Mr. Speaker, liquefied natural gas, when it comes from conventional natural gas, is a viable alternative and we used to call it a transition fuel when I was in Sierra Club in the early 1990s. Nobody in the environment movement calls it a transition fuel anymore because what we are dealing with is not conventional natural gas; we are fracking. Fracked natural gas has the same carbon footprint as coal, so it represents a major lie to tell British Columbians, for instance as our premier tells us, that this is going to be wonderful because they will burn it in China instead of coal and that will somehow help. The global atmosphere does not care where the carbon comes from. Carbon from fracking, and the methane that is released, does just as much damage to the atmosphere as burning coal in China. They should cancel it.
The fact that this is being heavily subsidized for a group of foreign corporations is a scandal. Most of the manufacturing, by the way, is taking place in the People's Republic of China to build what will then be shipped over to British Columbia. They should cancel it. It is a massive subsidy for jobs in the People's Republic of China. Let us put the jobs in Canada and produce renewable energy here.