B.C. being hypocritical on clean energy

Here is a direct quote from B.C.’s new CleanBC environment plan: “From fossil fuels to clean energy.”

The problem is: Fossil-fuel development in the form of natural gas will be increasing with the new $40-billion Kitimat LNG facility. And it is getting tax incentives. There is also another LNG project (Woodfibre) close to development just south of Squamish.

There is nothing in the plan that addresses coal production in the province, transportation of coal by rail or its export from the Deltaport. The government on its website lists nine operating coal mines in B.C.

How are citizens of the province to take seriously this new plan of reducing fossil fuels when the same government provides tax breaks to big companies from China, Korea, Japan and the Netherlands to build it — and a separate new $6.2-billion pipeline is to be built to carry the gas to the new project?

How are citizens to take seriously this new plan when coal production and its transportation continue?

Don’t get me wrong. I am in favour of all these projects.

I just don’t like seeing a government pretending to be green and announcing reducing fossil fuels while at the same time it continues to provide our tax money for fossil-fuel development in the form of LNG and continues to issue permits for coal production, the province being the largest coal producer in Canada. Brian Peckford Nanaimo