The Globe and Mail reports in its Saturday edition that BC Liberal Leader Christy Clark
last week blasted her New
Democrat rivals for a platform
that she said would kill the fledgling liquefied
natural gas industry. The Globe's Justine Hunter writes that Ms. Clark is doubling
down on LNG.
Natural resource industries
dominate the economy in the
north, the interior and much of
Vancouver Island. That makes up
32 of 87 seats in this election, and
these are battlegrounds that neither
the NDP nor the Liberals will
ignore.
During the 2013 campaign, a mid-campaign
flip-flop proved disastrous for the
party after then-leader Adrian
Dix declared the party's opposition
to the Kinder Morgan pipeline. Today the NDP is still hobbled by
opposition to Enbridge rival's
pipeline project. The
town of Kitimat has seen a short-lived
boom as LNG proponents
prepared the groundwork for
facilities that may yet be built.
Kitimat resident Elizabeth MacDonald says the promise
of LNG has made a significant
difference in the region.
New Democrat Jennifer Rice concedes voters are divided over
the prospects of LNG, but she says
the Liberals are misleading when they assert the NDP would
shut it down.
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