By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: Green Party leader Elizabeth May says Prime Minister Stephen Harper is turning Canada into a “rogue nation” and the “North Korea of environmental law”. The Saanich-Gulf Islands MP was reacting to Thursday’s shocking revelation that the Conservative government last week quietly withdrew from yet another important international body, the United Nations
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Sutter Strikes Out
Keeps tongue ‘tween teeth re Keystone XL during White House meeting. President Obama overheard: “We got drones, son. And Viking Alta. is not so far away.”
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Reading The Tea-Leaves: Obama Signalling Keystone Rejection?
From the National Republican Congressional Committee: Organizing For Action, the former Obama campaign apparatus made up of many senior officials, blasted the Keystone proposal in a fundraising email. “In an email to supporters, Organizing for America specifically mentioned Keystone and slamming members of Congress who hope to force construction of
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive | News & Analysis: ‘Senate’s Big Oil Benefactors’ Slammed for Keystone XL Vote
10 KXL amendment co-sponsors took $8 million from fossil fuel industry By: Jacob Chamberlain and Jon Queally | Common Dreams In a 62-37 vote late Friday, the US Senate passed a non-binding amendment calling for the approval of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. Environmental groups and climate activists were quick to condemn
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Alberta Premier Redford’s Desperation Is Showing!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger We have been conned by the Oil & Gas crowd for so long it is often met with resignation. I mean other choices do we have? Truth is we have a great many choices especially if you target a substantial reduction say by 2035. A
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: NY Times On Keystone XL: Pipelines Are A Hot Potato That Canada Should Handle
From this morning’s NY Times:Supporters of the pipeline have argued that this is oil from a friendly country and that Canada will sell it anyway. We hope Mr. Obama will see the flaw in this argument. Saying no to the pipeline will not stop Canada from developing the tar sands,
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: From The Manning Conference
Kady O’Malley posted this shot from the Manning confab yesterday. I’m not sure if its supposed to be from a poll of all Canadians of self-declared conservatives. Either way it shows the Federal and Alberta government’s have been doing a terrible job pitching their various pipe-line projects. No wonder Preston
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Canada’s Environmental Activists “Threat To National Security”: Harper Government
RCMP and CSIS treat peaceful protest actions and questioning the Harper Government as ‘forms of attack’, label activists involved “national security threats”, documents reveal. By Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 22, 2013: The Harper Government is intensifying its attacks on environmental and other activist movements in Canada, according to documents released under freedom
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: CAPP And The Government
Nancy on the coordination of polling research between the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers and Environment Canada: Why is this interesting? Government public opinion research must be non-partisan. But here, the government was able to access partisan-oriented research. Second, Postmedia obtained this information via a federal access to information request. Guess
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: “Forward on Climate”: 35 0000 March on Washington for Climate Action
By Sierra Club | Feb. 17, 2013: Washington, D.C. – Today, during President’s Day weekend, more than 35,000 people are marching to the President’s doorstep to support immediate action to contain climate change. People from more than 30 states across the country whose land, homes and health are being threatened by the climate
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Tar Sands Contaminated Ground Water Headed For Athabasca River!
…though it hasn’t got there yet. No good way to sugar-coat this (though the shill from CAPP makes a good attempt in the linked article): Two unsurprising facts noted in Mike DeSouza’s twitter feed. The Harper government knew about this last year, and they’ve told the scientists who reported it to STFU.
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Forward On Climate Rally, Washington D.C., Feb 17: Twitter Stream
Forward on Climate Rally, Washington D.C., Feb 17: Twitter Stream Tweets by @ClimateForward The Canadian Progressive recommends: HISTORY: #ForwardOnClimate Rally in Washington, D.C., Feb. 17 Canada’s tar sands are the fifth largest climate threat in the world Grammy-award winning rapper Eve to perform at Forward On Climate rally
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Forward On Climate Rally, Washington D.C., Feb 17: PHOTOSTREAM
Forward On Climate Rally, Washington D.C., Feb 17: PHOTOSTREAM The Canadian Progressive recommends: HISTORY: #ForwardOnClimate Rally in Washington, D.C., Feb. 17
Continue reading350 or bust: Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
We act not because it’s easy, but because it’s right. Thousands of people are gathering in Washington DC today to send a message to President Obama that clean air, clean water, and a stable climate are not negotiable – the Keystone XL Pipeline must not be approved. *
Continue readingdrive-by planet: NRDC video: Keystone XL tar sands climate threat
This new video by NRDC and 350.org takes a cool, fact-based look at a hot topic – with current information on tar sands oil/Keystone XL. The video discusses current research from Oil Change International that shows that tar sands oil will produce even more carbon pollution than previously estimated. Link
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: The Keystone XL Tar Sands Climate Threat (VIDEO)
New information shows that dirty oil from the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline would create even more dangerous carbon emissions and add to the threat of climate change. Come to the Forward on Climate Rally to stop the Keystone XL pipeline Feb. 17, 2013, in Washington, DC. The Canadian Progressive recommends:
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Grammy-award winning rapper Eve to perform at Forward On Climate rally
By Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 15, 2013: Grammy-award winning rapper Eve to perform at Forward On Climate rally in Washington D.C., Sunday, Feb 17, according the Sierra Club, one of the organizations leading and supporting the event. The details: What: Grammy-award winning rapper Eve and popular NY turntablist DJ Kalkutta
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Prominent Canadians Support Forward on Climate Rally
by Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive, Feb. 15, 2013: Support from Naomi Klein, Maude Barlow, David Suzuki, and others: OAKLAND, Calif — Prominent Canadians from a variety of backgrounds have signed on to a letter in support of the “Forward on Climate” rally on February 17, when tens of thousands of committed
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Keystone XL pipeline: Leaders in historical act of civil disobedience in front of White House
48 environmental, civil rights, and community leaders engage in historic act of civil disobedience to stop Keystone XL pipeline. Julian Bond, Bill McKibben, Michael Brune, and others arrested in front of White House in call for action on climate. By Sierra Club | Feb. 13, 2013: WASHINGTON, D.C. – This morning, 48 environmental,
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