“We need the CCPA to remind us that our dreams of a decent, egalitarian society are reasonable — indeed that with a little work, they are practical. And I love that practicality, that protection of the dream of the possible.”
— Naomi Klein
Issue(s): Energy policy, Environment and sustainability
Projects & Initiatives: Resource Economics Project (BC)
November 22, 2007
It took intense pressure and heat over millions of years to turn buried plant and animal life into the natural gas that energy companies now suck out of the ground with increasing speed in northeast BC.
It will take just 34 years, based on current rates of production and reliable estimates of what remains, to deplete that irreplaceable, publicly owned natural resource – and half that time if, as BC government leaders have sometimes advocated, energy companies were to double their efforts.
Which raises an interesting question: Why, in a province with a rich legacy of p