It took awhile but when I looked this afternoon at the now famous Kathryn Marshall Ethical Oil freakout on youtube, the hits were just 6,000. It’s now over 14,000 and rising. Word has been blazing around the web, snaking its way into the States, where amused commenters are comparing Marshall’s
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Even More Ethical Oil/Tory Connections Shit!
Deep Climate has done some excellent digging on the connections between the Ethical Oil Institute and our current government. Meanwhile, Jenny Uechi from The Vancouver Observer has got a response from Minister Clement’s office re the fact that the Ethical Oil Institute is using his old mailing address: Tony Clement’s communications director
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Ethical Oil shares a mailing address with Tony Clement’s old campaign office. Also, note this statement from their “About Ethical Oil” page: The median size of our donations to date is $38. This is quite clever. Lets say you have three donations: $1.00, $38.00, and $100,000. The average size of your
Continue readingBigCityLib cleans up journalist’s mess. Confirms Brazilian did sign up to speak at pipeline hearings.
Go to BigCityLib’s place for the details on how a simple e-mail clarified at least part of a sloppily-research article from Postmedia, intended no doubt to raise doubts about the pipeline hearings and capitalize on the ‘foreign influence’ scam. Alison at Creekside comes up with another scenario involving the infamous Teneycke Snuffaluffagus
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: BCLSB Exclusive: Intervenor Confusion At Northern Gateway Pipeline Hearings? Not As Much As Reported!
Yesterday Licia Corbella reported that she had found two people on the 4,000 plus list of folks wanting to present orally to the Northern Gateway pipeline hearings who, when contacted, claimed to have never heard of the project. She used this fact to cast doubt on the whole hearing process: Clearly, the National Energy
Continue readingWhy is Ethical Oil too terrified to confirm if it is funded by Enbridge or not? UPDATED with video.
"Don't ask me hard questions. I'm a student!" Wow. Just wow. Yesterday, I watched Power & Politics with Huffington Post’s Kathryn Marshall debating the Northern Gateway hearings with a representative from the Sierra Club. What was so amazing is that every time host Evan Solomon correctly asked if Enbridge was funding
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Dr Strangelove and the Oil Pipeline
Well in case anyone didn’t understand why the Harper Cons are calling native people and environmentalists “radicals” and “foreign interests.” Leave it up to Tom “Strangelove” Flanagan to explain Big Oil’s plan for Total World Domination. The branding of opponents as “radicals” is part of a strategy to make sure the
Continue readingWhy is Ethical Oil so terrified of confirming if it is funded by Enbridge?
Wow. Just wow. Watched Power & Politics with Huffington Post’s Kathryn Marshall representing Ethical Oil debating with a representative from the Sierra Club foreign involvement in the Northern Gateway hearings. What was so amazing is that every time host Evan Solomon correctly asked if Enbridge was funding Ethical Oil, Marshall would loudly
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Joe Oliver and the Leaking Pipeline
Oh. My. Oily. Oliver. What bad timing. Canadian pipeline builder Enbridge reported a leak from one of its pipelines on the day public hearings began into the company’s planned Northern Gateway pipeline. And don’t you love this? Enbridge declined to describe how it could be safe to continue operating a
Continue readingEthical Oil’s spin: media catching up to the blogs
Again, Alison at Creekside has come up with the goods. This time she provides commentary and the transcript of a complete undressing of Joe Oliver by CBC’s Carol Off. You can hear the interview here. You can also hear the desperation in Oliver’s voice. As Off presents fact after fact
Continue reading2012 Quote of the Year. "(Radicals) are a group of people who don’t take into account the facts but are driven by an ideological imperative"
It’s only 10 days into January of 2012 and already we have a sure winner for lack-of-self-awareness wingnut quote of the year. Thank you, Joe Oliver and congratulations. Your clueless statement may very well be the quote of the decade.
Continue readingRadical environmentalists, shame on you! Didn’t you know the Northern Gateway will ‘fund social programs’?
Talk about shame. Pro-polluters and climate change deniers have none. Take one Joe Oliver, for example. This creep has the temerity to tell us that the Northern Gateway pipeline will be a progressive’s wet dream. “These are projects of enormous national significance – in terms of job creation and creating
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: As The Debate Over The Northern Gateway Pipeline Heats Up
…it will be important to keep a level head. The GreenPolicyProf blog is a good place for a level headed assessment of the situation on the ground in B.C.. Incidentally, there is some question as to whether the regulatory changes suggested by Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver would apply to Northern
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Joe Oliver, the Radicals, and the Foreign Interests
You know….if you needed a cheap and apparently inexhaustible source of natural gas to heat your home, you could do worse than connecting a hose to Joe Oliver’s big mouth and another one to his other vibrating orifice. Environmental and other “radical groups” are trying to block trade and undermine Canada’s
Continue readingNext time some ‘Ethical Oil’ salesperson gives you the ‘foreign influence’ bunk on the pipeline hearings, mention Alison’s post on the subject at Creekside
I watched in mild horror ’Question Period’ yesterday. Horror, not because CTV is too cheap to broadcast the show in HD, but because of the nonsense delivered on behalf of Alberta’s ‘Ethical Oil’ lobby by Huffington Post’s Kathryn Marshall. Her spiel was more about trying to trap Eric Swanson of Dogwood Initiative with circuitous and
Continue readingNext time some ‘Ethical Oil’ salesperson gives you the ‘foreign influence’ bunk on the pipeline hearings, mention Alison’s post on the subject at Creekside
I watched in mild horror ‘Question Period’ yesterday. Horror, not because CTV is too cheap to broadcast the show in HD, but because of the nonsense delivered on behalf of Alberta’s ‘Ethical Oil’ lobby by Huffington Post’s Kathryn Marshall. Her spiel was more about trying to trap Eric Swanson of Dogwood Initiative
Continue readingCanada’s Energy Future
Pressure mounts in the Media, as Canadian Petroleum Producers bombard us with propaganda to forcefeed the Northern Gateway Pipeline and it’s associated Tanker traffic in the most dangerous and pristine water ways in the world. Across Canada, you are being told by the Press that the majority of British
Continue readingReally Ipsos-Reid, a poll commissioned by Alberta’s Enbridge on BCers’ opinions on Northern Gateway, published only in Postmedia? Really?
Canadian polling companies are taking a big hit lately and with good reason. One firm I thought would be above the fray is the juggernaut, Ipsos-Reid. Then I read about this iffy IR poll commissioned by Northern Gateway proponent Enbridge about British Columbian feelings toward the pipeline. Adding to the mire
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Alberta Mayor On B.C. Opposition To Northern Gateway Pipeline
“It’s kind of like the spoiled child syndrome. We’re not going to get [any major benefits], so we’re not going to do it…” B.C. For B.C.ers! Go back to Mordor, Blue Eyed Shiekh. (Although I should point out I am not currently an official B.C.er, merely an Ex one with
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Why I Cannot Currently Support the B.C. Liberal Party
B.C. Premier Christy Clark alludes to the Northern Gateway pipeline: British Columbia’s coast does not just belong to British Columbia, it belongs to Alberta… Not that anyone out there cares about my opinion, but the winner of the next B.C. Provincial election will have come out against this monstrosity. A few local pols
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