Dear Editor:
Our Canadian industries punch well above their weight globally in innovative technology.
As a consulting engineer with over four decades experience in resource sectors, I know our industries are excellent innovators. Nothing stands still! Therefore, it’s irritating to read wildly uninformed opinions that deride our world-leading industries.
I truly feel for West Coast LNG who have passed every test (the toughest anywhere) and have the approval of all First Nations on the route and yet we only hear of opposition who have no local support.
In fact the $258 project in NE BC would supply China, etc, with cleaner fuels. I imagine headlines “Canadians cleaning the world” – but we won’t see that!
With the $20-billion proposed Teck Resources’ Fort McMurray oil and gas project (again fully approved, including all First Nations) we get a lower carbon footprint with Canadian resources. The process uses more efficient technologies. This project may still be arbitrarily cancelled by a group of non-technical “politicos” in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s federal cabinet.
Both projects produce significant jobs, more money for health, education, policing, etc. Why, I ask, would any developer invest money in projects here if they are stopped? They clearly want to, but sadly too many have left already! Two large LNG developers left as soon as Trudeau and his party gained office!
Canada has fabulous resources the world needs. Standards, engineering and construction are second to none. Media coverage seems un-Canadian to me in that it does not give balanced views. Example: have we heard that all elected First Nations on the pipeline routes in both BC and Alberta are wholeheartedly in favour? I listen and have not!
We do hear that First Nations groups in other parts of the country are rebelling. Media has a moral obligation to accurately cover these stories. Sadly, in this task, it has failed!
Mike Hall,
Guelph-Eramosa