Joe Oliver probably knows nothing about the courage of people like Canadian Forces hero Trevor Greene. The Minister for Oil and Energy Companies was born to a wealthy Montreal family. After McGill University, he attended Harvard Business, the world’s most expensive vocational school, where the sticker price for an MBA
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Left Over: Crusty Does Alberta…
B.C. premier heads to Alberta for pipeline talks Christy Clark and Alison Redford to discuss Northern Gateway concerns CBC online, Saturday Sep[t. 29, 2012 I cannot believe how delusional this woman truly is..why would she go to Alberta to discuss this issue when she knows that the majority
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Naomi Klein Speaks Out About The Kinder Morgan Pipeline To Vancouver
Here is a video taken over the Labour Day Weekend in North Vancouver. Naomi Klein may be best known for her book, ‘The Shock Doctrine.’ Well the good news is that she has joined the fight against reckless pipeline construction and increased tanker traffic through the port of Vancouver.
Continue readingearthgauge: Earthgauge Radio September 13, 2012: From the frontlines of the Northern Gateway pipeline struggle
Download: earthgauge-podcast-sept13-2012-northerngateway.mp3 I’m excited to be back at CKCU to kick off the second season of Earthgauge Radio! On this the September 13 edition of the program, we hear a couple of interviews live from the frontlines of the Northern Gateway pipeline struggle in B.C. On the show today: Art Sterritt –
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Enbridge Pipeline: Is Justin (The Pot) Trudeau calling Stephen (The Kettle) Harper black?
The Liberal Party leadership race is on, and one of the many issues the candidates will have to address is the policy they believe the Liberal Party of Canada should adopt towards the exporting of oil sands oil through pipelines and tankers. Justin Trudeau is reported as saying he does
Continue readingCanadian Progressive: Massive Peaceful Tar Sands Protest Before B.C. Provincial Legislature Planned For October 22
Over 80 influential leaders from the business, First Nations, environmental, labour, academic, medical and artistic communities across Canada today announced an upcoming mass sit-in in front of the provincial legislature in Victoria, British Columbia on October 22. The sit-in will oppose tar sands pipelines and tankers and the threats they
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Election Issues Will Focus On Enbridge and Fracking!
The polls tell us that the BC NDP will form the next government unless a political earthquake shakes up the political environment between now and the scheduled May 2013 election. Energy issues dominate much of the political stage these days. Focus will be on the how the competing parties position themselves especially regarding
Continue readingearthgauge: Earthgauge Radio kicks off season 2 tomorrow morning on CKCU!
Tune in to CKCU FM 93.1 tomorrow morning from 7:00-8:00 AM for the launch of the second season of Earthgauge Radio! On tomorrow’s show, I’ll be bringing you two interviews from the frontlines of what is shaping up to be one of the defining environmental struggles in recent Canadian history:
Continue readingearthgauge: Pro-development B.C. community says no to Northern Gateway
In Public Opinion Research conducted by the District of Fort St. James 198 respondents indicated a significant majority (86%) opposed the Northern Gateway pipeline proposal. The following letter was put on the Joint Review Panel registry last Friday, and spells out the enormous difficulty industry and the Harper government face
Continue readingLeft Over: Substance or Celeb?
In HuffPost Canada today, a discussion of JT possibly running (yet another one) complete with treacly compliments from our Libera and Con controlled Press… that makes Justin Trudeau sound more celeb than wise politico…which makes lots of sense… Justin Trudeau Leadership Bid: Warren Kinsella Says He’s Running Ah, the Press,
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: An Eye Opening Week in Wet’ suwet’ en Territory
Dorothy Field has recently spent a week in Wet’suwet’en territory in northwestern BC in efforts to help the Unis’tot’en (the Big Frog clan) and Lhe Lin Liyin (the Guardians who are in the path and now facing the impacts of the “Pacific Trails’pipeline. She has kindly contributed her story to
Continue readingCanadian Progressive: Canada Politics News Roundup For Monday, August 27, 2012
The highlight of our Canada politics news roundup today is a piece of news that highlights the burgeoning culture of entitlement by public figures. RCMP Commissioner, Bob Paulson, used eight on-duty Mounties in a ceremonial role at his recent wedding here in Ottawa. RCMP commissioner apologizes for use of constables
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: A Free e-book You Won’t Take to the Beach
Think you know what you need to know about Enbridge, the pipeline giant behind the Northern Gateway project? Chances are, you don’t. ONEarth.org has a three part feature on Enbridge and the Kalamazoo River bitumen catastrophe that you might find interesting. You can even get it free in e-book format.
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Why Bitumen Supertankers Are Far Too Risky for BC’s Coast
The Globe & Mail has published a 7-screen graphic detailing the northern BC coast Enbridge/Harper want to expose to supertanker catastrophe. From pointing out that the Hecate Strait is considered the fourth most dangerous for navigation in the world to the proven perils and pitfalls posed to supertankers plying the
Continue readingSong of the Watermelon: Twisting the Facts on the Environment
Courtesy of sumofus.org Case #1: BC Premier Christy Clark has a job creation plan. One component of said plan involves three liquefied natural gas plants in the northern part of the province. Unfortunately, this runs afoul of the provincial Clean Energy Act. So what does Premier Clark do? In June,
Continue reading350 or bust: Enbridge’s Keystone Kops Routine Extends To PR Campaign
After being labelled “Keystone Kops” by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board for their vastly inadequate and incompetent response to pipeline spills in Michigan recently, Enbridge is now making headlines for a glaring omission in an Northern Gateway publicity video. The company’s material omitted 1,000 square kilometres of islands off
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: NDP Energy Critic John Horgan Isn’t Buying Into David Black’s Refinery Scheme
John Horgan BC NDP Energy Critic The BC NDP have been opposed to the Enbridge Proposal from the get-go. Newspaper Mogul David Black’s proposal changes little as Horgan made clear to every media outlet around. Here is John Horgan’s position, succinctly put.
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Enbridge Sure Can Fabricate the BS!
Many of you have seen the Enbridge video revealing their deceptive handiwork falsifying the reality of the tanker route out of Kitimat. Some of those You Tube videos have been yanked. I guess the backlash was just too much for the spinners to manage down the fallout. So let us
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: BC NDP Challenge on Enbridge But Embrace Fracking and the Pacific Trails Pipeline!
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger The BC Liberal’s have sold us out over the Enbridge Pipeline no matter how you cut it. The BC NDP are the Enbridge Opponent Champions! The Green Party is well, too corporate friendly for my taste, but then look at the BC NDP today. Pacific Trails Pipeline will
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: Enbridge Video Stunningly Misleading
Enbridge vid.jpg For compulsive watchers of, Enbridge Inc., the spill-crazy pipeline company that wants to pipe tarsands crude to the Canadian West Coast – or just for students of the barefaced lie – this video can't be beaten. It purports to show the pipeline route, including an open sea exodus
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