The NDP has one slim chance of winning the next BC election: Embracing the “New Economy” – creating healthy, sustainable jobs vs. the Liberals’ old, bankrupt ideas of LNG and big dams.
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Continue readingRafe Mair has a little fun with a wild idea: If Elizabeth May took over the BC Green Party, she’d have an outside shot of beating the Liberals and NDP in next year’s election.
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Continue readingBy approving Woodfibre LNG and refusing to cancel federal permits for Site C, the Trudeau government is showing that, when it really matters, its promises to First Nations and the environment are meaningless.
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Continue readingOver 130 scientists are slamming the draft environmental report into a proposed LNG terminal on Lelu Island over salmon issues. Meanwhile, the public has until end of day Friday to comment on the report.
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Continue readingShould elected regional directors be allowed to voice their opinion on an LNG project before the company formally applies? That’s the question at the centre of a bizarre, heated legal and political controversy in Saanich Inlet – which promises to be the next big LNG battleground.
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Continue readingIn backing the Liberals’ LNG vision, John Horgan and the BCNDP made a fatal mistake, argues Rafe Mair. Had they done their job in opposition, they would now be poised to take down the government over its failed policies – instead, they face another crushing loss.
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Continue readingWith the longterm decline of fossil fuel markets, Canada should abandon old-economy pipeline projects like Energy East and Kinder Morgan and focus on the booming green economy, argues Will Dubitsky.
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Continue readingA recent Vancouver Sun editorial titled “In defence of oil industry” shows parent company and partner of the oil and gas sector Postmedia’s true colours, says Rafe Mair.
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Continue readingLiberal MP Pamela Goldsmith-Jones is holding a series of public meetings into Woodfibre LNG’s climate impacts – but what about local fish, tanker and health risks, asks Rafe Mair.
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Continue readingFormer BC Hydro CEO Marc Eliesen has slammed the organization’s push to evict farmers and First Nations from Site C protest camp in a court affidavit. Rather than costing Hydro, a delay in construction will only save taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars, he’s told the BC Supreme Court. Hydro’s injunction application will be heard Monday.
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Continue readingPrime Minister Justin Trudeau has promised a climate test for LNG plants like Petronas’s controversial one on Lelu Island. Now, the question is will he follow through?
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Continue readingMajor advances in batteries and other storage technologies are jump-starting renewable energy – making it competitive with fossil fuels and closer to being able to replace them.
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Continue readingGet ready for BC’s Annual “Deception Day”, says Rafe Mair – when the government’s budget, with its fictitious surpluses and billions in hidden Hydro debts, becomes a game of Three-card Monte
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Continue readingRussian scientists who studied the severe decline of salmon run, attributed to an LNG plant, warn BC could face a similar disaster with Petronas’ proposed Lelu Island LNG plant.
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Continue readingThe old divide between “left” and “right” no longer applies to the environment, says Rafe Mair, as even traditionally conservative voters are now paying attention to things like climate and water. Politicians who fail to grasp this new reality, such as BC Premier Christy Clark, do so at their peril.
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Continue readingRafe Mair calls out BC Premier Christy Clark for shameless politicking over Site C Dam at Bill Bennett’s funeral and for dismissing LNG opponents as “the forces of ‘No'”
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Continue readingRafe Mair on the death of hard-hitting mainstream journalism: “The world will get by without Woodward and Bernstein and Edward R. Murrow – but it won’t be as good a world, as honest a world.”
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Continue readingTechnical arguments and sham hearings on the merits and risks of pipelines and tankers miss the point, argues Rafe Mair.
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Continue readingPlans for LNG terminals near Prince Rupert break all the big international safety rules, putting lives at risk. But you wouldn’t know it listening to the government or industry, says Graeme Pole.
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Continue readingLongtime BC Premier WAC Bennett’s dream of affordable public power, ferries and rail is dead. Rafe Mair describes how a need generation of right wingers – the BC Liberals – killed it.
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