KISPIOX, BC — BC Greens interim leader Jeremy Valeriote has issued the following statement on the Ksi Lisims LNG project:
“No matter how the BC government tries to spin it, this LNG export project is 100% owned by US companies, will be built in Korea, and represents a 30-megaton carbon bomb that threatens the health and livelihoods of local residents.”
“The BC Greens oppose this project for its devastating climate impacts, its risks to salmon and human health, and its economic uncertainty.”
“Even the Province’s own release shows that Ksi Lisims LNG is opposed by many First Nations and local communities. The fracking, liquefying, piping, and shipping of methane will cause lasting harm to the environment and to people’s way of life.”
“LNG is not a clean fuel. It is not a bridge to renewable energy — it is a bridge to nowhere. This project props up a dying fossil fuel industry while the Premier greenwashes the false idea that clean energy isn’t possible or profitable right now.”
“The NDP has approved a foreign-owned, foreign-built fossil fuel project that will enrich US billionaires while leaving British Columbians to bear the costs. This desperate search for short-term revenue is the result of years failing to invest in the clean economy of the future. Now, BC is being dragged backwards by the interests of powerful corporations.”
“The Province is gambling with the communities of Northern BC and their livelihoods on a project destined to be obsolete. The common-sense alternative is right in front of us, and the writing is on the wall, but this government refuses to read it.”
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