ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes the key takeaways from the book’s case study on liquefied natural gas development in British Columbia. It also reflects on the conditions necessary to alter the dependency mindset that dominates Canadian energy policymaking. The case study illustrates the emergence of a progressive extractivism bloc in Canada. The most alarming aspect of the bloc’s public narratives is their ideological enclosure, which portrays dependence on unconventional fossil fuels as an inevitable future of the global economy. To resist progressive extractivism, the book proposes the formation of an Indigenous–environmental–progressive coalition that prioritizes the disclosure of extractivism’s inherent linkage with settler colonialism.
