Barane McCartney draws attention to the OCP that clearly prohibits LNG. By Peter W. Rusland, Originally published in the South Cowichan Echo While South-Cowichanian’s fear development of a floating liquefied natural Read more…
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Cowichan Conversations: Tsartlip Elder Takes Gordon Wilson To Task At North Saanich-Steelhead LNG Meeting
Independent film maker Gary McNutt captured this exchange at the Sidney LNG meeting a couple of weeks ago. Tsartlip Elder Fraser Smith was not taking any bullshit from Premier Christy Clark’s LNG pimp Gordon Wilson. Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: CVRD Chair Jon Lefebure – Respect and Adhere To The South Cowichan OCP
Here is a statement released by the CVRD followed by a pitch from Chair Lefebure to accomodate an application from Steelhead LNG/ Malahat Nation Board Releases Statement on LNG Projects in Cowichan Valley Duncan: Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Steelhead LNG’s Howe Street Executive Demands Surreal Surrender By CVRD Elected Officials
The newly implanted CVRD CAO Brian Carruthers probably thought he finally arrived when his shop received correspondence from the infamous Howe Street, the Vancouver equivalent to Toronto’s Bay Street and New York’s Wall Street. But Read mor…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Malahat Nation Cleans House- Fires Former Chief Michael Harry’s Insiders
The Malahat Nation is long overdue for some breaks and ownership control of the Bamberton lands would certainly be a good start. I sure hope that they finish the housecleaning by giving Steelhead LNG the Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Steelhead LNG and KERN have even more grandiose plans for Sarita Bay on Port Alberni Inlet
Don Maroc Steelhead LNG and the Malahat First Nation have scheduled another public meeting to try to convince local south Cowichan residents of the incredible benefits of operating a floating liquid natural gas processing Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: The Malahat Nation People Have Been Hijacked And Are Without Representation.
Richard Hughes The Malahat Nation people have been hijacked, and are without representation. They are being taken for a ride by some very slick, bold and aggressive Steelhead LNG hustlers. The chatter between the Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Maroc-It would be reasonable if the Malahat Nation put the LNG proposal on hold until they sorted out their internal problems
Don Maroc by Don Maroc Thanks to Adam Olsen, of the Tsarslip Nation and the BC Green Party for his preceptive chronicling of the proposed partnership between the Malahat Nation and Steelhead LNG to Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Victoria Times Colonist ‘Confused Editorial’ On Steelhead-Malahat Nation-LNG
This is a surprisingly out of touch editorial from the Times Colonist regarding the unorthodox staged LNG announcement driven by Steelhead LNG. Surprising in that most often the TC editorials are above the bar when Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Green Parties Interim President Responds to Steelhead LNG -Malahat Nation LNG Announcement-Audio
The BC Greens Interim leader came out shortly after the Steelhead-Malahat Nation public announcement. Here is a release from Adam Olsen Interim BC Green Leader. Malahat LNG by Adam Olsen Interim President BC Green Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Malahat Nation and Steelhead LNG to Announce an LNG project.
Cowichan Conversations broke the story of an impending LNG Project announcement August 9th. Today the announcement has been scheduled for Thursday, August 20th 2015 at 10AM. On Thursday, August 20th, 10 am, the Malahat Nation Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Malahat Chief Michael Harry and Council Have resigned!
Word of the mass resignation of the Malahat Nation has been directed to Cowichan Conversations. What drove the resignations? To escape scrutiny? The relationship with South Island Aggregates? The LNG play? Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Malahat Nation intends to announce an LNG project.
Here is another shocker for Vancouver Island and Gulf Island communities. It appears that LNG Tankers may soon be plying our waters as the Malahat Nation and Steelhead LNG forge a partnership that could bring Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Shawnigan’s Fight Against Contaminated Soil“ This is Crazy!”
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Shawnigan resident Sonia Furstenau has been following the South Island Aggregates (SIA) efforts to import 5 million tonnes of contaminated soils to their Stebbings Road property in the Shawnigan Watershed from the outset. She attended the Ministry of Environment-Environmental Appeal Board hearings and has written this account
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