Premier David Eby responded to Donald Trump’s tariff threats this week by fast-tracking 10 resource projects, including mines, fracked gas pipelines and LNG infrastructure.
Eby says these projects will "diversify and strengthen" B.C., but chaining our economy to a volatile industry — supporting companies and infrastructure owned by Americans — isn’t exercising independence. It's giving Trump exactly what he wants: drill, baby, drill.
Trump’s billionaire Wall Street donors are buying up fossil fuel infrastructure in B.C. and across Canada. When they look north, all they see is dollar signs. And Eby's move to expedite gas projects is music to their ears.
Approving LNG infrastructure is about exports that make gas companies money, not independence from the U.S. or lower prices for people here at home. And as long as we keep playing the role as a "tap" to the United States, they'll never take us seriously as a nation.
The only way to achieve the energy security Eby is promising is by skipping the global LNG game and investing into more renewable energy projects here at home.
