This is Update #7 of the Red Deer River Oil Spill… Plains Midstream Canada continues to blog its cleanup efforts surrounding the Rangeland Pipeline System failure near Sundre, Alberta. [ Web Updates ] Red Deer River oil spill cleanup activities were suspended because of heavy rain, high winds and lightning. [ Article
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somecanuckchick dot com: The Red Deer River Oil Spill — Update #6
This is Update #6 of the Red Deer River Oil Spill… Plains Midstream Canada continues to blog its cleanup efforts surrounding the Rangeland Pipeline System failure near Sundre, Alberta. [ Web Updates ] Plains Midstream Canada says water quality samples have almost all been normal. [ Article ] Plains Midstream Canada says
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: The Red Deer River Oil Spill — Update #5
This is Update #5 of the Red Deer River Oil Spill… Plains Midstream Canada still continues to blog its cleanup efforts surrounding the Rangeland Pipeline System failure near Sundre, Alberta. [ Web Updates ] Plains Midstream Canada says most of the Red Deer River oil spill has been been contained. [ Article
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: The Red Deer River Oil Spill — Update #4
This is Update #4 of the Red Deer River Oil Spill… Gord and Bonnie Johnston have abandoned their 23-hectare rural property after it was soaked with oil last week, following the Rangeland Pipeline System failure. [ Article ] Bruce Beattie, the Reeve of Mountain View County, one of the affected communities,
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: The Red Deer River Oil Spill — Update #3
This is Update #3 of the Red Deer River Oil Spill… With support from the Sundre Petroleum Operators Group and Red Deer County, Plains Midstream Canada continues to communicate with local landowners. [ Article ] An information centre has been established at the James River Community Hall. Plains Midstream Canada, Sundre
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: The Red Deer River Oil Spill — Update #2
This is Update #2 of the Red Deer River Oil Spill… Plains Midstream Canada has shut down 10 kilometres of the Rangeland Pipeline System. [ Article ] Plains Midstream Canada says, “The release is contained within the two booms on the Gleniffer Reservoir.” [ PDF ] Plains Midstream Canada is now blogging
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: The Red Deer River Oil Spill — Update #1
This is Update #1 of the Red Deer River Oil Spill… Tracey McCrimmon, executive director of the Sundre Petroleum Operators Group, a community group that works with the industry, said people phoned in reports Thursday night of smelling rotten eggs. Plains Midstream Canada estimates 1,000 to 3,000 barrels of oil
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: Move along, nothing to see here!
Plains Midstream Canada is involved in another oil spill in the province of Alberta. Plains Midstream Canada is the same company that saw a 28,000-barrel leak last year from the Rainbow Pipeline. [See Required Reading below.] An estimated 1,000 to 3,000 barrels of leaked oil, stretches along the Red Deer
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: Facts versus Fodder
FACT: “We [he and wife Arlene] made a pact. I’m doing this interim job and that’s the job I’m doing.” — Bob Rae FACT: “I also have no qualms about saying this is a limited term that I’ve accepted and I look forward to working within that term.” — Bob
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: It’s the tar sands, stupid!
What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; Act II, Scene ii, Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare The Athabasca tar sands have always been, are now, and will always be known as… the Athabasca tar sands. Why? Because the tar
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: Mainstream Media + [UN]Ethical Oil = Minimal Oil Spill(s) Coverage
Déjà vu! Around this time, last year, Mainstream Media was providing minimal coverage of the Rainbow Pipeline leak. Fast-forward 1 year and yet another oil spill — an oil spill that apparently went undetected for days. And once again Mainstream Media is providing minimal coverage — in fact, there are more
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: Robocon Scandal — UPDATE 2
So, the IP address Pierre Poutine used also accessed Andrew Prescott’s Racknine account. But, there’s no smoking gun? And now, Elections Canada is talking about regulating — not banning — robocalls made during an election. Because regulating them makes it all better… Other posts on the Robocon Scandal: 5 Robocon Facts
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: Out of the mouths of babes!
A very enlightened young lady, indeed!
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: Unanswered Questions: When did Question Period become Non-Answer Period?
I remember a time, not so long ago, when questions asked in the House of Commons — during Question Period — received answers. You remember, right? I didn’t just imagine it, did I? Q. When did Question Period become Non-Answer Period? A. On February 6, 2006 when Stephen Harper and
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: New coins costing Canadians a lot of cash…
Last month, the Royal Canadian Mint put into circulation a new generation of loonies and toonies. The Royal Canadian Mint, however, did not give Canadian cities official notice of when the new coins would be distributed. Canada’s new loonies and toonies are costing Canadian cities, as well as retailers and
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: Rainbow Pipeline Leak — 1 Year Later…
Did you know that Plains Midstream Canada continues to clean up the Rainbow Pipeline Leak that occurred on April 29, 2011? The largest Alberta pipeline discharge in 36 years has never been classified as «100% remediated» by the Energy Resources Conservation Board, the provincial energy regulator. 1 year later… Haven’t
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: Backwards, Not Forwards
In October 2003, the Canadian Alliance (under Stephen Harper) and the Progressive Conservative Party (under Peter MacKay) announced that their respective parties would merge to form a new party — the Conservative Party of Canada. 8.5 years later and anything remotely progressive has ceased to exist in the Conservative Party
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: Canadians are penniless!
Canadians are penniless. Love the penny. Hate the penny. Regardless of your feelings on the penny… sure, the penny’s days were numbered, but now that the penny is on its way out, I have a few questions and comments. What of caSh only businesses? What of consumers? And, what of
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: Vive la différence!
The Harper government says, “Thomas Mulcair is an opportunist whose tax agenda, blind ambition and divisive personality would put Canadian families and their jobs at risk.” Really? I say, “Stephen Harper is an opportunist whose tax agenda, blind ambition and divisive personality would put Canadian families and their jobs at
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: Happy Contempt of Parliament Day!
On March 25, 2011, the House of Commons passed a motion of non-confidence by a vote of 156 to 145. And with that, Stephen Harper and his Conservative Cabinet were found to be in contempt of parliament — an unprecedented finding in Canadian and Commonwealth parliamentary history. How to celebrate:
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