{"id":82059,"date":"2019-01-28T07:29:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T08:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resourcework2.devstudio.work\/?p=82059"},"modified":"2024-11-17T15:09:46","modified_gmt":"2024-11-17T15:09:46","slug":"cgl-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resourcework2.devstudio.work\/?p=82059","title":{"rendered":"New process, new soapbox: Inside the strategy of thwarting nation-building energy investment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On November 22, 2018&nbsp;anti-oil and gas activist&nbsp;Mike Sawyer, speaking&nbsp;via live stream and in person&nbsp;at a Sierra Club function in Vancouver, made a confession:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-plain has-medium-font-size is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe real reason I\u2019m doing it is, to put it bluntly, is rage. I\u2019m so pissed off at what the governments and the corporations have done to undermine our democratic decision making that I\u2019m really angry about it. I know I don\u2019t show it;&nbsp;I am.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>In July 2018,&nbsp;Mr.&nbsp;Sawyer, a well known&nbsp;Smithers&nbsp;resident and activist,&nbsp;made an application to the National Energy Board&nbsp;(NEB)&nbsp;requesting they&nbsp;review the regulatory jurisdiction concerning the Coastal Gas Link Pipeline(CGLP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On&nbsp;the face of it,&nbsp;Mr. Sawyer argues the pipeline should be reviewed and regulated by the NEB as opposed to the provincial regulators who have already&nbsp;reviewed and&nbsp;permitted the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He reasons that his application is a public interest question.&nbsp;But is it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his&nbsp;official&nbsp;NEB&nbsp;application&nbsp;and subsequent&nbsp;filings Mr. Sawyer&nbsp;and his legal counsel maintain:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe exclusive focus of the application is whether the Project is in federal jurisdiction.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And argues:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHis opinions about other issues are not relevant to the application.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But is that really the case?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to Mr. Sawyer\u2019s own words it now appears his opinions are not only relevant, they constitute a primary driver for his action of filing&nbsp;the&nbsp;NEB application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This calls into question whether his intention is&nbsp;truly motivated by his regard for public&nbsp;interest or&nbsp;if it\u2019s driven by&nbsp;his own private interest to frustrate&nbsp;natural resource development in Canada.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You see,&nbsp;Mr. Sawyer has done this before.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He\u2019s posed the jurisdictional question on a similar project and won. The effect of his past endeavor would have seen provincial permits voided and an entirely new&nbsp;project review process undertaken. The project proponent cancelled their project and took their investment capital elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And,&nbsp;in his previous project challenge,&nbsp;it is worth noting that Sierra Club and others backed him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/resourcework2.devstudio.work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/post-image-36-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-85920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/resourcework2.devstudio.work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/post-image-36-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/resourcework2.devstudio.work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/post-image-36-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/resourcework2.devstudio.work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/post-image-36-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/resourcework2.devstudio.work\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/post-image-36-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sierra has been party to utilizing legal tactics in the past in order to stall or stop natural resource projects. The now infamous 2008 Rockefeller Brothers Fund Tar Sands Campaign strategy laid out&nbsp;the use of&nbsp;legal&nbsp;tactics&nbsp;to pursue&nbsp;objectives aimed at raising project costs, limiting or stopping pipelines, and influencing decision makers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of their tools to achieve this is to&nbsp;hack&nbsp;our regulatory and legal systems&nbsp;through technicalities.&nbsp;Sierra was a party to that sophisticated anti-development strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, that may seem irrelevant but consider this: Having done this before Mr. Sawyer would understand that he could have posed his most recent jurisdictional question a long time ago; maybe even participated in the provincial reviews to air his concerns.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But he didn\u2019t. He waited until the provincial processes were complete, and a project investment decision was imminent, to launch his action.&nbsp;Once again Sierra is with him.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Throughout the course of his&nbsp;recent&nbsp;Sierra Club speech, Mr. Sawyer expressed the result he&nbsp;wishes to derive from his application, calling it his \u201cendgame\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-plain has-medium-font-size is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cSo the endgame is\u2026 we will see it going to a federal review.