Squamish council rejects Fortis BC application for test drilling (Instagram/ Dan Prisk) In a surprising show of municipal political power – even in a region that has demonstrated strong misgivings regarding proposed LNG development – Squamish council has rejected Fortis BC’s controversial permit application for test drilling in a Wildlife Management
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The Common Sense Canadian: West, Weyler team up to battle Kinder Morgan
Ben West addressing a Vancouver crowd about Kinder Morgan in 2012 (Damien Gillis) There’s big news on the environmental front! Ben West, the eminent young environmentalist until now with Forest Ethics and, before that, the Wilderness Committee, has joined Rex Weyler fighting tanker traffic on the BC coast through Tanker Free
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Harper govt backing away from pipeline support?
MP James Moore (right) being interviewed by CBC’s Chris Hall (Photo: James Moore/Twitter) Read this eye-opening Dec. 11 story from Chris Hall at CBC.ca regarding comments from BC MP and Industry Minister James Moore during a recent interview, which appeared to distance his Conservative government from the embattled pipeline industry. Industry Minister James Moore
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Harper: It’s “Crazy” to apply climate laws to oil and gas industry
Read this Dec. 9 story from The Globe and Mail on Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s statement that it would be “crazy economic policy” to apply climate regulations to the oil and gas sector. Prime Minister Stephen Harper has retreated further from his pledge to regulate carbon emissions in the oil industry,
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Calgary paper dispenses free parenting advice to BC’s Kinder Morgan opponents
Kim Fink-Jensen (left) and daughter Kate pose with MP Kennedy Stewart after protesting the proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline at Burnaby Mountain (Photo: Kim Fink-Jensen/facebook) I say two cheers and a hey nonny nonny for the Vancouver Province. How good it was of them to re-print, on the op-ed page yesterday a
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Western Canadian regulators band together to reduce “pipeline delays”
As if Western Canadian regulators weren’t already friendly enough to energy projects, they are now uniting to address what they see as growing “pipeline delays”. Check out this Dec. 2 story from Bloomberg on their recent pact. Canada’s provincial energy regulators are banding together to cooperate amid hold-ups in constructing
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: First Nations react to LNG approvals with highway blockade
Highway 16 blockade on Saturday (Photo submitted) A group of 65 Gitxsan First Nations and supporters, led by several hereditary chiefs, showed up on an icy December Saturday to block Highway 16, near Hazelton. They were peacefully registering their opposition to the recent granting of 3 new environmental certificates for proposed LNG
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: National Energy Board clearly doesn’t serve Canadians
The 3-member NEB Joint Review Panel for the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline The National Energy Board (NEB) is supposedly an independent legal body constituted by the government of Canada to consider evidence on proposed energy projects and then to objectively decide if such projects as oil or gas pipelines
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Alberta Premier Prentice goes East to rescue TransCanada pipeline
Jim Prentice meeting with Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard (Twitter) This story is republished with permission from Desmog.ca. By Derek Leahy Alberta Premier Jim Prentice begins an Energy East lobby tour today in Quebec City to try to woo the premiers of Quebec and Ontario into supporting TransCanada’s 1.1 million barrel-per-day
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Rafe to Christy: Spare the kids, parents your Kinder Morgan lectures
11-year-old Kate Fink-Jensen (CTV) and Premier Clark (Lyle Stafford, Postmedia) Premier Christy Clark has taken it upon herself to criticize the parents of two 11-year-olds who protested the Kinder Morgan action in Burnaby and were only not arrested because the police chose to refrain from doing so. The premier is
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Rafe: Critics of Burnaby Mountain citizens are out of touch with public will for change
84 year-old retried librarian Barbara Grant getting arrested at Burnaby Mountain (Burnaby Mountain Updates/facebook) I’m inspired, if that’s the right word, from two quite irreconcilable sources. First, the Vancouver Sun editorial of last Thursday, and secondly a wonderful movie called Revolution, by Canadian Rob Stewart, which I urge you to
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Kinder Morgan pulling out of Burnaby Mountain with work unfinished
Photo: Jonathan Hayward/CP Read this Nov. 28 story from The Vancouver Sun on Kinder Morgan’s decision to pull its drilling equipment off of Burnaby Mountain one day after losing its bid to extend the injunction it had in place against protestors. VANCOUVER — Kinder Morgan has stopped drilling on Burnaby Mountain and
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Kinder Morgan loses on injunction extension, civil contempt charges
Burnaby Mountain Caretakers locked to Supreme Court doors in Vancouver today (Burnaby Mountain Updates) Read this Nov. 27 story from CBC.ca on American pipeline giant Kinder Morgan’s rough day in court. An application by Kinder Morgan to extend an injunction keeping protesters away from two drilling sites on Burnaby Mountain was
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: BC approves Petronas LNG plant and 2 more gas pipelines
Petronas CEO Shamsul Abbas shakes hands with BC Premier Christy Clark Read this Nov. 26 Reuters story on the BC Liberal government’s approval of multiple LNG infrastructure applications. VANCOUVER — British Columbia has approved a liquefied natural gas export terminal being developed by Malaysia’s Petronas, along with two pipelines to service
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Rafe: Tough on Kinder Morgan, Corrigan & Robertson my kind of mayors
Re-elected mayors Gregor Robertson & Derek Corrigan. Photos: CP (left) / Dale Cornish/Forest Ethics (right) Derek Corrigan is my kind of mayor. So is Gregor Robertson. Both of these mayors are prepared to look beyond the immediate concerns of their city and take a broader view. I have no doubt
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Dramatic video of RCMP injunction enforcement on Burnaby Mountain
Filmmaker and Common Sense Canadian contributor Dan Pierce was on hand yesterday for the RCMP’s enforcement of a BC Supreme Court injunction to remove citizens from their Burnaby Mountain blockade of Kinder Morgan. Watch his dramatic footage here. Hours later, at approximately 10 PM last night, the Huston-based pipeline builder began
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: BREAKING: Kinder Morgan work trucks roll up Burnaby Mountain
Kinder Morgan contractors delivering construction materials to Burnaby Mountain (Salix O’Connell/facebook) Kinder Morgan contractors began rolling work trucks with construction equipment up Burnaby Mountain at approximately 10 PM on Thursday. Photographs shared on a citizen-led facebook page show trucks, trailers, fencing, and other materials and workers at the site of
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Arrests begin on Burnaby Mountain in Kinder Morgan standoff
One of the first arrests made on Burnaby Mountain (Photo: Brad Hornick/facebook) Read this Nov. 20 story from CBC.ca reporting on the first round of arrests at Burnaby Mountain since an injunction was issued last week to remove Kinder Morgan protesters. A 10 AM update posted on a facebook page
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Economist catches Kinder Morgan skimping on Canadian taxes
Kinder Morgan Canada President Ian Anderson talks a good game on Canadian benefits from his company’s proposed pipeline – but economist Robyn Allan disagrees (photo: Kinder Morgan) The following is an open letter to Premier Christy Clark from economist and former ICBC CEO Robyn Allan November 19, 2014 Dear Premier
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Keystone XL bill narrowly fails in Senate
Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (right) failed to get the Keystone XL passed Read this Nov. 18 Reuters story on the Keystone XL bill’s narrow defeat by the US Senate. (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate on Tuesday narrowly failed to pass a bill that would have approved construction of
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