alt Hacker NewsRight, I meant to call out BC as a relatively positive example but didn't. I agree they're doing the right moves for now.
(I'm from Alberta originally, and fled during the Klein years. I have many ... sensitive ... spots about that place)
That said... electricity generation aside... Massive LNG terminals on the BC coast aren't exactly a positive for the planet. In fact the approval of the first by the Trudeau gov't basically blew Canada's possibility of ever meeting its international climate commitments just on its own.
Natural gas sucks.
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8note • today at 4:32 PM
the leaks can be improved, but I'd rather have europe and east asia burn Canadian fossil fuels than middle east and Russian ones
Yeah, I agree. We have a large and persuasive LNG industry influencing government policy.
Not a lot of critical discussion is permitted because of the sheer money at stake. So many resource corporations, their employees, towns, and a heavily lobbied government don't want to sit and have a rational discussion about, oh, say, "How and when will we ween ourselves off LNG because we should?" :-|