…between April and December, 2013. And then, presuming a rubber stamp from the panel, it hits the court system, and becomes a national issue in 2015.
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BigCityLib Strikes Back: Northern Gateway Pot Pourri
Former chief of the Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation Terrance Nelson announces his run for national chief of the Assembly of First Nations: So, what is my plan? 1. Support the Yinka Dene! The Northern Gateway project is dead if I am elected national chief. The Kinder Morgan expansion will become
Continue readingMontreal Simon: When the Harper Oil Pimps Destroy Themselves
Last night I told you how the Harper regime was creating a Royal Canadian Oil Police to make sure that nobody but NOBODY stops their planned pipeline to British Columbia. Today they're setting up a Royal Canadian Mop and Pail Brigade to clean up this latest oil spill. Up to
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Former Ministers, PC & Lib, Call Harper Out
They’re challenging Stephen Harper to come clean. An open letter from four former fisheries ministers, two Tories, two Libs, demands some explanations from the Prince of Darkness about just why he’s gutting west coast fisheries protections. They specifically challenge Harper to reveal whether he’s behind this or if he’s catering
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: A "Gaffe", Eh? Part Hmmm
The nation is split over Thomas Mulcair’s “Dutch Disease” theory, with slightly more disagreeing than agreeing with the NDP leader. Some surprising and not so surprising things in the regional numbers: Most people polled in oil-rich Alberta and the rest of the Prairies disagreed with the NDP leader, while those
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Northern Gateway Preview: What An Oil Spill In Your River Looks Like
It’s happening right now in the Russian Arctic. There’s more shots through the link. Actually, here’s one that reminds me of parts of Ontario. Reverse Line 9, anyone?
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: An Argument Even Albertans Should Understand
Even today, simply mentioning the Trudeau-era “National Energy Programme” or NEP to an Albertan is putting a match to gasoline. Yet, in yesterday’s Edmonton Journal, the argument was made that it’s now Alberta inflicting the same injustice on British Columbia with its bitumen pipelines. “For the use of our province’s land
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: With Northern Gateway, Harper = Trudeau And B.C. = Alberta
As a former Albertan, I remember Pierre Trudeau and his National Energy Program. Albertans, I gather, still speak of the NEP with great disdain and bitterness. Consider these startling similarities between the Northern Gateway pipeline and Trudeau’s scheme: One province is told (not asked) that they should take a major
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Harper, You Punk, Man Up!
Those goddamned self-righteous Tories like nothing better than to preach responsibility except when they get a chance to dodge it themselves. And, when a chance does arise, they’ll use their full bag of tricks – secrecy, deception, manipulation, fear mongering – to get really stuck into their dodge. And so
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Is Harper Giving British Columbia Real Cause to Secede?
Some weeks ago Conservative senator Mike Duffy dismissed opponents of the Northern Gateway bitumen pipeline as “anti-Canadian.” The more I think about it, he may just have a point. Does the prime monster’s insistence on grievously imperilling the British Columbia coastline and fisheries with dangerous supertanker traffic not give British
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Our Perverted Petro-Prime Minister and His Big Oil Pals Caught Again
Are Harper and his ilk just born liars? Can their warped, Born Again brains even recognize truth? Courtesy of The Tyee, the latest Northern Gateway pipeline outrage. It now turns out that pipeline is designed to carry 60% more toxic sludge bitumen than claimed that could translate into many hundreds
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Over To You, Christy Clark
“Under the Enbridge proposal, British Columbia would assume almost all the [Northern Gateway] project’s risk, yet would see only a fraction of the benefits,” said Dix in a release. “By any measure, such a high-risk, low-return approach simply isn’t in B.C.’s interests.” It looks, incidentally, as though the federal government’s
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Exxon Valdez? Child’s Play.
For decades we’ve used the Exxon Valdez incident to define oil supertanker disaster. Yet what Harper is planning for coastal BC, south and north, will make the Exxon Valdez disaster a perversely fond memory. Let’s get one thing straight right now. When you introduce several hundred mega-supertanker sailings through treacherous
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Glad Somebody Noticed
Ms. Smith’s [firewall] language may prove attractive to voters, but it means Alberta will likely be pursuing a more aggressive strategy at a time when it most needs the co-operation of other provinces, said David Taras, a political scientist at Mount Royal University. “Just as we need more and more
Continue readingbastard.logic: On That Zombie Suzuki Resignation Story
The Globe: Canada’s most famous environmentalist, David Suzuki, says he left the board of his charitable foundation to avoid being a lightning rod for criticism and government attacks that would undermine its work. Still, Peter Robinson, who is the head of the David Suzuki Foundation, said the group is facing
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Clarification On David Suzuki: The Globe Misleads
The Globe has sown confusion in the blogosphere this morning with this story, which begins: Seeking to blunt Conservative attacks, Suzuki quits board of environmental foundation Canada’s most famous environmentalist, David Suzuki, says he left the board of his charitable foundation to avoid being a lightning rod for criticism and
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Make It Five
In a surprise move, Whistler council introduced and passed a motion officially declaring its opposition to the Northern Gateway oil pipeline project on Tuesday (April 3). Note their reasoning: “Any kind of catastrophe in the inside passage would have a serious effect on tourism (in Whistler),” said Coun. Roger McCarthy.
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Calgary Herald Editorial Writers Tell Lies
…when they write: That said, environmental organizations only have themselves to blame for the crackdown on their activities, as spelled out in last week’s federal budget. By organizing interveners from Brazil, who were signed up apparently without their knowledge, as we reported on some time ago, it was inevitable that
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: War Has Begun
B.C. First Nations are reacting with anger to the government’s decision to retroactively shorten the regulatory review for the Northern Gateway pipeline project in British Columbia. “This incredibly stupid move on the part of the Harper government will only serve to expedite the battle in the courtrooms and on the
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: The Budget And The Environment: The Deniers Liked It
A statement from the ICSC: Canadian federal Budget a step forward on climate change Ottawa, Canada, March 29, 2012: “The International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC) congratulates the Government of Canada for removing from the federal Budget the misleading language of previous Budgets concerning clean air and climate change,” said Tom
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