Environment Minister McKenna claims to be seeking a balance between the environment and the
economy with the approval of the $36-billion Pacific Northwest fracked liquefied natural gas
project. Is she negotiating with the environment as if it was a postal union? Will she allow the
environment to permit water to flow uphill? A decade ago, the environment took from BC a forest
the size of Sweden at a cost of over $10 billion. The environment is raising oceans that will flood
large cities. It’s battering us with more frequent, more powerful tropical storms. The environment
will continue to operate according to the laws of physics. There cannot be a sustainable
economy without a sustainable environment. We are in the midst of an urgent Global
Environmental Crisis. We must bailout the environment as aggressively as we bailed out the
banks in 2008. These aren’t negotiations. This is war.

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