NWT Premier Bob McLeod talks of sending Alberta oil to Tuktoyaktuk: One reason McLeod is vocalizing his support for transporting oil sands bitumen through his territory is because the NWT has potentially two to three billion barrels of oil in the Canol shale formation in the Mackenzie Valley. These resources could be
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earthgauge: 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 readingThe Disaffected Lib: Harper’s War on British Columbia
Is Stephen Harper waging a deliberate campaign to suppress British Columbia and her people? I have been working on compiling a list of the measures Harper has imposed on British Columbia to facilitate the Northern Gateway pipeline and bitumen trafficking to China. Taken individually, these measures are affronts, typical of
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The ROC Stands With B.C.
Respondents were given information about BC Premier Christy Clark’s conditions for supporting the Northern Gateway Pipeline. The most contentious, that BC receives its fair share of tax revenue for the environmental risk it is taking, was told to respondents. They were then asked which of two statements came closest to
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 readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Treacherous Prime Minister
Douglas Channel Steve Harper’s environmental assessment of the Northern Gateway bitumen pipeline proposal is an utter sham. Steve says the fate of the pipeline will be decided by science but, after so many years, anyone who puts stock in what Steve says is, well, let’s say cognitively impaired. The fact
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Northern Gateway Hearings a Stacked Deck
Those who suspect that Steve Harper has “fixed” the environmental assessment of the Northern Gateway pipeline initiative won’t be surprised to learn the board reviewing the proposal has ruled the U.S. Transportation Safety Board report into the Enbridge pipeline fiasco on the Kalamazoo River in Michigan won’t be admitted into
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Great Furry Leader and the Nasty Pipeline
Good golly Miss Molly. Who needs Pussy Riot when we got Stephen Harper? And could this possibly be true? Could he really be a changed man, as his new/old image would suggest? Could he really have morphed into a Great Purry Furry Leader who now loves scientists, isn't going to
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: "This is Absolutely NOT a P.R. Exercise" – Yeah, Right
Brenda Kenny has got a pair. That much you have to give her. The president of the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association plans to counter a string of public relations disasters by announcing an “Integrity First” strategy to improve pipeline safety and the industry’s “social performance.” “Kenny told reporters [in Ottawa] that Calgary-based
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Should BC Take a Page from Harper’s Own Book?
Remember Steve Harper’s “Alberta Firewall” letter, the one where he advocated the Wild Rose state should ditch the RCMP, implement its own healthcare regime independent of Ottawa and even collect and withhold income taxes? Well our very own Island Tides newspaper thinks B.C. should give Harper’s ideas a try. The
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: N.W.T Premier Walks It Back
He wasn’t announcing his support for the Northern Gateway pipe-line. Oh noooo, he wasn’t talking about that at all: The Northern route [Premier Bob] McLeod had been talking about for oil and gas had to do with the Mackenzie Gas Project, and he based that solution on the territory’s resources not
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Mr. Harper, If It’s Science That You Really Want
The Prince of Darkness says he’ll let “science” determine the fate of the Northern Gateway and, presumably, Kinder-Morgan bitumen trafficking proposals. Harper insisted Tuesday a decision on major projects such as the Northern Gateway will be made independently by scientists examining the “economic costs and risks” associated with the project.
Continue readingImpolitical: Tell us more, Mr. Science
It was quite the chutzpah filled sound bite Harper offered up during yesterday’s photo-op in B.C. where the Northern Gateway pipeline is the issue of the day: Decisions on these kinds of projects are made through an independent evaluation conducted by scientists into the economic costs and risks that are
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper: When the Bully is Beaten
Well there he was in a classroom in Vancouver, in yet another tightly controlled phony photo-op. Handing out E.I. benefits to the parents of sick kids, posing as Big Daddy, but still sounding like Big Brother. Prime Minister Stephen Harper is defending the independence of the environmental review process underway for
Continue readingearthgauge: Earthgauge Radio August 2, 2012: The Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline (encore edition)
Download: earthgaugeradio-podcast-aug2-2012-northerngateway.mp3 On Earthgauge Radio this week, we continue with our ‘best of’ summer series with a program originally broadcast back in January on an issue that only continues to grow in importance: the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline. I have 3 interviews on today’s ‘encore’ show: Emma Gilchrist, Communications
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Northern Gateway Pot Pourri
Two new polls shows overwhelming opposition to Northern Gateway in B.C. One of them suggests that a good portion of BCers are willing to negotiate a better deal with Alberta and the feds; the other suggests that Christy Clark’s new harder line against the pipeline hasn’t helped her electorally. So,
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Parizeau Connection
OMG. This is scarier than the French Connection eh? I'm sure you know the famous story about how Jacques Parizeau decided to take a train trip from Montreal to Banff in 1969. And how he would later say: "When I left Montreal's Windsor Station, I was a federalist. When I
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Enbridge Shut Out Again
Ottawa, Alberta and the rest of Canada want to ram Enbridge down British Columbia’s throat as operator of the environmental calamity they call the Northern Gateway pipeline but the Americans aren’t so indifferent. Following Enbridge’s latest pipeline failure, in Wisconsin, the U.S. transportation secretary has ruled Enbridge won’t be allowed
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Pipeline and the Terrorist Menace
Some days this summer its been too hot to go to the beach. And when I do go, and I lie there on the baking sand, I can't help thinking of the sun as the enemy. Burning the life out of the planet. Read more »
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