Read this Sept. 11 story from The Vancouver Sun, confirming what The Common Sense Canadian has been predicting for years: massive rate hikes for BC Hydro customers due to the failed BC Liberal energy policy. Homeowners, small businesses and industrial users are facing a staggering 26.4-per-cent electricity rate increase from 2014 to 2016, according
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The Common Sense Canadian: Union leaders support BC Liberal LNG program
Read this Sept. 9 story fromt he Canadian Press on the decision made by several prominent BC union leaders to work with the BC Liberal Government on developing a liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry. The Common Sense Canadian has written a great deal about the flawed economics of LNG. VICTORIA – Some
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Enbridge Kalamazoo spill still not cleaned up – 3 years later
The burst pipeline that caused Enbridge’s 2010 Michigan spill Read this Sept. 6 story from CBC on the lingering mess from Enbridge’s 3-year-old spill of 4 million barrels of diluted bitumen into Michigan’s Kalamazoo River. Three years after an Enbridge pipeline ruptured and spilled 3.3 million litres of oil into
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Fraser Institute rakes in foreign funding
Read this Aug. 30 story from The Vancouver Observer on the $4.3 million in foreign funding accepted since 2000 by BC’s right-wing think tank, The Fraser Institute. Unlike environmental groups, who have been attacked for accepting US donations, the Fraser Institute has been immune to such scrutiny. The Fraser Institute, Canada’s leading right-wing
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Proposed gas pipeline threatens vital Khutzeymateen Grizzly sanctuary
photo: Ian McAllister/Pacific Wild Read this Sept. 7 Vancouver Sun story on the risks to critical bear habitat from a proposed gas pipeline to future LNG terminals in Prince Rupert. The company proposing to build a liquefied natural gas pipeline through a grizzly bear sanctuary near Prince Rupert has already
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: First Nations fire back at Taseko CEO’s insults
Xeni Gwetin Chief Roger William at a Vancouver court case in 2011 Read this Sept. 6 rebuttal in the Vancouver Sun by Tsilqot’in National Government Chair Joe Alphonse to an earlier op-ed by Taseko Mines’ CEO Russ Hallbauer which dismissed First Nations’ concerns about his proposed “New Prosperity Mine”. A
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Stephen Hume on Grizzly trophy hunt
“Cheeky” the bear was killed by NHL player Clayton Stoner (from film “Bear Witness”) Read this sharp Stephen Hume polemic from the Aug. 5 Vancouver Sun against BC’s controversial grizzly bear trophy hunt – which has become a source of intense media scrutiny this week following the release of a
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Stand Up for Science Rally – Vancouver (Sept. 16, 2013)
Fed up with the erosion of science in Canada? Want our government to support science in the public interest? Think that decisions should be based on evidence and facts instead of ideology? Join us on September 16th to Stand up for Science! Feat. Dr. David Suzuki, Alexandra Morton, Fin Donnelly,
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