British Columbia Coast

And so we went back.

We went back because I actually, I go to BC once a year, but because I've been going once a year to Victoria on Vancouver Island since 2012, and in like 2020, I started a gallery and This little group of amazing Canadian West Coast artists were all applying.

So I was showing their work, selling their work.

And I ended up making a ton of friends through that.

The voice of Aura, high, a little in the vapes, haps all along the disc, all the more so that it carries among the best songs that have been written so far, which evolve between a haunted blues, a gothic folk and high-pitched psychedelic ballads, between dreams and nightmares like the landscapes that gave birth to them.

Aura Cogan describes Namaimo, the British Columbia village on the Canadian West Coast, in which she set up her studio between mountains and lakes, as another Twin Peaks, the village created by David Lynch for his famous TV series, then his film.

Lynch, who, when he signed records, published them precisely on this same label, Sacred Bones.

As the Irish Hilary Woods, a loyal fan of the New York label, enters the studio in 2025 to record his fifth album, it is Dean Hurley, the sound engineer and artistic director of David Lynch, who accompanies him.

The economically disastrous oil and gas production cap has been scrapped.

Pacific Link, a new million-barrel-a-day oil pipeline to the BC West Coast, has been fast-tracked as a project of national interest by the federal government.

It is on track to have its permitting completed by September 2027, so shovels can be in the ground soon after.

We have also seen massive new investments by the federal government in Alberta in everything from military infrastructure and manufacturing to high-speed rail, affordable housing, and so much more.

So yeah, right before the world was shutting down.

Yeah, we were headed for the Canadian West Coast tour when things got shut down, the tour got canceled.

Oh my gosh.

But I feel like that just, that record never got its due.

And this is where we begin with a series of Vancouver punk bands.

Hardcore punk was big on the Canadian West Coast, and Jerry Hanna was a big part of it.

He played bass for the Subhumans, a group formed in 1978.

He went by the punk name Useless.

We last met briefly in Dublin and talked a little bit about the Vancouver program for LocWorld.

And now that it's out and solidified and we're counting the days to make it to the Canadian West Coast, I thought it would be a good time to catch up with you and talk about the upcoming Look World a little bit.

Let's dive right in.

I'm not going to do a big introduction of you because everybody knows you.

So what you see is investors, whether it's Korea or private investors or other countries, what you see is them seeing a very... difficult situation now in terms of supply because of the restraints on the Qatari supplies, particularly difficult situation now.

But once you get beyond that, given all of the other LNG facilities that are being built, both on the US Gulf Coast, on the Canadian West Coast, elsewhere in the world, once you get beyond that, you see a significant oversupply.

with the declining price.

So with Koreans, I think, and everybody, thinking about Alaska's going through is, okay, I understand the economics today.

British Columbia's geographic advantage provides shorter shipping routes to major importing nations such as Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China compared with LNG exporter from the US Gulf Coast.

Canada's West Coast location, combined with vast Montney Formation gas resources, gives Canadian LNG developers a compelling value proposition in the Asia-Pacific region.

In September twenty twenty-six, Canada reinforced its commitment to Asia.

During the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Energy Ministers meeting, Canadian representatives met with counterparts from China, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and the Philippines to advance discussions on energy trade, investment, and long-term cooperation.

Analysts expect these latest international developments to influence future midstream decisions throughout Canada.

As overseas demand grows, investment in LNG-related infrastructure is likely to increase, particularly in British Columbia, where several major projects are either under construction or advancing through the regulatory process.

According to Natural Resources Canada, the federal agency overseeing the country's natural resource sector, LNG projects currently under development along Canada's West Coast represent more than one hundred billion in potential capital investment.

At the same time, industry stakeholders recognize that prolonged trade tensions could create challenges for cross-border energy infrastructure development.