ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes how media coverage of the Pacific NorthWest liquefied natural gas project was influenced by competing narratives from the project’s proponents and opponents. Compared to public and commercial media, which provided limited coverage of the internal contradictions of transpacific energy trade, independent media made a crucial contribution to broader public debates regarding the inherent economic risks of liquefied natural gas and the urgency of changing Canada’s resource-driven economic development. Accordingly, the chapter confirms the importance of independent media in mediating climate activism as found in previous research.