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf we get the opportunity to have a second kick at the can in terms of whether LNG Canada and Coastal GasLink are truly in the public interest\u2026 everyone who is concerned about any one of the issues\u2026 will have an opportunity to have their say. And we could influence, if we are lucky, the direction that public policy is taking\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>In other words, a new process means a new soapbox for powerful\u00a0private interest\u00a0anti-development agitators to frustrate the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Sawyer went into elaborate&nbsp;explanations behind his anti-resource ideologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to&nbsp;sharing his \u201creal reason\u201d, and in the course of his speech,&nbsp;Mr. Sawyer laid out a number of unsubstantiated assertions&nbsp;that&nbsp;shed light on&nbsp;his&nbsp;personal&nbsp;bias and&nbsp;beliefs&nbsp;regarding natural&nbsp;gas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For someone who purported, in his&nbsp;official&nbsp;filings&nbsp;to the NEB,&nbsp;that his opinions are not relevant to&nbsp;his&nbsp;application,he spoke at length&nbsp;that&nbsp;his ideology and subjective opinions,&nbsp;some&nbsp;bordering on conspiracy theory, are driving him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He made a fact-less assertion that industry and government&nbsp;have somehow enacted a particular narrative on natural gas:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-plain has-medium-font-size is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201c\u2026 &nbsp;there\u2019s&nbsp;this&nbsp;notion that gas industry and governments have perpetrated for at least the last 50\/60 years that natural gas is an environmentally friendly bridging fuel to some mythical future energy source; and that\u2019s a lie&#8230; I&nbsp;like to call it&nbsp;\u2018The Big Lie\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Without evidence,&nbsp;he&nbsp;charges&nbsp;there was&nbsp;deliberate&nbsp;politicization of&nbsp;the provincial&nbsp;regulatory and review processes:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-plain has-medium-font-size is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThey put it through the BC Environmental Assessment office and they put it through the BC Oil and Gas Commission and,&nbsp;not surprisingly,&nbsp;those were approved. Because it was in the context of the previous government politically heavily invested in LNG and it comes as no surprise that a closed door approach would result in approval\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Sawyer asserts unsupported cause and effect relationships:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-plain has-medium-font-size is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201c\u2026if&nbsp;we talk about the impacts on our democracy because of the heavy,&nbsp;heavy,&nbsp;influence the oil and gas industry has\u2026 and I\u2019ll guarantee\u2026 I\u2019m sure there are some people in here who are quite influential in your own community, but I doubt there is anyone here, unless there is a plant from the oil and gas industry, who could phone up to the Premier\u2019s office and get straight through to a Minister or better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can\u2019t do it, but&nbsp;they&nbsp;can. And they can because they donate so much money that it has a big impact on our democracy. That is one of the impacts: a dysfunctional democracy&nbsp;is one of the impacts of natural gas.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>In response to questions following his speech Mr. Sawyer continued&nbsp;to express hints of his political ideology:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-plain has-medium-font-size is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cI think we are looking at a failed experiment with capitalism. I think we are morphing into a very fascist type of world-view\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The Sierra Club host&nbsp;acknowledged Mr. Sawyer as \u201cone man from Smithers who has launched a jurisdictional challenge to&nbsp;get in the way&nbsp;of that pipeline\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They also thanked Mr. Sawyer \u201cfor his rage \u2026and channeling that rage into&nbsp;a legal wrench that really gives us a chance to delay\u2026\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And they noted:&nbsp;\u201cSierra Club BC applied to intervene on his behalf,&nbsp;as has Wilderness Committee\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Any reasonable person would look at the massive discrepancies between Mr. Sawyer\u2019s legal filings and his public speech and conclude he is abusing public institutions for private interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Mr. Sawyer is within his right to pursue the NEB application to review jurisdiction of the CGLP he should be honest about his intentions and desired&nbsp;\u201cendgame\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rest of us deserve to ask: When is it time to draw the line on&nbsp;frivolous aggravation of regulatory and legal processes&nbsp;that&nbsp;serve to&nbsp;forward personal ideology?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>#TheNorthMatters is a grassroots citizen organization building strength in northern communities by aligning and creating opportunities for its residents.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Groups hacking Canada\u2019s regulatory system to stop projects through technicalities find a rage-fuelled ally to help them throw a wrench in the works. 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