LNG Focus of One Day Symposium
Prince George, B.C.- Liquefied Natural Gas, LNG, is being touted as the economic driver for B.C.’s future.
With trillions of cubic meters of natural gas available, the liquefaction and shipping of natural gas to offshore markets is expected to keep the north booming for decades to come.
LNG is the focus of a special symposium at the University of Northern B.C.
The Northern Economics Student Society has put together a day of talks about different aspects of LNG. Society President, Adam Vickers says the first segment will focus on why LNG is so important to B.C. “The second part is going to talk about the social license to produce LNG, whether it’s a viable option( for the economy) or is it a hail Mary pass?”
Vickers says the Students Society has been getting a lot of interest in the symposium., but he’s not surprised by that. “Right now, LNG is a pretty hot topic, but we are interested in finding out what all the issues are and what exactly we’re talking about here. It will be interesting to see what kind of questions people have on the subject.”
In the afternoon, there will be a round table discussion on what BC should do with its natural gas. The panel taking part in that discussion includes an economist from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and a representative from the Carrier Sekani Tribal Council. First Nations have been pressing the provincial and federal governments to look at the cumulative impacts of the development of several LNG facilities.
There are three LNG export licenses that have been approved, and four more applications to export LNG have been filed.
The Friday symposium is set to start at 11 and run through to 4 in room 6-205/211 in the Conference Centre at UNBC.
Comments
get off your butt, and git’r dun.
Alaska is willing to pull the gas of the North Shore. Australia has been working on it for three years, and the lower states just needs ships.
Build, build, build. Enough posturing, pull out the whiskey on to the table, talk like men, and make money.
Good post He Spoke. We are good in BC at meetings, symposiums, conferences, and foot dragging. Meanwhile, the world passes us by.
It is a good idea to let the world pass us by with respect to LNG. It is a finite resource, that means there is an end to it. Someday it will run out and we will be cold. Lets push that day as far into the future as we can. Maybe by then some of our forests will have grown back or we will have built enough wind or tidal power to take the chill off winter.
…and an ‘economist’ from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Well la di dah. This left wing think tank would rather we live in tents. If they truly wanted an open and honest symposium they would also have someone from Trans Canada, Chevron or Apache there. A bit of reality wouldn’t hurt these school kids.
“whether it’s a viable option (for the economy) or is it a hail Mary pass?”
Uh oh, we better get Doug Flutie back in BC.
So Steve what do you do when the wind don’t blow and the tide is in ebb?
You are okay the bird deaths?
@Steve Cooley: Hoarding our resources is not the answer. Maybe wind and solar will be the primary source of energy, but that day isn’t today.
For those of us living in the present, the money to fund all of the entitlements everyone takes for granted has to come from somewhere… and it sure isn’t wind, tidal, or solar. Canada’s economic engine depends on resource development and extraction (and the thousands of people working in those industries) and that isn’t going to change soon.
To those going to the symposium, enjoy it.
“LNG, is being touted as the economic driver for B.C.âs future” .. ya, this from the gov’t that has never lied to anyone in order to get elected. Sort of like the gazillion ads saying there are going to be 1,000,000 jobs created in BC by 2020. Who is projecting that and where are the stats that support that? We supposedly don’t have enough skilled labour to fill the needs we have now, so where are these 1,000,000 workers going to come from? And what kind of jobs are these 1,000,000 jobs? That’s a lot of A&W burger flipping. Why is trades funding being cut back and business not held accountable to train these 1,000,000 workers who are currently unskilled? I mean it is in the companies best interest to train people who will be skilled enough to work for them. Or are companies going to be able to take the easy way out and outsource as much as possible or hire foreign labour instead of training our own? Too many questions and not any answer to these blanket statements.
Huh: “LNG, is being touted as the economic driver for B.C.âs future” .. ya, this from the gov’t that has never lied to anyone in order to get elected.”
I know having a vision is sometimes a scary thing and like anything, there are no guarantees, but people want to know where the economy of the province is going. If you have any answers besides a shoulder shrug, I’d like to hear it.
Huh: “Sort of like the gazillion ads saying there are going to be 1,000,000 jobs created in BC by 2020. Who is projecting that and where are the stats that support that?”
Knock yourself out…
http://www.workbc.ca/WorkBC/files/5f/5fc26f16-3c0f-4884-ab99-b475ca7448b7.pdf
You do realize these reports are brought to you by the same people who said “NO HST” before an election and “NO WE WILL NOT SELL BC RAIL” before an election, right? So you can see why I am a little bit skeptical of their projections. Oh, by the way, what is this “vision” you talk about? Is that the “resource extraction” vision BC has had since confederation? Doesn’t sound like much of a vision to me. Sounds like just more of the political posturing we are used to hearing. A vision is something new and innovative, not old parlour tricks.
“Canada’s economic engine depends on resource development and extraction (and the thousands of people working in those industries) and that isn’t going to change soon”
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I boldly predict that it will never change if we continue to do what we have always done ;)
@Huh, so I presented you with the information you were looking for and you just simply say you don’t believe it. If you want to go though life with a closed mind, I’m afraid I can’t help you. You’re not the only one, unfortunately.
As for resource extraction, it’s been going on since before we were all born and will continue. The country was largely built on it. Some may not like to hear that inconvenient truth, but again, I can’t help with that.
As usual you put blinders on when reading peoples posts that you disagree with and interpret it as you want. I guess you missed the part about losing faith in this gov’t word? That isn’t a closed mind, that is simply looking at the source, at their track record and reacting accordingly.
Exactly. You looked at the source and decided to dismiss it based on your own preconceived notions.
As far as their track record goes, no government is perfect, but I’m much happier with the Liberals than if the NDP were at the helm. I was here in the 90’s and I never want to go back to that.
JohnnyBelt,. What a line up crap., I was here in the 90’s and so were 4 Million other people,. The problem with the economy etc; was world wide, and had nothing (or very little) to do with the NDP. If anything it was propaganda.
Sayings such as **The last person to leave BC please turn out the lights** etc; etc;
Problem is more people came to BC during this period of time that actually left, so that in itself shows that you are selling a line of Horse s..t.
Huh is correct when he looks at the source of the LNG fiasco. Seems the **vision** came to Christy just before the election. How lucky for her.
The tragedy is the number of people who actually believe the garbage that the Liberals spew.
Keep in mind that I am (not) an NDP supporter, however I also do not support people who cannot be at least somewhat honest with the populace.
We all know how about your preconceived notions about LNG, Palopu. This is well documented.
It seems like you and Huh are looking for some sort of guarantee, or level of perfection that doesn’t exist. At least nothing that can top your already biased views. Good luck in your search.
Palopu: “Keep in mind that I am (not) an NDP supporter, however I also do not support people who cannot be at least somewhat honest with the populace.”
So who do you support? Do you even vote? Seems all you can do is criticise and call everything horse s..t. Pretty convenient when you can just do that and not do much else.
LNG will help us, it will not save us, it will not clear our debt. We need fiscal responsibility, something this and every other party doesn’t get. Sustainable development( I know the right-tards hate those words,), fiscal responsibility (I know the lef-tards hate those words) and supporting small business and the middle class might get us out of this sh@t storm, but I doubt it. Monopoly Capitalism is alive and well in the halls of Ottawa and around the world. I’m not going to deny it, and I’m exploiting it very well, thank you. But I’m not going to lick their boots and ask,” can I have some more, sir?”
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