Erica Fisher, EnergeticCity.ca, Fort St. John, Feb 8, 2012

Site C and B.C.'s proposed LNG development go hand in hand, according to Premier Christy Clark. In an interview with Moose FM/energeticcity.ca, Clark explained that the newly approved licence for Shell to export liquefied natural gas out of Kitimat will use 100 per cent of the power Site C would create.

Marc Lee, Progressive Economics Forum, February 8, 2012

With the spotlight on the federal government’s aggressive push to export tar sands bitumen via the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline to Kitimat, and from there by tanker on to China, the BC government reclaimed some attention on the energy file when it released its Natural Gas Strategy last week. With lots of glossy pages, but little detailed content, it is reflective of Premier Clark’s signature style. The short of it is that shale gas from BC’s Northeast is to be pipelined to Kitimat and loaded onto tankers in liquid form (LNG) to be exported to China. Between LNG and Enbridge, little Kitimat is poised become an export platform for the two most environmentally controversial practices of the oil and gas industry, shale gas and tar sands extraction, all to appease the endless appetite for energy coming from the curious blend of totalitarian police state and unbridled capitalism that is modern China.

Joe Romm, ThinkProgress.org, Feb 8 2012

Air sampling by NOAA over Colorado Finds 4% Methane Leakage, More Than Double Industry Claims

Robin Rowland, North Coast Energy News, February 2, 2012

The National Energy Board has approved a 20-year-export licence for Kitimat’s second LNG project, known as BC LNG. A NEB news release says:

News Release, Premier's Office, Feb 3 2012

VANCOUVER - Premier Christy Clark today announced British Columbia's natural gas strategy will be established on a foundation of four priorities for long-term economic prosperity under the BC Jobs Plan.

Stuart Burns, Ag Metal Miner, January 12, 2012

Capitalism is a wonderful thing. It can create so much wealth, spur so much research and progress that we sometimes take on blind faith that unrestrained pursuit of profit is a good thing.

By Rebecca Penty, Calgary Herald, January 6, 2012

TransCanada Corp., is in talks with Alaska's top energy producers on plans to export natural gas in liquid form by tanker, as its long-standing vision to link the state's vast quantities of northern gas with the North American pipeline system increasingly appears to be in jeopardy.

Jeff Montgomery, News Journal, DelawareOnline.com, Jan 6, 2012

N.J. terminal seen as unprofitable

A New York energy company has quietly surrendered its controversial authorization for a liquefied natural gas import terminal along the Delaware River in New Jersey, opposite Claymont, saying low domestic gas prices and rising global demands make the venture's profitability "unlikely."

By IAN URBINA, New York Times, December 30, 2011

KAROO, South Africa — When a drought dried up their wells last year, hundreds of farmers and their families flocked to local fairgrounds here to pray for rain, and a call went out on the regional radio station imploring South Africans to donate bottled water.

by Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, Dec. 29, 2011

This is part of our year-end series, looking at where things stand in each of our major investigations.

This was the year that "fracking" became a household word.

Jacob Adelman & Dinakar Sethuraman, Bloomberg, SFGate, December 29, 2011

The biggest surge in Asia's liquefied natural gas prices since 2008 may be ending as supplies increase from Australia and Angola and Middle East cargoes are diverted from the U.S. and Europe.

By Ben Lefebvre, Wall Street Journal, December 16, 2011

HOUSTON (MarketWatch) -- Cheniere Energy Inc. said Friday it is taking steps to develop a second terminal along the U.S. Gulf Coast to export liquefied natural gas.

The move would help the heavily indebted company tap into booming natural-gas production in the area.

By Paula Dittrick, Oil & Gas Journal, 12/16/2011

HOUSTON - If the US were to export 6 bcfd of LNG in the future, a world gas model developed by Deloitte MarketPoint LLC estimates a weighted-average price impact of 12¢/MMbtu on US prices during 2016-35, Deloitte LLP announced Dec. 15 at its annual Oil & Gas Conference in Houston.

Malcolm Baxter, Kitimat Sentinel, December 16, 2011

The Coastal First Nations Great Bear Initiative (CFN) say one of the redeeming features of liquefied natural gas exports is that in China it will be used largely to replace coal, “the greatest emitter of greenhouse gases on the planet.”

Elizabeth Kolbert, New Yorker, December 5, 2011

Americans have never met a hydrocarbon they didn’t like. Oil, natural gas, liquefied natural gas, tar-sands oil, coal-bed methane, and coal, which is, mostly, carbon—the country loves them all, not wisely, but too well. To the extent that the United States has an energy policy, it is perhaps best summed up as: if you’ve got it, burn it.

By JEFF BARNARD, San Jose Mercury News, December 7, 2011

A company that originally wanted to import liquefied natural gas from overseas through the Oregon port of Coos Bay received a preliminary permit Wednesday allowing it to switch to exporting.

By Andrew Maykuth, Philadelphia Inquirer, November 13, 2011

The shale-gas bonanza is fueling a hot competition among businesses that want to claim a share of what is promoted as an abundant long-term energy source.

by David Hughes, Watershed Sentinel, Nov-Dec 2011

Sacrificing BC's Energy and Environment for Profit

Natural gas has been hyped of late as a way to reduce carbon emissions and reliance on oil and coal in business-as-usual growth scenarios. Much of this speculation rests on new technology to produce gas from previously inaccessible shale reservoirs.

Rich Coleman and Vaughn Palmer, Voice of BC, Oct 27, 2011

Minister of Energy, Mines and Housing talks to Vaughn Palmer about an array of interesting topics about electricity, natural gas, shale gas, mining, smart meters, carbon neutrality, deferral accounts, BC's GHG.
 

By Edward McAllister, Reuters, October 26, 2011

• Cheniere to supply 3.5 mln tonnes a year to BG
  
• Deal will run for 20 years
  
• BG will ship LNG to markets across the globe

By MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED and CLIFFORD KRAUSS, New York Times, October 16, 2011

Kinder Morgan agreed on Sunday to buy the El Paso Corporation for about $21.1 billion in cash and stock, striking one of the biggest energy deals in history, to tap into a boom in natural gas drilling and production.

By Vaughn Palmer, Vancouver Sun, October 17, 2011

NEB approval grabs attention of would-be operators of Oregon's Coos Bay terminal

By Gordon Hamilton, Vancouver Sun, October 13, 2011

NEB’s okay opens new markets for Canadian natural gas

VANCOUVER — The National Energy Board has granted a 20-year licence to export liquid natural gas to KM LNG, the consortium with plans to build a liquid natural gas terminal at Kitimat, marking another step toward the construction of a $4.5 billion LNG terminal on B.C.’s west coast.

Justine Hunter, Globe and Mail, Oct. 10, 2011

VICTORIA— The industrial mega projects that provide the backbone of Premier Christy Clark’s jobs plan will require a huge increase in British Columbia’s electricity capacity – the equivalent of nearly three new Site C dams.

By Gordon Hoekstra, Postmedia News, September 29, 2011

VANCOUVER — B.C.'s energy regulator says it will investigate a link between hydraulic fracturing and new earthquake activity in the extreme northeastern corner of B.C.