LNG: BC's Oil Sands?

1. Oil
The Plan: Fracking
financial
risk
Liquefication
Plants
Pipelines
climate change
Ramp up production of fracked
gas in B.C. and Alberta for export
to Asian markets.
To liquefy fracked gas for
export, it must be cooled to
-162 C. A single export facility
will use as much electricity in a
year as Vancouver. LNG is then
loaded on to tankers; proposed
tanker routes include coastal
waters off Kitimat, eastern
Vancouver Island and
Squamish.
Touted as ‘greener than oil’, the unconventional natural
gas industry—when looked at from extraction to
liquefication to burning—is as dirty as coal.
12 proposed LNG
pipeline projects are
set to criss-cross the
province. Once in
place, gas
pipelines can
be converted
to carry
diluted
bitumen &
other fuels.
To provide enough gas for
export, 50,000 new fracking
wells will be drilled over the
next 20 years. The resulting
fences, roads, and wells
fragment the landscape,
threatening wildlife and
making it impossible for First
Nations to hunt and fish in
their territories.
BC is competing with
Qatar, Australia and
Russia who already
have LNG
infrastructure
in place:
we are inviting
foreign investors
to build trillion-dollar
infrastructure but
have no guarantee
of a market.
What
goes
must come
DOWN
UP
A toxic cocktail of
water and dangerous chemicals
is belched up with each “frack”.
This dirty mix is stored in tailings ponds,
contaminating rural air and groundwater.
More than 500 chemicals are
used to frack, including
hydrochloric acid, lead,
mercury, radium &
formaldehyde.
First Nations are taking legal
action to prevent LNG pipelines in
their traditional territories.
Will you stand with them?
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LNG
85 percent of B.C.’s natural gas is now extracted
through hydraulic fracturing or “fracking”, a
process that requires massive water resources,
contaminates grounwater and releases methane
— a greenhouse gas that is 40 times more
damaging to the atmosphere than carbon
dioxide.
Oil
The Plan: Fracking
financial
risk
Liquefication
Plants
Pipelines
climate change
Ramp up production of fracked
gas in B.C. and Alberta for export
to Asian markets.
To liquefy fracked gas for
export, it must be heated to
extreme temperatures. A single
export facility will use as much
electricity in a year as
Vancouver. LNG is then loaded
on to tankers; proposed tanker
routes include coastal waters
off Kitimat, eastern Vancouver
Island and Squamish.
Touted as ‘greener than oil’, the unconventional natural
gas industry—when looked at from extraction to
liquefication to burning—is as dirty as coal.
12 proposed LNG
pipeline projects are
set to criss-cross the
province. Once in
place, gas
pipelines can
be converted
to carry
diluted
bitumen &
other fuels.
To provide enough gas for
export, 50,000 new fracking
wells will be drilled over the
next 20 years. The resulting
fences, roads, and wells
fragment the landscape,
threatening wildlife and
making it impossible for First
Nations to hunt and fish in
their territories.
BC is competing with
Qatar, Australia and
Russia who already
have LNG
infrastructure
in place:
we are inviting
foreign investors
to build trillion-dollar
infrastructure but
have no guarantee
of a market.
What
goes
must come
DOWN
UP
A toxic cocktail of
water and dangerous chemicals
is belched up with each “frack”.
This dirty mix is stored in tailings ponds,
contaminating rural air and groundwater.
More than 500 chemicals are
used to frack, including
hydrochloric acid, lead,
mercury, radium &
formaldehyde.
First Nations are taking legal
action to prevent LNG pipelines in
their traditional territories.
Will you stand with them?
LNG
85 percent of B.C.’s natural gas is now extracted
through hydraulic fracturing or “fracking”, a
process that requires massive water resources,
contaminates grounwater and releases methane
— a greenhouse gas that is 40 times more
damaging to the atmosphere than carbon
dioxide.
A liquefication facility proposed for the Skeena
River estuary, where 80-90% of Skeena salmon
and steelhead have their nurseries, threatens to
wipe out a salmon run that forms the economic,
social and cultural foundation of life in the north.