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 In this January 19th, CBC interview, our chairperson, David Ellis, outlines our reasons for opposing the proposed LNG terminal and pipeline in Placentia Bay. And here is chapter member, Helen Forsey's January 18th Letter to the Telegram on the issue. ...................................................................................................................................................................................... The proposal for a Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) terminal and pipeline in Placentia Bay is an assault on our ocean, our coastline and our fisheries – part of the oil and gas industry's efforts to continue profiting from its destruction of the planet. The companies and the government seem to think that Newfoundlanders and Labradorians are stunned enough to go along with a project that will intensify climate change and perilously delay the necessary urgent transition to renewable energy sources and reduced energy demand. But we refuse to swallow the lies they are feeding us. We know that approving the Placentia Bay LNG would be a catastrophe – another in the chain of environmental and financial disasters of which Muskrat Falls is only the most notorious link. The involvement of the Miawpukek First Nation leadership in no way changes the appalling facts. Public opposition to the LNG project has been vigorously expressed, with detailed and irrefutable reasons, by (among others) the FFAW and the Council of Canadians, both locally and nationally. This despite the insultingly short timeline for public comment – Dec. 30, during the holidays, with a ministerial decision expected mere days later. If this government has any respect for the people, land and waters of Newfoundland and Labrador, it must reject this outrageous proposal outright. Helen Forsey, St. John's
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