The Northern Gateway Alliance, a community coalition established to support the project, was in Grande Prairie for a reception to meet its local members and try to increase membership Wednesday night. […] The alliance bills itself as being independent, however Enbridge does pay Kinsley for his work. Note that this
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: The Fruits Of Northern Gateway
CPoC: 30%, -16%LPoC: 20%, + 7%NDP: 40%, + 7% Meanwhile, the same poll contains a few provincial numbers as well: pipe-line sitter Christy Clark stands at 31%; the Socialist hordes, who have declared against Northern Gateway, hold a commanding 45% of popular support; and the far-right pro-pollution Zalmbies languish at 14%. Supporting Northern
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: B.C.ers Oppose Northern Gateway
46% oppose the construction of a pipeline in contrast to 37% who support it. The remaining 17% are undecided or do not have an opinion. Not sure who commissioned this one, but the Mustel Group has done similar work for Forest Ethics previously. So if its them that paid the piper
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Also a factor in the protest was the decline of oolichan in southern B.C. waters, said [First Nations artist] Roy Henry Vickers, and the general threat of oil. Vickers said the traditional oolichan fishery produced oolichan oil, which for First Nations was “the highest priced commodity in the northern part
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Suzuki Vs. The Canadian Senate
Amidst all the rhetorical hippy kicking and general wingnuttery in the Senate over Northern Gateway and the tar sands recently (for example Senator Finley and his “It should never be considered a charitable act to attack Canada’s oilsands” line), Tory Senator Larry W. Smith issued a press release (on March 7,
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Smithers has now voted to officially oppose the Enbridge Northern Gateway project, becoming the fourth local government in the northwest to take that position. […] Councillor Phil Brienesse, whose motion last month to oppose the project was defeated, re-introduced it last night, noting two other communities and a regional district
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The Prince Rupert City Council voted unanimously on Monday night to formally oppose the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline, making it the third northern BC local government to do so over the past few weeks. Gee whiz, more people come out against the national interest. We’re almost up to 50 per
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Alberta’s Interest Is Not Ontario’s Interest Or The National Interest
Testify Brother Dalton: Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has rebuffed Alberta Premier Alison Redford’s plea to publicly defend the oil sands, saying the high “petro” Canadian dollar has “knocked the wind” out of exporters in his province. […] “…if I had my preferences as to whether we had a rapidly growing
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Northern Gateway Alternate Route Also Going Nowhere
… because: “A spill outside of Prince Rupert would be just as damaging as it would be outside of Hartley Bay” Exactly. Meanwhile, Barbara Yaffe asks Ezra if Ethical Oil gets dough from Enbridge: I put the question to Ethical Oil creator Ezra Levant, a right leaning political activist who kindly
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Skeena Queen Charlotte Says NO To Northern Gateway
They don’t no dirty oil from Alta. befouling their waters. Meanwhile, Enbridge considers a route change. But, as the article suggests, it probably won’t help much. Just a different group of people laying down in front of the tractors. If this thing gets approved, incidentally, I’m may fly out West and chaining myself
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Terrace Says NO
After years of sitting on the fence, the City of Terrace finally has an official answer to Northern Gateway… Meanwhile, the pipe-line project is being credited with bringing First Nations and non-native communities together: Jen Rice, who sits on the Prince Rupert City Council, stated, “Individuals, commercial and sports fishers
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: How An Environmentalist Might Support Northern Gateway
From Simon Donner, who studies coral reefs: If the Harper government were not so consistently obstinate on federal climate policy, people like me (a climate scientist who has long been wary of the NIMBYism of environmental groups) might not become vociferous opponents of projects like Northern Gateway. We are forced
Continue readingChina gets our oil. We get pandas.
Adorable! Ethical Pandas. Slick Stevie Harper in China. “Cute, cuddly results”. Hurry, where’s that kitten? Put it down. We got pandas now. Photos up!
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Every Man Woman And Child In B.C. Will Receive A Gold Plated Cowboy Hat
At a January meeting with her Alta. counterparts, B.C. Premier Christy Clark said what’s obvious: …[she] bluntly told Ms. Redford that public opinion is against the [Northern Gateway] pipeline in British Columbia – Alberta gets the benefits while B.C. carries the risks of environmental disaster, according to senior officials in B.C. …and
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Pipelines To Drive Up Gas Prices
Reading about Northern Gateway this morning: Enbridge forecast a $2 to $3 annual increase in the price per barrel of crude in its pipeline application to the joint National Energy Board-Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency panel. I was reminded of this piece from a few weeks ago: The analyst said that
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Another Shoe Drops In Northern Gateway Debate
Following Bob Rae’s somewhat watered down but nevertheless not bad interjection yesterday, the NDP brings a bit more rhetorical muscle: OTTAWA — If the independent review panel studying Enbridge’s Northern Gateway oilsands pipeline proposal gives its OK to the project, the interim leader of the federal NDP says that still wouldn’t
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: How The LPoC Can Win In B.C.
Rae told a Vancouver audience Saturday he still sees a need for his party’s informal ban on oil tankers along B.C.’s north coast, which is right where Enbridge wants tankers to load up with oil coming from Alberta’s oilsands via a new pipeline. A formal ban would kill that cursed pipeline;
Continue readingEnemygate: Harper’s divisive politics
Margaret Atwood has dubbed it ‘Enemygate’. ForestEthics whistleblower Andrew Frank accuses Harper of bullying tactics. John Bennett of the Sierra Club frets that this is “a scary time for Canadian democracy”. With the Prime Minister calling any opposition to his pet Keystone project, “enemy of the Government of Canada”, the
Continue readingMedia Matters: US media favoured Keystone XL proponents over opponents by wide margin
No surprise here. With the exceptions of USA Today and the Los Angeles Times, every news outlet included in this study quoted or hosted more people in favor of the pipeline than opposed. That’s just the US media. You can comfortably posit that the coverage in the largely conservative Canadian
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Northern Gateway Rising: A Slightly More Interesting Bullshit Poll
Decima’s latest, which gives the following national numbers: …the Conservatives at 32 per cent support, followed by the NDP at 29 per cent. The Liberal Party, which held its 2012 convention in Ottawa two weeks ago in an attempt to rescue itself from permanent third-party status, is sitting at 25 per
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