I have come to the conclusion that the three major positions by the BC Political Parties boils down to this.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

I have come to the conclusion that the positions by the three BC Political Parties boil down to this. Two are obvious, one, the NDP, much less so.

BC Conservatives: Drill Baby Drill Forever cuz God will eventually save us from our own stupidity, or we'll go to heaven anyway so it doesn't matter.

BC Greens: LNG is just lipstick on a fossil fuel pig. It needs to stop as part of a strategy of transition for workers and the economy. (see link)

BC NDP: We believe in Climate Change and that we should reduce our emissions. But workers vote. So we're going to string the industry along for long enough that people get jobs for awhile and we get donations. Hopefully it'll all just collapse and we can move people to other industries before we actually start shipping this liquified idiocy in large amounts out of BC.

#BCLNG #CPBC #BCNDP #BCGreen #ClimateChange #ClimatePolicy #JustTransition #Workers #BCPoli #CanPoli #EndFossilFuels

Monique Keiran: Study finds LNG's greenhouse-gas footprint worse than coal

LNG has a greenhouse-gas footprint that is 33 per cent worse than coal when processing and shipping are considered, a recent study found.

Times Colonist (www.timescolonist.com)

Danneau

@chris Pretty much. One of the most frustrating parts of current existence is the lack of vision and leadership to take us remotely close to a somewhat safe future. I heard some of it from Furstenau, and she has been unseated, while the Cons trumpet bidnuss as usual and drill, baby, drill, and the Dippers make noise but live out the Mose Allison thought: "Everybody cryin' peace on earth, just as soon as we win this war," while the laws of thermodynamics and species extinction continue to move implacably down the path of chaos and destruction...as we move cheerily into oblivion.

Danneau

@chris Also frustrating is that we have the intellectual backstopping to look after the worst of the crises, finance, tech, biology, social adjustments and what have you, but there seems to be a lack of penetration of those ideas and a lack of willingness to charge up and hoist ourselves out of our glutted torpor.

sleepy62

@chris
The NDP is first and foremost a labour party. Environment and Climate will always come second.

Can't stress this enough.

#bcpoli #cdnpoli

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@sleepy62 I would qualify that as - corporate-labour party -

There is a very bright divide now in the labour movement in BC and worldwide between the industrialist, late 20th century union movements that continue to try to apply the old rules and still have a lot of sway in the NDP... and the modern union movement which is much more socially and environmentally progressive.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@sleepy62 the old guard is slowly retiring and being replaced with more progressive forces, but it has been a slow and sometimes fraught process. Especially in the O&G sector

sleepy62

@chris

Well I hope youre right. But it seems a ways off.

The federal NDP support scrapping the carbon tax, multiple provincial NDP parties are the same.
While at the same time cheer leading #FossilFuels expansion.
In the last Sask leader's debate not single question was asked about climate change.

Better than the cons, yes. But thats a pretty low bar...

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@sleepy62 oh for sure. NDP in BC is definitely the furthest along the progressive path. Other provincial parties are VERY local-focused on O&G. And Federally, it's all dependant on who you talk to but I think the "epicentre" in Ontario is largely beholden to the car-dependent unions. So more corporate-union/regressive.

But the *fight* internally, is very real at all levels and locations.