The Carbon Footprint --- HST --- and the BC Liberals

There are a couple of interesting stories in the news today, that show how this current BC Liberal government seems able to have a foot in both sides of an issue.

While claiming they want factual unbiased information out on the HST, this didn't strop them from having the whole HST debacle benefit party friends as a story in today's Globe and Mail indicates:

The B.C. government office running the province’s pro-HST campaign secretly doled out contracts to two Liberal-connected companies and a former aide to the minister who introduced the tax, records show.  The contracts, according to documents obtained by The Globe and Mail via a freedom-of-information request, had paid out more than $250,000 as of June 1. That included compensating the ex-aide, Marc Andrew, to do what he called “purely logistical” work for the government panel that provided an independent analysis of the harmonized sales tax. 


See full story here -- click HERE

Meantime Environment Minister, and Kamloops North Thompson MLA, Terry Lake seems to be fine with lower mainland communities burning their garbage now instead of trucking it to landfill in the Cache Creek area.  

Terry Lake says ... "the province can’t ban waste-to-energy projects if they are done to European standards. It’s up to Metro Vancouver to make those decisions ... "  (see full STORY)
 

I find it interesting to note however that the provincial government has recently made it uncomfortable for several real job and economy drivers to move forward -- including the Prosperity Mine.  

Hmmm -- I wonder how burning fits in with reducing the carbon footprint?

Baldrey says, "... I suspect Cummins is more in tune with public opinion ..."

It seems like more and more people are coming to realize, the commons sense ideas of the BC Conservative Party are indeed in tune with many British Columbian's. 

In the past year I do not recall much in the way a positive comments in the news, not that they should be crowing about any political party -- fair comment however would be nice.

That's why I was pleased to see the story written in today's edition of Surrey Now, by Keith Baldrey, especially this comment he made, "But I suspect Cummins is more in tune with public opinion than the mayors or the two "established" political parties.

Click HERE to read the full story