No investors ? what do they want money from taxpayers to invest because banks and companies wont?? maybe pay some attention to the forest industry they are already here and in a mess.

“There are several LNG proposals which have been granted export licenses, however, investors have yet to make the final decision about pumping their money into the proposed projects. “
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In other words, LNG doesn’t necessarily look like as big a winner to investors as Christy and Co. have made out it’s going to be. Such a ‘sure thing’ for BC’s whole economic future is still kind of ‘ify’ in the minds of those with the money. How much more do we have to give them to dispell their lingering doubts?

How many times have we been sold these types of ‘pups with pedigrees’ before, only to find out later we’ve paid a lot for something that’s about as useless as a ‘cut dog’?

If LNG is truly all it’s fracked up to be, then just like anything else, if there’s a genuine consumer demand for it capable of returning all the costs in price, plus at least as good a profit as could be made elsewhere employing a similar amount of capital, it’ll go ahead.

If, on the other hand, most of it is just ‘pie in the sky’ where producers have to be subsidised and kept by the public in some manner to provide a few ‘jobs’, isn’t this essentially the same thing as having everyone just endlessly dig holes and then fill them in again, simply to say they’re all ‘working’?

y’all realize that the pipelines for LNG are under construction as we read this, right? The “investors waiting for final decisions” is just because they are waiting for the government to finalize thier tax / fee structure for LNG. The other approvals are all in place, including environmental and native approvals for the pipelines. Out west there are several companies with buckets in the ground already and we will see them digging by the transfer station at Summit Lake later this summer.
ps – the right of way logged for this out west is HUGE. Its about 4 times the width of a regular gas pipeline. Wide enough to run several – oh wait… ;)

But, the question is, who is paying for all this right of way? The people who have the jobs building it are just working for wages, they don’t have any control over whether or not LNG is going to be the “big hit” cristy and co. think it is. If, we, the taxpayers are not paying for the construction of the pipeline, then, other than a big swathe of forest gone, we aren’t out anything, on the other hand, if we are subsidizing the investors by essentially building the right of way, then it could all come back to be a huge bill for the taxpayers.

There are already pipeline workers in the Bear Lake area. Not sure what pipeline they are working for, but they have about 2-dozen workers doing mapping and geo-technical work in the area. I suspect these are Enbridge contractors, but its anyone’s guess… I’m sure they won’t say as the Enbridge line has yet to be approved.

awesome, corporate welfare now available for foreign owned corporate entities.

This Liberal Government is just a one trick pony; LNG, LNG, LNG.

The pipeline company will clear the right of way. Taxpayers are not responsible. Love the immediate call to arms by the usual suspects on an issue they know very little about beside the fact its a pipeline. Alberta, Saskatchewan and North East BC are covered with pipelines and most understand the basics of how they work and operate in those ares. Not so much on 250.

Yeah, we know what you mean dow, British Columbia needs to be just like Alberta:

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014/01/13/alberta_the_leader_in_disturbing_canadas_landscape_says_study.html

Forget about it dow. Some don’t want to be woken from the technicolor fantasies they live in.