Victoria Times Colonist scribe Jack Knox has it right. It’s not eco-hippies who will stop Harper’s Northern Gateway pipeline, it’s the heart of middle-class Canada who will do that job. The panel reviewing Enbridge’s proposal to build a 1,150-kilometre pipeline from Alberta to a terminal at Kitimat will spend until
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Environmental Law Alert Blog: First Nations and BC Mayors stand together against threat of oil tankers and pipelines
Tuesday, December 18, 2012 In December 2010, representatives of sixty-one Indigenous nations came together in an historic alliance to protect the Fraser watershed and our coastal waters from the threat of oil spills.The result was the Save the Fraser Declaration, which bans tar sands projects, like the Enbridge pipeline and
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Enbridge Public Hearings Coming to Victoria. Public Told to Bugger Off Down the Road.
There won’t be any public at the Enbridge public hearings when they reach Victoria in January. The hearings will be closed to the public. The hearing room will admit only registered speakers, one guest per, the media and the apparently terrified Joint Review Panel members. Spectators will not be allowed
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Nothing can go wrong, nerthkt can go rong…
One of Murphy’s Laws: “If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which something can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop. Corollary: It will be impossible to fix the fifth fault, without breaking the fix on one or more of
Continue readingCanadian Progressive: Harper Conservatives and Big Oil turning Canada into a “petro-state”
by The Polaris Institute | December 4, 2012: A new report entitled “Big Oil’s Oily Grasp – The making of Canada as a Petro-State and how oil money is corrupting Canadian politics” released today by the Ottawa-based Polaris Institute found that six main oil industry players, including Enbridge and TransCanada, met
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Clear messaging
As Enbridge explains, the Mokena Terminal had a “Line Release.”
Nov 23 (Reuters) – About 900 barrels of crude oil leaked from an Enbridge Inc pipeline near Chicago late on Wednesday before the line was isolated, federal and state officials said.
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The Disaffected Lib: Two Near Misses in Two Days
Two shipping near misses off Kitimat in two days. Thursday the deep sea freighter, Tern Arrow, lost engine power and wound up drifting for three hours in Laredo Sound south of Kitimat. You won’t see this in any Enbridge ads but …
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: And Another Leak For Enbridge!
Nov 23 (Reuters) – About 900 barrels of crude oil leaked from an Enbridge Inc pipeline near Chicago late on Wednesday before the line was isolated, federal and state officials said.
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Coastal safety
Second B.C. shipping incident in two days, Vancouver Sun, Nov. 23/12
“Dan Bate, spokesman for the Canadian Coast Guard, said Friday that the deep-sea cargo ship, Tern Arrow, lost engine power in heavy seas and 40-knot winds near Laredo Sound south of K…
CuriosityCat: Enbridge, the Storyteller & The Breaking of the Social Contract
Enbridge’s Al Monaco – The StorytellerJust read Nathan Vanderklippe’s interview with Al Monaco, CEO of Enbridge Inc., in Saturday’s Globe & Mail. Extracts from the interview:Al Monaco pauses, for a moment, to apologize.”Do you mind,” he says, “if I…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Adding Insult to Injury – Northern Gateway Style
It seems Harper isn’t finished working over British Columbia in preparation for forcing through the Northern Gateway bitumen pipeline-supertanker venture.He’s gutted our fisheries regulations, ditto for our marine ecosystem protections. He’s move…
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Money speaks louder than words
According to a March 2012 Canadian Press report,
“British Columbia and five other provinces are teaming up to sue Canadian tobacco firms for health-care costs.
“B.C., New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Prince Edward Island are ret…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Even if you have seen this before, it still will make you smile.
This really is special. Enjoy.
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: The Real Threat is in Harper’s Gutting the Legal and Regulatory Framework for Oil and Gas
Kevin Logan- Cowichan Conversations Contributor Here is another Post from Cowichan Conversations Contributor Kevin Logan. Kevin Logan’s career has been diverse, ranging from small business to NGOs through finance and government. He served as a ministerial assistant to numerous ministers and a premier in the former BC NDP Administration. Kevin
Continue reading350 or bust: Canadians Answer The Call To Defend Our Coast While Climate Silence Reigns South of Border
It was a cool rainy day in Victoria, British Columbia yesterday, but that didn’t stop thousands of people from coming out to the B.C. Legislature to show both the provincial and the federal governments that they are opposed to the two pipelines that industry and governments want to build to
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Here Is A Brilliant Examination of Harper’s Crumbling Control of Caucus
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes – Political Blogger Those of us who fall into the news/political junkie slot scan the media in its many variations. Searching for relevance can be an exhausting effort but every once in awhile a refreshing, independent and insightful source appears and is relished. The following is such a
Continue reading350 or bust: Can’t Make It To Victoria To Defend Our Coast? Be Part of A “Flash Phone Mob”
Hundreds, if not thousands, of Canadians are going to be gathering in Victoria, B.C. today to take a stand against the Northern Gateway Pipeline that Enbridge, and our current federal government, is intent on building through the pristine Great Bear Rainforest to the northern B.C. coast. One of my daughters
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: North Cowichan Council Support Increased Super Tanker Traffic
Richard Hughes Political Blogger Hard to believe but North Cowichan Council turned down a motion objecting to the threat faced from increased oil and bitumen carrying tanker traffic along our coastlines. What are these people thinking? Moved by Kate Marsh, she had one other Councillor support her effort but it
Continue reading350 or bust: It’s Time To Get Real About The Risks Of Dirty Energy
Tomorrow is the day that the largest tar sands protest in Canadian history is to take place, in Victoria, British Columbia, to defend our coast from the dangers of Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Pipeline. I wish I could be there but I can’t. In honour of all those taking the time
Continue readingThe Scott Ross: Most BCers Support Northern Gateway Pipeline
It shouldn’t come as a surprise to British Columbians that they support an oil pipeline that endangers ecologically sensitive terrain, after all they continue to financially support every other pipeline that does the exact same thing. Opinion polls may consistently show that a majority of BCers oppose Enbridge’s Northern Gateway
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