Ben Parfitt and I submitted the following letter to the Vancouver Sun yesterday. Hopefully it will run in the next couple days. Here it is: Letter to the editor Re. “Maintaining momentum in oil and gas,” May 7. The oil and gas industry should stop its political mischief-making, and obfuscating the numbers about the industry’s [...]
Entries Tagged as 'flaring'
Mischief making by oil and gas industry
May 8th, 2009 · Seth Klein · 1 Comment · Energy, Environment, resources & sustainability
Tags: BC Oil and Gas Commission·David Collyer·flaring·greenhouse gas·oil and gas
What are we going to do with the oil and gas industry?
May 7th, 2009 · Marc Lee · Comments Off · Economy, Environment, resources & sustainability
That is the question no one seems willing to entertain in this election campaign. In today’s Vancouver Sun, David Collyer of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers makes the case for expanding the industry based on some dubious facts. First there is this gem: The industry has invested almost $30 billion dollars in British Columbia [...]
Tags: BC Oil and Gas Commission·David Collyer·employment·flaring·greenhouse gas·oil and gas·Petroleum Producers
The NDP Platform and BC's Economic Challenges
April 20th, 2009 · Marc Lee · Comments Off · Climate change, Economy, Provincial budget & finance
Below is an oped of mine that was done at the request of the Vancouver Sun and that ran in today’s paper. Unfortunately, for reasons that are not entirely clear, the last two paragraphs were cut off, leaving the oped hanging. I put them back in below, and have requested that the online version be [...]
Tags: budget·cap-and-trade·carbon tax·deficit·flaring·green infrastructure·greenhouse gas·NDP·oil and gas·platform·recession·tax cuts·unemployment
How green are BC’s climate policies?
April 16th, 2009 · Marc Lee · 2 Comments · Employment & labour, Energy, Environment, resources & sustainability
One of the most striking contradictions in BC’s climate action plan is the oil and gas industry. Greg Amos in The Hook, quotes our “green” premier out on the campaign trail in the northeast: “Let me tell you what’s happened in the energy industry in British Columbia in the last eight years: thirteen billion dollars [...]
