This is Update #4 of the Red Deer River Oil Spill… Gord and Bonnie Johnston have abandoned their 23-hectare rural property after it was soaked with oil last week, following the Rangeland Pipeline System failure. [ Article ] Bruce Beattie, the Reeve of Mountain View County, one of the affected communities,
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somecanuckchick dot com: The Red Deer River Oil Spill — Update #3
This is Update #3 of the Red Deer River Oil Spill… With support from the Sundre Petroleum Operators Group and Red Deer County, Plains Midstream Canada continues to communicate with local landowners. [ Article ] An information centre has been established at the James River Community Hall. Plains Midstream Canada, Sundre
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: The Red Deer River Oil Spill — Update #2
This is Update #2 of the Red Deer River Oil Spill… Plains Midstream Canada has shut down 10 kilometres of the Rangeland Pipeline System. [ Article ] Plains Midstream Canada says, “The release is contained within the two booms on the Gleniffer Reservoir.” [ PDF ] Plains Midstream Canada is now blogging
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: The Red Deer River Oil Spill — Update #1
This is Update #1 of the Red Deer River Oil Spill… Tracey McCrimmon, executive director of the Sundre Petroleum Operators Group, a community group that works with the industry, said people phoned in reports Thursday night of smelling rotten eggs. Plains Midstream Canada estimates 1,000 to 3,000 barrels of oil
Continue readingNEW MEDIA AND POLITICS CANADA: Interview With Environmental Artist Franke James (part the 2nd)
Here’s the second part of my freewheeling interview with environmental artist and activist Franke James. We discuss the pro-active philosophy that guides her visual essays, including her most recent essay ‘What’s Harper Afraid Of?’ Which has generated more that 5,300 letters to the PM, her workshops and the lack of
Continue readingNEW MEDIA AND POLITICS CANADA: Interview With Environmental Artist Franke James (part the 2nd)
Here’s the second part of my freewheeling interview with environmental artist and activist Franke James. We discuss the pro-active philosophy that guides her visual essays, including her most recent essay ‘What’s Harper Afraid Of?’ Which has generated more that 5,300 letters to the PM, her workshops and the lack of
Continue readingNEW MEDIA AND POLITICS CANADA: Interview With Environmental Artist Franke James (part the 2nd)
Here’s the second part of my freewheeling interview with environmental artist and activist Franke James. We discuss the pro-active philosophy that guides her visual essays, including her most recent essay ‘What’s Harper Afraid Of?’ Which has generated …
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: Move along, nothing to see here!
Plains Midstream Canada is involved in another oil spill in the province of Alberta. Plains Midstream Canada is the same company that saw a 28,000-barrel leak last year from the Rainbow Pipeline. [See Required Reading below.] An estimated 1,000 to 3,000 barrels of leaked oil, stretches along the Red Deer
Continue readingNEW MEDIA AND POLITICS CANADA: Al Jazeera Reports On The Enbridge Pipeline
It would be great if we could get some in-depth reporting on the issues surrounding the Alberta tar/bitumen sands from the Canadian media (from some place other than the completely terrific Tyee that is). For now however, we have to rely on organizations like Al Jazeera to provide us with
Continue readingNEW MEDIA AND POLITICS CANADA: Al Jazeera Reports On The Enbridge Pipeline
It would be great if we could get some in-depth reporting on the issues surrounding the Alberta tar/bitumen sands from the Canadian media (from some place other than the completely terrific Tyee that is). For now however, we have to rely on organizations like Al Jazeera to provide us with
Continue readingNEW MEDIA AND POLITICS CANADA: Al Jazeera Reports On The Enbridge Pipeline
It would be great if we could get some in-depth reporting on the issues surrounding the Alberta tar/bitumen sands from the Canadian media (from some place other than the completely terrific Tyee that is). For now however, we have to rely on organ…
Continue readingNEW MEDIA AND POLITICS CANADA: What A Bitumen Spill In Vancouver Harbour Would Look Like
Mitchell Anderson over at The Tyee has thoughtfully put together the scenario that would likely unfold in the event of a bitumen spill in Vancouver harbour. Something never mentioned in Canada’s rapidly deteriorating media, but obviously important, is how such a spill would affect the residents of Vancouver: The public
Continue readingNEW MEDIA AND POLITICS CANADA: What A Bitumen Spill In Vancouver Harbour Would Look Like
Mitchell Anderson over at The Tyee has thoughtfully put together the scenario that would likely unfold in the event of a bitumen spill in Vancouver harbour. Something never mentioned in Canada’s rapidly deteriorating media, but obviously importan…
Continue readingNEW MEDIA AND POLITICS CANADA: What A Bitumen Spill In Vancouver Harbour Would Look Like
Mitchell Anderson over at The Tyee has thoughtfully put together the scenario that would likely unfold in the event of a bitumen spill in Vancouver harbour. Something never mentioned in Canada’s rapidly deteriorating media, but obviously important, is how such a spill would affect the residents of Vancouver: The public
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: TransCanada’s Latest Extreme Energy Export Pipelines in the U.S. and Canada
shutterstock_48011347.jpg TransCanada was once in the limelight and targeted for its Keystone XL pipeline project. Now, with few eyes watching, it is pushing along two key pipeline projects that would bring two respective forms of what energy geopolitics scholar Michael Klare calls "extreme energy" to lucrative export markets. Pipeline one: the southern
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: What is Harper Afraid Of? [Animated Video]
By Franke James Here is the animated video version of What Is Harper Afraid Of? See the cartoon from last week.
Continue readingNEW MEDIA AND POLITICS CANADA: Animated Version Of Franke James’ Visual Essay "What’s Harper Afraid Of?"
Enjoy the video and watch Franke James artfully connect the dots. What is Harper Afraid Of? from Franke James on Vimeo. After you’ve watched this remember that there are real “radicals” involving themselves in Canada’s politics and they are not any of the environmental charities that the Harper government is
Continue readingNEW MEDIA AND POLITICS CANADA: Animated Version Of Franke James’ Visual Essay “What’s Harper Afraid Of?”
Enjoy the video and watch Franke James artfully connect the dots. What is Harper Afraid Of? from Franke James on Vimeo. After you’ve watched this remember that there are real “radicals” involving themselves in Canada’s politics and they are not any of the environmental charities that the Harper government is
Continue readingNEW MEDIA AND POLITICS CANADA: Animated Version Of Franke James’ Visual Essay “What’s Harper Afraid Of?”
Enjoy the video and watch Franke James artfully connect the dots. What is Harper Afraid Of? from Franke James on Vimeo.After you’ve watched this remember that there are real “radicals” involving themselves in Canada’s politics and they are not any of…
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Let the MSM die, we have alternatives
A news magazine that provides opinion not packaged for Canada’s big business, is The Tyee. David Beers’ publication has nerve, dedication and skill. It daily presents information that frightens managers of Canada’s old style corporate media. Today, another example: Vancouver Oil Sands Tanker Spill Could Cause Evacuation Nightmare, Mitchell Anderson,
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