‘Ethereal carbon’: B.C. government presents a fossil fuel as ‘clean’
Despite worldwide concern about the consequences of “fracking”, the British Columbia (B.C.) government is presenting its proposed Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) industry as both an economic benefit to the Canadian province and a source of ‘clean’ fossil fuel. Writing in the journal Environmental Communication , Sibo Chen and Associate Professor Shane Gunster from Simon Fraser University, analyze text and images from the regional government’s ‘LNG in BC’ website – the main source of public