Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!!!

Love it :)

Fantastic news!!

Good thing this motion is non-binding and will likely be ignored. When will you hippies learn that we live in a resource based economy. BC and especially PG needs the Embridge pipe line to help boost our economy. The pine beetle has almost destroyed the forestry industry and now we need some of our other resources to pick up the slack (oil+gas)

I agree with the oil but not banning LNG

This has nothing to do with Natural gas Mike. Natural gas spills don't do the Exxon Valdez.

When will Skinheads like Apache learn that Hippies are long gone and have been replaced by much larger segment of the population that can think for themselves and don't take kindly to crap being put in spind cycles too often.

We will get virtually nothing from the pipeline no matter how many times it will spill or will not spill.

It is the production end I am much more worried about. But if it takes the switch from land to ocean that is the easy way to stop it in part, so be it.

We need industry such as the southern part of the province has in order to sustain ourselves.

Natural Resources is going more and more the way of farming. It will keep on producing more and more efficiently - read less people and more expensive and improved machinery per unit produced.

The money is shifting to the design and building of the machinery as well as its maintenance.

I do not know what it takes for people to understand that.

Will the Northern Gateway Alliance have to pay back the Chinese Refineries the 100 million it got from them? Will Kinsley have to repay his salary? Inquiring minds want to know.

The motion is not the requested legislation. It calls for legislation.

Early interpretation from a right of centre press.

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/Opposition+push+through+motion+tanker+traffic/3942212/story.html

Before the vote on the motion, Transport Minister Chuck Strahl said the voluntary “exclusion zone” is closely monitored and strictly enforced.

“Oil tanker traffic cannot come within 25 to 80 miles off the West Coast depending on where it is,” Strahl told the Commons. “That exclusion zone is in place. It is going to stay in place. We are not going to change it.”

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The motion passed on the same day that Parliament’s environmental watchdog declared that Canada isn’t ready to respond to a major oil spill emanating from a tanker or other vessel.

Scott Vaughan, commissioner of the environment and sustainable development, said he was “troubled” by the government’s lack of readiness, given that at least one oil spill is reported to the Canadian Coast Guard every day.

Mr. Cullen said the government needs to clear up the grey area in its policy on tanker traffic along the West Coast.

“They need to clarify what the actual policy is in Canada. In light of the commissioner’s report today, this is the only thing that will give Canadians assurance that our coastal waters are
safe,” he said.

Hippies, tree huggers and whatever else, every single one of them.

And those who are for it? Been wined and dined a bit too much. ;-)

Kinsley never made any promises to deliver. And it ain't over till the fat lady sings.

oh look, the federal NDP are already starting to show the world that BC will be closed for business soon. I cannot wait until they get in provincially and can turn us in to a "have not" province again. We can all sit and hold hands and sing Kumbaya while the federal equalization dollars roll in...

yippeee, who needs jobs anyway. We can all live on wellfare.

Good. And while we are at it, let's get the government to provide some R&D money for Canadian companies to develop better ways of dealing with oil spills and other environmental disasters when they do occur. That way, we can create new highly paid jobs in Canada and perhaps even develop an industry specializing in that area that can service the world. It's a win win. We can make money off of big industry when they need us and we can also keep our shorelines clean by not having to put up with their crap when they screw up, which they eventually will.

Let the folks in places like Louisiana stick up for big oil and the jobs they provide. I'm sure they would all be in support of expanded drilling, big ole tankers, etc. Oh wait a minute . . .

We don't want prosperity up here.
Kill all developments that would bring money to the north.
we hate money, who needs it!

Leave it all up to first nations and we'll be back into the stone age in no time and live happy ever after!

Government makes big $ form petrolium products. I suggest that they pay for oil spill prevention and cleanup meterials and equipment. The Government can then recover it's cost of a clean up from whomever caused it to happen. It's time Canada becomes oil spill ready.

While we're at it let's stop cutting down trees. That's ruining our environment as well. And let's keep those pesky minerals in the ground where they belong. We should rip up the train tracks that cross our province. After all accidents happen but we can prevent them if we have no tracks for them to drive on.

"Government makes big $ form petrolium products"

That is just the thing .. we don't. Alberta makes money and the Feds make money of the oil sands. BC does not.

It is almost akin to selling whole logs to other countries. The country makes very few products from the oil. They do that in other countries and then sell the plastics, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, etc. back to us.

As they say, the blue-eyed Sheiks is who we are. Except we have to work a bit harder to extract the oil than the Middle East oil.

NMG, now you are talking!! Just like Texas that has people who developed expertise from their oil boom years to cap wells even under extreme conditions with out of control fires. They go all over the world with their special knowledge and skills.

I could have added "If only the bozos on here could put ideas like that together this part of the world would have a fighting chance at survival in the modern world" .....

But I decided not to because I might get attacked. :-)

I liked the idea of the US building a coast highway through BC to ship their oil down to the lower 48. I'm not sure which government wouldn't allow it but it was a sure boost to our economy and it was damn foolish to put a stop to it. It would have opened up tourism to our west coast and brought prosperity to all those smaller towns. Oh well---just another sad BC memory.

Great....now it can be transferred by rail because they have a much better record!