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On the last Monday before school started, I loaded my kids into the van and told them we were on a mission. We were going to drive 45 minutes to Kitimat, B.C. to take some photos. They were intrigued. After fifteen minutes on the road, we stopped at Sockeye creek, a tributary of the Skeena river, where I sang as I walked to warn bears that I was on the trail. When I spotted the arching red backs of spawning salmon, I waded in up to the bottom of my rolled pants and snapped a few photos for an article Maaike is writing for our October issue.
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Back in the van, we drove along the meandering Kitimat river down to the industrial sprawl that hugs the shores of the Pacific inlet where all of Canada’s liquid natural gas (LNG) exports travel. I stopped a few times to grab photos of the towering flame (occasionally compared to the eye of Mordor) that burns off the access gas at the LNG-Canada facility.
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To me, it seems strange to document things that are so close to home. CC has only five print subscribers in Terrace and none in Kitimat, so I’m aware that what happens in my corner of B.C. usually isn’t relevant to our news pages. But when it comes to major nation-building projects promoted by the Carney government, like LNG processing and export, I live in a hot spot.
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Last month, Gerard Kreeft, a Canadian living in the Netherlands with experience in the oil and gas sector, pitched a story about the false promise of natural gas. His points directly contradicted what I’d been hearing from Canadians who support developing and exporting our natural resources and I wanted to hear more. It turns out both can be true at the same time: domestically, LNG infrastructure is growing fast and with confidence, but globally, LNG demand is shifting and possibly slowing down.
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My Labour Day photography mission brought the tension between creation care and resource development into sharp focus. Spawning salmon travel along the same water bodies that carry Canadian natural gas across the Pacific. If rapidly increasing our LNG exports is key to Canada's nation building strategy, what does that mean for the salmon? Maaike's story in our October issue will tackle that question, so if you're not already a subscriber, now is a good time to sign-up. It's always more fun to read in print.
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THE FALSE PROMISE OF NATURAL GAS
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Canada is staking its energy future on exporting LNG. But will there be a buyer when the projects are complete?
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Gerard Kreeft
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B.C.’s NDP government continues to promote LNG projects as a win-win-win for the environment, the economy and nation building. The export of LNG to Asia-Pacific markets will help Canada diversify its trading partners and be less reliant on the U.S. First Nations are taking a leading role, and the reliance on hydroelectric power will keep the carbon footprint low. But will the projects deliver on these promises?
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BUILDING CANADA'S LNG DREAMS
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“Having the largest private sector energy investment in Canadian history essentially in my backyard is pretty incredible,” says David Bakker.
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Meghan Kort
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Christian Courier spoke with David Bakker, a superintendent with Monster Industries, about Canada’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) ambitions. Earlier this year, the federal government announced that Canada is on its way to becoming an LNG superpower with a goal of exporting 100 million tonnes per year.
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STRONGER THAN STEEL
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Post World-War II, high-peaked, wooden-ribbed churches made practical and theological sense. How about today?
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Peter Bulthuis
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Have you noticed the beams? The ones that make a church worship space look like an upside-down ark? Maybe you enjoyed counting them as a kid during a long sermon (once you were done tallying the organ pipes or tracking the sun’s progress across the hymnal board). Those familiar wooden ribs are a bit of a time stamp.
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HOW TO DEAL WITH TRUMP'S SECOND COMING
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Arthur Boers
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For the last decade, I, like many, have tried to make sense of what’s going on across the border and have been dumbfounded by Christians gleefully signing on to MAGA. Lee Camp’s book Scandalous Witness, first published in 2020 during Trump One, is newly re-released and is more relevant than ever.
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WHAT IF THE TRUCKERS WIN?
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Michael DeMoor
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I know you don’t want to think about the pandemic. I don’t either. But a significant amount of our politics – from the re-election of Donald Trump to Alberta separatism – is downstream of covid, including the public perception and federal responses to it.
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THE CHURCH'S TRUST ISSUE
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Rudy Eikelboom
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Doctrinal beliefs should be examined to make sure we admit the things we just don’t know. Given that all denominations start from the same scripture yet arrive at many different positions, humility in beliefs might increase trust in the church.
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