(Ingrid Rice cartoon, via IntegrityBC)
One red light going off when Steelhead started working with Huu-Ay-Aht on an LNG port at Sarita Bay, old (at least in spirit) white guys from Howe Street (or wherever) promoting a get-rich-quick scheme likely to utterly destroy most everything in its path, and lots of folks, including some (really) old white guys feel really uncomfortable pointing out the pitfalls to people plundered by their Wall Street culture, just the sense that there’s a scam at work here, one that fits in well with the kind of hucksterism that characterizes everything that has come out of Victoria/Ottawa in the last fifteen years.
Now double the trepidation as a project of similar nature is brought forward by the Malahat First Nation in cahoots with the very same Steelhead crowd: this reminds me of the smelter proposition that kicked around these parts, studies paid and plagiarized, not a snowball’s chance of ever happening and the air of scam all about. According to reports in media (OK, I don’t trust them either) there was a missing detail with the Malahat crowd in that they don’t seem to have consulted with their membership, kinda à la NEB.
Given the general seeming acceptance of Victoria’s LNG ploy at face value, it looks as though a lot of people are set up to lose a lot of face in the whole deal. Sad.
I agree completely, this proposal by Steelhead LNG(Howe Street boys) has zero chance of ever going forward..
My latest overview on LNG….Steelhead`s whimsical proposal is featured …
http://powellriverpersuader.blogspot.ca/2015/08/british-columbia-and-lngs-last-gaspa.html
It amazes me how BC`s mainstream media regurgitates garbage…
Maybe British Columbia could profit from media sewer gas, seems plentiful around here.
This is a quick and flip little piece and barely an introduction to all the good work you’ve produced on the unending gusher of corrupt proposals that seem to have their neuronic centres in the offices along the Clark-Coleman corridor. I suppose it’s part of the legacy of Enron (isn’t that how you really spell Kinder Morgan?) and the whole Rand/Strauss/Friedman economic justification for greed and pillaging. In any case, you are a tonic for all the crap that circulates in the MSM, and I visit your site pretty much every day. Keep tearing away at the curtain (but take a moment or two to go fishing).
Well said. My suspicion is that the B C Libs and the LNG ‘Thugs in Suits’ are preying on poorer First Nations Bands.
at least they are attempting to do so, and I can only hope that there will be folks in the office who see the whole ploy for what it is. Thanks for reading.
Thanks Danneau…Thought you should read this, The Financial Post…They must be reading The Straight Goods too.
http://business.financialpost.com/news/energy/window-of-opportunity-for-new-lng-projects-is-gone-because-of-supply-glut-consultancy-says?__lsa=2d00-d796