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Wall Street behemoth Blackstone made headlines in Canada this week – but not for its LNG plans in B.C.The trillion-dollar private equity firm is trying to buy Canadian wireless communications infrastructure, starting with a 49.9% stake in Rogers. As the Globe and Mail pointed out, Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman is a longtime advisor to Donald Trump, and one of his top 10 donors.
Last Friday, B.C. energy minister Adrian Dix sent a letter to Western LNG, a Texas-based shell company funded by some of Donald Trump’s closest allies on Wall Street. The letter offered a new loophole for the company’s proposed Ksi Lisims LNG project in Ts’msyen territory, on the border between B.C. and Alaska.
Fossil fuels have had their time. Oil and gas has made a lot of crappy people rich. And burning the stuff is killing the planet, and your friends, neighbours and family members along with it.
More than any other province in Canada, British Columbia has the potential to ride out the coming trade war and transition to a cleaner, healthier post-Trump world.
While big tech companies like TikTok and Meta control our news and information, Wall Street firms are buying pipelines and gas terminals in B.C. to speed up the flow of fossil fuel.
This week, lawyers for the U.S.-backed Prince Rupert Gas Transmission pipeline are fighting hard in a Vancouver courtroom to keep the project moving forward. The Kispiox Band of the Gitxsan Nation, alongside local community groups, is challenging the bizarre process used by the BC Energy Regulator to fast-track construction last year.
Fossil gas prices (branded as “natural” gas by the industry) will rise 113 per cent this year, according to a forecast in B.C.’s provincial budget released this week.
Fossil fuels have had their time. Oil and gas has made a lot of crappy people rich. And burning the stuff is killing the planet, and your friends, neighbours and family members along with it.
Buy Canadian! That’s what many of our friends and family members are doing right now. It’s also what the governments of Canada and B.C. are pushing.
Premier David Eby responded to Donald Trump’s tariff threats this week by fast-tracking 10 resource projects, including mines, fracked gas pipelines and LNG infrastructure.
More than any other province in Canada, British Columbia has the potential to ride out the coming trade war and transition to a cleaner, healthier post-Trump world.
While big tech companies like TikTok and Meta control our news and information, Wall Street firms are buying pipelines and gas terminals in B.C. to speed up the flow of fossil fuel.
NDP politicians say Trump is out to lunch on climate change. But they’re in lockstep with the next president’s plan to expand fracking and fossil fuel exports.
Private utility FortisBC is jacking up gas bills, even though its parent company raked in $420 million in profits last quarter. No, it has nothing to do with the carbon tax.
From all of us to you, thank you for all you’ve done in 2024. Next year is coming fast. And there’s a lot in store — some of it good, some of it terrifying.
This week, B.C. premier David Eby joined Energy Minister Adrian Dix to announce that nine new wind power projects, co-owned by First Nations, have been approved.