let them stay week day 2: letter to the editor
Let Them Stay Week 2014 kicked off yesterday with a flutter on social media. Today we get underway in earnest by writing letters to the editors of local newspapers. Three…
January 2014
The Third Line #nlpoli
Most people in Newfoundland and Labrador never think about the electricity into their homes. They don’t know where it comes from and they certainly don’t have any idea how it…
Neil Young And The Tar Sands
Just to stave off the usual complaints about Neil’s being a washed-up rocker. It’s true I don’t wait for his new music like I used to, but every once in…
Rail Company blames beavers & rain for BurnAntby derailment
Inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/cn-rail-says-beavers-rain-to-blame-for-burnaby-derailment-1.2493781
New Carbon Rules for Power Plants A Missed Opportunity To Rein in Natural Gas Emissions, Critics Say
One of the linchpins of the Obama administration’s high-stakes plan to address climate change moved one step closer to implementation this week, as the EPA officially published proposed new carbon…
Retraction and Apology for Incorrect Claims About West Virginia Chemical Origins
DeSmogBlog regrets the incorrect claims made in an article published late Sunday night regarding the origins of the chemical spilled into the Elk River in West Virginia. The piece incorrectly…
More Clever Climate Change Awareness Actions!
…Burning oil caused the melting in the first place… A week ago two climate change activists pulled a Yes Men on our greatest employee, Mr. Stephen Harper. But last summer,…
Revealed: Koch Brothers’ Georgia-Pacific Supplied Coal Chemical Contaminating West Virginia River
A few days after the Freedom Industries’ spill of 4-methylcyclohexane methanol into the Elk River near Charleston, West Virginia, little is known about how that chemical impacts drinking water. Leaving…
Regulator ‘pulling a fast one’ with short Kinder Morgan public comment period
Read this Jan. 9 Vancouver Sun story on the unusually short public comment period set by the National Energy Board for the proposed Kinder Morgan oil pipeline expansion to Vancouver…
Robert Fulford falls flat on his face
Perhaps it’s because he wrote this yellowed, lazy article on a Democratic president in the Conservative press (National Post), so no one will object. Even if it’s based almost solely…
Neil Young: A Canadian Legend Blasts the Con Regime
To see him standing up for a small First Nation that is fighting a giant foreign oil company is so inspiring.An example to us all.To hear him denounce Stephen Harper…
Harper fires back at Neil Young’s anti-Tar Sands tour
Legendary rocker Neil Young should mind his own carbon footprint, says Stephen Harper Read this Jan. 12 story from Sun News on Stephen Harper’s response to an anti-Tar Sands tour…
Nothing that a whack on the head can’t fix
I’ve been crazy busy lately, at work and at home. The move is scheduled for February 1st, so I’ve been packing and decluttering and running stuff over to Value Village…
Rain blamed for yet another CN derailment – this time near Vancouver
Yet another derailment for CN, this time involving coal, near Vancouver. BURNABY, B.C. – A CN Rail spokeswoman has confirmed heavy rainfall led to a train derailment in the Vancouver…
Fukushima water decontamination system breaks down
Tanks containing radioactive water at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant (Issei Kato / Reuters) Read this Jan. 9 story from RT.com, reporting on the failure of the water decontamination system at…
Yet another CNRL leak probed by Alberta regulator in Cold Lake
An earlier CNRL leak in Cold Lake, Alberta (Chester Dawson / Wall Street Journal) COLD LAKE, Alta. – The Alberta Energy Regulator is investigating another leak from a Canadian Natural…
Multiple spy agency watchdogs have ties to oil industry
Security Intelligence Review Committee head and ex-Conservative MP Chuck Strahl (Adrian Wyld/CP) Read this Jan. 10 story from CBC.ca on further revelations of Canadian spy agency watchdogs with lobbying ties…
A Motivational Video
If Stephen Harper’s contempt for the things we hold dear as Canadians isn’t reason enough to vote, what is? Recommend this Post