If you ever wanted to know which side of the political spectrum the BC ‘Liberals’ fall, it’s pretty obvious by now it’s neither centre nor left. When a supposed centre-left political party hires a lobbyist whose previous tenure involved working as senior policy advisor and strategist to Stephen Harper and lobbying for Enbridge and Suncor,
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Christy, what are you thinking? BC Liberals hire Harper aide and Enbridge lobbyist Ken Boessenkool as chief of staff.
If you ever wanted to know which side of the political spectrum the BC ‘Liberals’ fall, it’s pretty obvious by now it’s neither centre nor left. When a supposed centre-left political party hires a lobbyist whose previous tenure involved working as senior policy advisor and strategist to Stephen Harper and lobbying
Continue readingfirst word, tree.: Pink Herrings: Ethical (Sp)Oil and Pride (in Pipelines)
“Make a hard Right-turn at the Town of Wedgepolitics and keep going Straight until you’ve reached the City of Bigotry and Political Strategy.” Directions for Harper’s recent wedge-issue of choice, driven to distract, that questions the validity of marriage licences granted to non-resident couples in Canada. This issue is too risky
Continue readingBigCityLib cleans up journalist’s mess. Confirms Brazilian did sign up to speak at pipeline hearings.
Go to BigCityLib’s place for the details on how a simple e-mail clarified at least part of a sloppily-research article from Postmedia, intended no doubt to raise doubts about the pipeline hearings and capitalize on the ‘foreign influence’ scam. Alison at Creekside comes up with another scenario involving the infamous Teneycke Snuffaluffagus
Continue readingWhy is Ethical Oil too terrified to confirm if it is funded by Enbridge or not? UPDATED with video.
"Don't ask me hard questions. I'm a student!" Wow. Just wow. Yesterday, I watched Power & Politics with Huffington Post’s Kathryn Marshall debating the Northern Gateway hearings with a representative from the Sierra Club. What was so amazing is that every time host Evan Solomon correctly asked if Enbridge was funding
Continue readingLeftist Jab: Enbridge Tells Joe Oliver To Shut Up
Pictured: Joe Oliver consulting the youth. The oil pipeline corporation Enbridge which has: averaged over 1 oil spill per week between 1999 and 2008; spilled 800,000 gallons of oil into Michigan’s Kalamazoo River; the potential of facing criminal charges for failing to properly maintain its Michigan pipeline; been accused by
Continue readingWhy is Ethical Oil so terrified of confirming if it is funded by Enbridge?
Wow. Just wow. Watched Power & Politics with Huffington Post’s Kathryn Marshall representing Ethical Oil debating with a representative from the Sierra Club foreign involvement in the Northern Gateway hearings. What was so amazing is that every time host Evan Solomon correctly asked if Enbridge was funding Ethical Oil, Marshall would loudly
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Poetic Justice! Enbridge reports leak from U.S. pipeline as Northern Gateway hearings begin. This is nothing new for Enbridge, the leak, that is. They happen all the time. From 1999 to 2010 Enbridge had 804 leaks, spilling more than 16,000 barrels of hydrocarbons into the environment per year. New
Continue readingEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: Attacks on Canadian public registered to participate in Enbridge Process are unacceptable
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 What began as a smear campaign against West Coast Environmental Law and other environmental groups has crossed a line with oil industry advocates EthicalOil.org and Ezra Levant (author of the book Ethical Oil), taking aim at the thousands of ordinary Canadians who have registered to express
Continue readingRadical environmentalists, shame on you! Didn’t you know the Northern Gateway will ‘fund social programs’?
Talk about shame. Pro-polluters and climate change deniers have none. Take one Joe Oliver, for example. This creep has the temerity to tell us that the Northern Gateway pipeline will be a progressive’s wet dream. “These are projects of enormous national significance – in terms of job creation and creating
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: It takes a radical to know a radical
Joe Oliver, Minister of Natural Resources, is apparently mad that his government’s plan to dump an oil pipeline through some of British Columbia’s pristine wilderness and have oil tankers come through to pick it up (and why should anyone be concerned about that, right? Exxon Valdez… cough) has been slowed
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Enbridge’s empty promises
The Michigan Messenger, Enbridge denies responsibility for oil spill “Despite public promises to compensate residents for losses associated with the summer oil spill, in Calhoun county court Enbridge is arguing that it is not legally liable for damages from the spill. “Last July a pipeline rupture on Enbridge’s 6B pipeline
Continue readingNext time some ‘Ethical Oil’ salesperson gives you the ‘foreign influence’ bunk on the pipeline hearings, mention Alison’s post on the subject at Creekside
I watched in mild horror ’Question Period’ yesterday. Horror, not because CTV is too cheap to broadcast the show in HD, but because of the nonsense delivered on behalf of Alberta’s ‘Ethical Oil’ lobby by Huffington Post’s Kathryn Marshall. Her spiel was more about trying to trap Eric Swanson of Dogwood Initiative with circuitous and
Continue readingNext time some ‘Ethical Oil’ salesperson gives you the ‘foreign influence’ bunk on the pipeline hearings, mention Alison’s post on the subject at Creekside
I watched in mild horror ‘Question Period’ yesterday. Horror, not because CTV is too cheap to broadcast the show in HD, but because of the nonsense delivered on behalf of Alberta’s ‘Ethical Oil’ lobby by Huffington Post’s Kathryn Marshall. Her spiel was more about trying to trap Eric Swanson of Dogwood Initiative
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Shoes, ships and sealing-wax, cabbages and kings
Global TV Noon News aired a report on the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline Sunday. It lasted 40-seconds while they allocated 11 minutes to a segment on cooking fish and five for a pet dog. Strange ‘news’ priorities but I guess they could have run a repeat of ET Canada or
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Pressure mounts in the Media, as Canadian Petroleum Producers bombard us with propaganda to forcefeed the Northern Gateway Pipeline and it’s associated Tanker traffic in the most dangerous and pristine water ways in the world. Across Canada, you are being told by the Press that the majority of British
Continue readingReally Ipsos-Reid, a poll commissioned by Alberta’s Enbridge on BCers’ opinions on Northern Gateway, published only in Postmedia? Really?
Canadian polling companies are taking a big hit lately and with good reason. One firm I thought would be above the fray is the juggernaut, Ipsos-Reid. Then I read about this iffy IR poll commissioned by Northern Gateway proponent Enbridge about British Columbian feelings toward the pipeline. Adding to the mire
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Shilling for dollars
Gordon Hoekstra and the Vancouver Sun present another episode in the ongoing series, Shilling for Corporate Canada: Enbridge is a Canadian success story: “Patrick Daniel, its president and CEO… earned $8 million in 2010 in salary, bonuses, stock options and other compensation, … self-proclaimed environmentalist, he proudly boasts of owning
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Vancouver Sun practices conscious deceit
Elmer Derrick and Enbridge VP Janet Holder IS IT TRUE ELMER DERRICK IS “THE” GITXSAN HEREDITARY CHIEF? Commentary by Merv Ritchie, Terrace Daily, Dec. 11, 2011 This is the claim recently made in a commentary Elmer Derrick submitted and had published in the Vancouver Sun, “Elmer Derrick is the hereditary
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: More Enbridge mischief exposed
From: guujaaw [mailto:guujaaw@haidanation.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 2:46 PM Subject: Enbridge December 20, 2011 Enbridge Northern Gateway Project Joint Review Panel 444 7th Avenue S.W. Calgary, Alberta T2P 0X8 Attention: Secretary to the Joint Review Panel Re: statement contained in Volume 5A: Aboriginal Engagement, Appendix D: National and Regional
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