Letter to the Editor

Why are we letting our B.C. Liberal Government and ‘Big Oil’ and ‘Big Coal’ plunder our petroleum, coal, and natural gas deposits as fast as they can?

Are we worried that those resources will not be worth anything as soon as alternative energy becomes common and cheap?  Well that is wrong, wrong, wrong.

Our natural resources will be valuable forever.  We should only extract our share and leave lots of natural gas, coal, and oil for future generations. My dad was a chemical engineer. He used to tell us in the 1960s and ‘70s that fossil fuels were far too precious to be blown out a commuter’s exhaust pipe.

Fossil fuels will be valuable forever as starter chemicals for industry.  If we are going to participate in the carbon-fibre economy of the future, having oil, natural gas, and coal left to sell as starter chemicals makes good business sense.  Let other countries sell off their resources fast and cheap. We should make sure we are getting good value for our resources.  The multinational companies should be paying us full value for our coal, oil, and natural gas, instead of making hefty political donations to the party in power to give them tax and royalty breaks.

We need to elect a government that is going to protect our children’s and grandchildren’s share of the resources.  The B.C. Liberals seem to be in a hurry to sell off our resources.  Are you NDPers willing to protect our children’s heritage?

Frank Hastings,

Cranbrook

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