A new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy alternatives highlights the Governments gross overstatements when it comes to LNG job creation.
Premier Clark, while campaigning back in the 2013 provincial elections promised that an LNG industry would create 100,000 BC jobs.
However, Senior economist Marc Lee says that number is way off:
“There is not a whole lot of credibility for those numbers, it was really just an exercise in padding and exaggerating at every point along the way to come up with a really large number that sounded good on TV.”
Lee says more realistic figures for the industry sit between 4,500 during construction, and between 1,000 to 1,500 permanent positions after that.