Two resolutions for UBCM

The Powell River Regional District has submitted two resolutions related to LNG and gas-fired generation to the Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM) annual convention, which begins on September 22, in Penticton.

B76 GAS-FIRED ELECTRICITY GENERATING FACILITY EMISSIONS

WHEREAS the BC Energy Plan states that:

• Achieving electricity self-sufficiency is fundamental to our future energy security and that BC shall achieve electricity self-sufficiency by 2016; and that

• As part of its commitment to ensure that BC’s electricity sector remains one of the cleanest in the world, the province will require zero greenhouse gas emissions from any coal thermal electricity facilities to be met through capture and sequestration technology; but that

• For existing and new electricity plants the government policy will provide for reaching zero net emissions through carbon offsets from other activities in British Columbia;

AND WHEREAS WestPac LNG is soliciting interest to build an LNG import facility and an associated 600MW gas-fired electricity generating plant on Texada Island, which are inconsistent with the Province’s goals of energy self-sufficiency and clean power and are potentially harmful to the health of citizens throughout the surrounding regions:

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the UBCM urge the provincial government, as part of achieving the BC Energy Plan, to require zero greenhouse gas emissions from new gas-fired electricity generation stations.

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B143 LNG TANKER TRAFFIC BAN IN GEORGIA STRAIT

WHEREAS the waters of Georgia and Malaspina Straits provide a vital habitat for diverse bird and fish species, a corridor for commercial and recreational marine traffic and an attraction for upland settlement;

AND WHEREAS WestPac LNG is soliciting interest to build an LNG import facility and associated 600MW gas-fired electricity generating plant on Texada Island, which will involve the passage of a significant number of LNG tankers in the Georgia Strait, which will interfere with existing marine traffic, put at risk these ecologically important and sensitive inland waters, and negatively impact upland development along this route:

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the UBCM urge the federal government to ban the passage of LNG tankers in the waters of the Malaspina and Georgia Straits.

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