{"article":{"id":272290,"heading":"Summer of discontent: Mega-project protests across B.C.","author":"Cheryl Chan","created":"2015-07-24 12:59:54","modified":"2015-07-24 20:55:25","last_modified":"Sat, 25 Jul 2015 03:55:25","article":"<p>Summer of discontent: mega-project protests loom across B.C. <br>  <br> by Cheryl Chan, The Province, July 23, 2015 <br><br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprovince.com\/technology\/Summer\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.theprovince.com\/technology\/Summer<\/a>+discontent+Mega+project+pro... <br><br> Major resource development schemes, from pipelines to the Site C dam, have many people ready to stand up and be counted <br><br> A number of major resource development projects in the works in B.C. are facing near-unprecedented levels of opposition from groups vowing the projects will never get off the ground. <br><br> Mega-project pipelines and LNG plants are touted to bring windfalls of jobs and riches to the province, but they have also triggered disobedience and dissent. <br><br> &ldquo;The number of big projects with big fights at the same time is something new,&rdquo; said Ben West, executive director of Tanker Free B.C. &ldquo;There have been multiple forestry projects at the same time with campaigns against them ... but people mobilizing at this level on so many things simultaneously is new.&rdquo; <br><br> Facing a gauntlet of determined residents, environmental groups and First Nations are: Kinder Morgan&rsquo;s Trans Mountain expansion, the Site C hydroelectric dam, Woodfibre LNG and Enbridge&rsquo;s Northern Gateway project &mdash; the opposition to which is rivalled only by the legendary Clayoquot Sound protests in the 1990s, said West. <br>  <br> <\/p>\n","contact":"marc1seed@yahoo.com","link":"www.freembtranslations.net","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"System change - not climate change!\r\nThe people united shall never be defeated!\r\nThe economy should be a part of life, not a steamroller crushing creativity, self-determination and the rights of nature.","numcomment":1,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2015\/07\/272290.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":272292,"heading":"corrected URL","article":"http:\/\/www.theprovince.com\/technology\/Summer+discontent+Mega+project+protests+loom\/11237932\/story.html","author":"www.theprovince.com","parent_id":272290,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2015-07-24 20:55:25","modified":"2015-07-24 20:55:25","fileurl":""}]}