{"id":948,"date":"2015-08-21T20:06:12","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T03:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/?p=948"},"modified":"2015-08-21T20:06:12","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T03:06:12","slug":"double-your-pleasure-double-your-fun-chew-on-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/?p=948","title":{"rendered":"Double Your Pleasure, Double Your Fun (Chew On This)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/LNG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-949\" src=\"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/LNG.jpg\" alt=\"LNG\" width=\"610\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/LNG.jpg 610w, http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/LNG-300x209.jpg 300w, http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/LNG-431x300.jpg 431w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(Ingrid Rice cartoon, via IntegrityBC)<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s chance of ever happening and the air of scam all about. According to reports in media (OK, I don&#8217;t trust them either) there was a missing detail with the Malahat crowd in that they don&#8217;t seem to have consulted with their membership, kinda \u00e0 la NEB.<\/p>\n<p>Given the general seeming acceptance of Victoria&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; (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 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/?p=948\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13,5,3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biosphere","category-kultcha","category-money","category-politics","category-hell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":950,"href":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/outoffog.net\/RESH\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}