Pacific NorthWest LNG - North American LNG Exports - B.C. Won't Even Get The Jobs

North American LNG Export Terminal - B.C. Won't Even Get The Jobs!

North American LNG Exports - B.C. Won't Even Get The Jobs!
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/petronas-pushes-offshore-work-for-british-columbia-lng-venture/article21960284/

First get the local Unions and job markets on board, Then the Environmental Assessment and reports of robust economic activity, convince the landowners, screw the Indigenous People, and voila, it's Business As Usual, and more profitable.

Petronas (Malaysia) will focus in 2015 on selecting the winning bid for a crucial phase called engineering, procurement, construction and commission. Pacific NorthWest LNG received clearance last month from the B.C. Environmental Assessment Office, but the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency is the lead regulator on the file, and the project might be waiting until mid-2015 for federal approval.

Crucial alright, a state owned dictatorial regime, operating on North American soil.

A group of four First Nations has voiced opposition, citing the threat to salmon in the Skeena River.

Who is Petronas? The Malaysian State-owned oil and gas company, ranked worst according to Management and Excellence corporate social responsibility indexes (Madrid, Spain).

On average, most companies scored highest under "ethics" with an average of 73.3%. Ethics simply means having and promoting a detailed code of conduct and staying out of trouble.

Companies with low scores, such as Gazprom and Petronas, largely failed to communicate or even implement a code of conduct and ethics, although this is among the least expensive ways of gaining points. Top performers such as Chevron, Statoil and Total, implemented codes explaining how employees should deal with difficult cases of bribery and conflicts of interest.

Recent news from Malaysia;
40 organizations call on the President of the Asian Development Bank to withdraw a proposed loan to Sarawak Energy for a transmission line.
http://staging.world-wire.com/2014/10/15/asian-development-bank-urged-to-shelve-loan-for-sarawak/

SARAWAK, Malaysia, October 15, 2014 Environmental and human rights groups from Malaysia and internationally are calling on the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to shelve a proposal to loan up to US$45 million for building the “Trans-Borneo Power Grid” (transmission lines) in Sarawak, Malaysia. 40 organizations have issued a letter to the President of the ADB, Mr. Takehiko Nakao, and the bank’s board of directors warning them of the reputational and financial risks associated with the loan.

In the Spring of 2014 Malaysia rejected a suggestion at the United Nations that the UN Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Rights should be allowed to visit the country and evaluate the treatment of the Orang Ulu.

Going back in time to 1971, Several factors converged to prompt the Malaysian government into setting up a state oil and gas company, as first proposed in its Five Year Plan. These were years in which power in the world oil industry began to shift away from the majors, which then controlled more than 90 percent of the oil trade, toward the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), as well as a proliferation of new private and state companies joining in the search for reserves. By 1985, the majors, reduced in number from seven to five, were producing less than 20 percent of the world total.

A whole new group of oil and gas companies have become today's Titans. The "New Seven Sisters" selected recently by the Financial Times (FT) highlights how largely state-owned companies from the emerging world have become key global players in oil and gas. The FT ranked the New Seven Sisters on the basis of resource base, level of output, company's ambition, scale of their domestic market, and influence in the industry. In order of prominence, they are Saudi Aramco, Russia's Gazprom, CNPC of China, NIOC of Iran, Venezuela's PDVSA, Brazil's Petrobras and Petronas of Malaysia.

The New Seven Sisters control about one-third of the world's oil and gas production and reserves. In contrast, remaining descendants of the Western Seven Sisters, ExxonMobil and Chevron of the U.S. and Europe's BP and Royal Dutch Shell, produce only about 10% of the world's oil and gas and hold just 3% of its reserves.

And if anything, the New Seven Sisters are set to grow even more powerful. The International Energy Agency (IEA) calculates that over the next 40 years, 90% of new supplies will come from developing countries. But beware of Global Climate Funds, Climate Investment Funds, and Investments In Developing Economies Renewables under the guise of Clean Energy - Hydrocarbon Extraction
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/11/07/18763887.php

In Canada, First Nations leaders want the joint venture, led by Malaysia’s state-owned Petronas, to withdraw plans to build on Lelu Island because of fears that construction of a LNG terminal will damage eelgrass beds in Flora Bank, where young salmon swim. Petronas has already warned that it will suspend the project for 15 years unless tax and regulatory issues are resolved, so the focus on saving the fish adds yet another layer of complexity to a delicate situation.

Leaders from the Wet’suwet’en, Gitanyow, Lake Babine and Gitxsan say Pacific NorthWest LNG’s proposed site at Lelu Island in northwestern British Columbia is the wrong place to locate an LNG export terminal because of the harm to salmon habitat in the estuary of the Skeena River, near Lelu Island. “You couldn’t pick a worse place to put a B.C. project such as this,” John Ridsdale, hereditary chief of the Wet’suwet’en Nation’s Tsayu clan, said in an interview. “The plan for Lelu Island is ludicrous.”

The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency raised concerns in May about the fate of wild salmon, which are important for First Nations’ food. The Wet’suwet’en, Gitanyow, Lake Babine and Gitxsan, who voiced their criticisms at a news conference in Vancouver, say no amount of mitigation measures will satisfy them.

Support Indigenous Rights Through Climate Action
http://indigenousrising.org/

“We are in a historic moment wherein world leaders will continue drafting a new global treaty agreement on climate change this year in Lima, Peru at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference on Parties (COP). The final agreement is then expected to be signed in 2015 at the COP 21 in Paris.”

“Having the voices of our Indigenous communities at this global meeting on climate is critical, and we need your help as we engage not only in Lima, but on the Red Road to Paris in 2015.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Qyrpq2-t1aw

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