is defined in physics, “sensitive dependence on initial conditions,” known to most people as the “butterfly […]
Second Update December 10- NEB refuses to release JRP report in BC The Globe and Mail reports Dec. 10, 2013 The National Energy Board says releasing its decisions in Calgary is standard practice regardless of where in Canada the project is located, and it will not make an exception for its report on the controversial $6.5-billion […]
Kitimat LNG is in a “horse race” with an LNG project in Western Australia--and at this point, according to the Australian media--Kitimat is winning, even though the Australian Gorgon project is much further ahead while the Kitimat LNG project at Bish Cove hasn't really started. The Australian reports come from the same conference call Chevron […]
The Dow Jones wire is reporting that Chevron has postponed a final investment decision on the Kitimat LNG project until 2014, "putting a deadline on a project that has already seen delays." Competitors are trying to sell natural gas to Asian customers using the cheaper Henry Hub North American market benchmark rather than higher Japanese […]