[quote=“BTravenn”]If we can move past the word games, the BC Liberal caucus has responded with a media release entitled “Horgan Says No to Prince Rupert”. Here is a partial quote:
"NDP leader John Horgan dropped into Prince Rupert, donned a hard hat for a photo op – and an hour after leaving town, he said the community had no future.
“John Horgan talks a good game, claiming he supports LNG and then he takes every opportunity to dismiss and disparage the industry,” says Nechako Lakes MLA John Rustad, who is also the minister of Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation. “If you want to support economic growth, if you want to see more people working in the northwest, you don’t do it by rejecting the projects that are planned.
“That’s not leadership. That’s changing your tune depending where you are.”
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These are the quotes that the Liberals are using as evidence that Horgan is against LNG and Prince Rupert.
Well, maybe done is not the right word, but didn’t they delay making any decision until after 2016, that they had projects going on in the US.
[quote]Horgan also focussed on the Pacific NorthWest LNG project, which has as its majority owner the Malaysian-stated owned Petronas company and which is slated for a location on Lelu Island within the District of Port Edward’s jurisdiction.
The location has just come under criticism from a number of aboriginal groups and some residents for potential impacts on the Skeena River’s salmon populations.
The project is under a provincial environmental review and Petronas recently received a 45-day extension of that review to conduct more work.
“The Skeena River’s got some salmon in it,” said Horgan of the importance of the river to the region.
He did note that the review will shed more light on the impacts of the planned project on the Skeena River estuary and its salmon-hosting role.
In some ways, Horgan said the prospects of LNG development in Kitimat are more favourable than around Prince Rupert.
One LNG project at Kitimat, called Kitimat LNG, has a substantial buy-in from aboriginal groups.
That includes the Haisla at Kitamaat Village on whose lands the plant will be built and from virtually all of the First Nations who have territory over which a natural gas pipeline would run to supply the facility.[/quote]
Here he seems to be comparing the feasibility of Kitimat’s projects against Prince Rupert’s. He is not saying that Rupert is a no; he is just pointing out that Rupert doesn’t have the same kind of support that Kitimat does.
[quote]LNG is all hype and no substance:
“What’s the structure to create this unlimited resource [of LNG] that you talk about? No answer… So we have lots of hype and not a lot of substance.” – John Horgan, Straight.com, June 11, 2014[/quote]
And so far, has there been more hype or substance?
[quote]Never be LNG revenues:
“There’s no evidence that that revenue will ever come on-stream. Prices in Asia are going to be coming down, because they’ve got competition now for gas. They’ve got Australia; they’ve got Qatar. They’ve now got British Columbia and the United States. So as the market starts to figure this out, the return to BC is going to get smaller and smaller — and as those margins shrink, it could get to the point where we’re giving more than we’re getting back. That’s a significant concern for me.” – John Horgan, SHAW, May 8, 2014[/quote]
Are prices going down? Will we ever see the trillions and trillions of dollars and a debt free province with a legacy fund from LNG?
[quote]Scientific review of fracking and moratorium:
“[NDP scientific review of fracking could lead to a moratorium] if the evidence shows it is harmful.” – John Horgan, Vancouver Sun, May 6, 2014[/quote]
And should we frack if the evidence says its harmful?
Regardless, it is up to the Liberals to make all of these projects happen. I am far more interested with what the Liberals have to say and do. The NDP does not have control of anything. They can spout and sputter all the want. The only way the NDP can win the next election is if the Liberals LNG plans fail miserably, and no matter what Horgan says, it won’t be his fault if they do.