It's pretty easy to say that, when you don't understand the connections between that economic opportunity, and your family

Is it just me, or is anyone else confused about where the BC Liberal government stands on job creation, environmental issues, and how those things impact BC families and jobs.

Three weeks ago Christy Clark spoke to the Canada West Foundation, and she said to them:

"It is easy for people to be against things. Easy for people to say: 'You know, we should just cut down fewer trees in B.C. We should just have fewer mines. Maybe we shouldn't have all this oil and gas development .... Maybe we shouldn't be disturbing the Earth.' "It's pretty easy to say that when you don't understand the connections between that economic opportunity and your family."

If that's the case, then why is Rich Coleman, the Minister responsible for Mines and Energy, making comments about the Prosperity Mine project, that totally goes against what Premier Clark is saying??  He has recently been quoted saying:

"Right now I'm not even having a conversation about Prosperity,"

Coleman faults the proponent of the Prosperity project, Taseko Mines

"I think, quite frankly, the proponent here didn't do a great job ... to be honest with you."

And here's the one that I find most damning:

"When I became the minister I made a point of saying I'm not going to put the Tsilhqot'in into a box where they're going to have to make decisions,"

How on earth is anything going to get accomplished in moving forward with job creating projects if someone doesn't make a decision to proceed on this, or any other project? 

It seems pretty straight forward that radical environmentalist will never come to a place where they will say YES, let's go ahead with this.

It seems as well that First Nations groups and organizations, more times than not, do not wish to see the development of job creating projects go ahead.  Why this is??? ... especially when they can provide good well paying jobs, training, and eduction for their people.

Good jobs do not have to be at the expense of our environment -- they should never be.  We do not however have to compromise the environment to have a health economy -- and a strong tax base -- to support the health, education, and other services we desire.

That said, maybe Christy Clark should have a talk to Rich Coleman, the man she selected and chose to be the Minister responsible for Mines and Energy, and see if the are both reading from the same policy book.

I'm Alan Forseth in Kamloops ... and those are the thoughts of one conservative.