Stephen Harper meets with National AFN Chief Shawn Atleo in 2011 (Reuters) So Prime Minister Stephen Harper and members of his cabinet have been meeting with BC’s First Nations chiefs in order to get them onside with the Enbridge and Kinder Morgan pipelines. This is a gross insult and I believe
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The Common Sense Canadian: Harper Govt coming to BC to push pipelines on First Nations
Read this Sept. 12 story from CBC.ca on the caravan of federal ministers and bureaucrats aimed at convincing BC’s Forst Nations to back down on their opposition to the proposed Enbridge and Kinder Morgan pipelines to the province’s coast. A parade of cabinet ministers and senior bureaucrats will head to
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Alberta’s pipeline safety faces auditor review after series of spills
2011 Rainbow Pipeline leak in Alberta (Rogu Collecti/Greenpeace) EDMONTON – Alberta’s auditor general is going to take a deeper look at the safety of oil and natural gas pipelines in the province. Merwan Saher said his audit will examine pipeline inspections and will look at how well companies are following
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Whales thriving on coast, threatened by oil tankers: study
VANCOUVER – The number of humpback whales on the northern coast of British Columbia nearly doubled in eight years, but possible oil spills could seriously hamper recovery efforts involving the threatened mammals, a new study suggests. The acoustic animals known for their songs on breeding and feeding grounds were photographed
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Neil Young: ‘Fort McMurray is a wasteland’
Singer comes out swinging against Keystone Pipeline. OTTAWA – Neil Young is singing a new tune, claiming he’s seen the pipeline and the damage done. The Canadian music legend has waded into the debate over the Keystone XL pipeline with inflammatory comments that compare Fort McMurray, Alta., to the scene
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Enbridge Kalamazoo spill still not cleaned up – 3 years later
The burst pipeline that caused Enbridge’s 2010 Michigan spill Read this Sept. 6 story from CBC on the lingering mess from Enbridge’s 3-year-old spill of 4 million barrels of diluted bitumen into Michigan’s Kalamazoo River. Three years after an Enbridge pipeline ruptured and spilled 3.3 million litres of oil into
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Proposed gas pipeline threatens vital Khutzeymateen Grizzly sanctuary
photo: Ian McAllister/Pacific Wild Read this Sept. 7 Vancouver Sun story on the risks to critical bear habitat from a proposed gas pipeline to future LNG terminals in Prince Rupert. The company proposing to build a liquefied natural gas pipeline through a grizzly bear sanctuary near Prince Rupert has already
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Harper caught helping Enbridge while wooing Obama on climate
Photo: Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press While Stephen Harper was busy trying to green-wash his image with Barack Obama – acquiescing to climate targets to improve prospects for the Keystone XL pipeline – Green Party Leader Elizabeth May dropped a bombshell: the suggestion that the Conservative Government is spending $120 million in
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