Environmental ‘Process’ a Myth in Stephen Harper’s Canada
It’s past time that we began to examine the word “process” as it relates to the environment. It has become, you see, a federal buzz word for sacrificing the environment…
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Environment Still an Afterthought to BC Media in Election Run-up
There is, evidently, a strong aversion in the mainstream media to talk about the environment and I can only guess why. Was the Kalamazoo spill by Enbridge too complicated to…
Rafe Mair: Why BC’s First Nations Should Refuse Harper Meetings…For Now
While I have no insight into all the considerations of BC First Nations, I do pretend to know something about politics. Let me tell you what I would feel if…
How the Environment is Becoming the Top Issue for Canadians
How much is our wild salmon worth? What price on our rivers and the ecologies they sustain? Is there any financial arrangement that will compensate for the loss of our…
Public Will Soon Turn on Kinder Morgan…Will the NDP?
Mike Smyth had an interesting column in Sunday’s Province, dealing with the proposed second and much larger Kinder Morgan Pipeline to Vancouver, which would see a five-fold increase in tanker…
Cancellation of Private River Power Project in Kootenays a Victory for Citizens and the Environment
Private power producer AXOR, under subsidiary Purcell Green Power, planned to dam and divert Glacier and Howser Creeks in the Purcell Wilderness in the Kootenays, along with two other nearby…
Cancellation of Private Power Project in Kootenays a Victory for Citizens, Bull Trout
Private power producer AXOR, under subsidiary Purcell Green Power, planned to dam and divert Glacier and Howser Creeks in the Purcell Wilderness in the Kootenays, along with two other nearby…
Rafe: BC Liberal Government Corrupt
The Campbell/Clark government is corrupt and there are a number of the reasons I say this – from BC Rail and the HST to private power contracts, deceitful budgets and,…
Undemocratic Jumbo Resort Threatens Kootenay Grizzly Bears
The Jumbo Ski Resort planned for the Purcell Mountains has been approved by the provincial government, which has put in place legislation for the area to become a municipality. The…
One Step Forward with Fish Farms, Two Steps Back with Proposed Fossil Fuel Exports
No sooner had the news been out that the US was looking to be self-sufficient in energy than the bottom feeders rose as one to tell us this means we…
Mark Hume Nails Enbridge on Caribou Paper Cheat
When a clock strikes 13, you can never trust it again. So it must be for anyone who lies about information he is using to back up a serious scientific…
Rafe on Webster Winner Shiral Tobin and the Decline of CKNW
CKNW’s collapse since 2003 has been catastrophic. Whereas they had a 15%+ of radio listeners in those days (I was about 20%) they now have a 9% share running third…
Rafe: Cohen Commission Report Rightly Targets Salmon Farms, Precautionary Principle
There are several things that jumped out at me with the Cohen Commission Final Report, released yesterday. The first is that my faith in Bruce Cohen as expressed on CBC’s…
Premier Clark Supports Canada-China Trade Deal, Abandons BC’s Constitutional Rights
Rafe on BC Premier Christy Clark’s support for controversial Canada-China Investment Treaty (FIPA). In letter from Clark welcoming delegates to the 2012 Canada-China Investment Summit, Clark wrote, “I very much…
Time the NDP Came Clean on Dirty Fracking, Gas-Powered LNG Plants
In a breathtaking turnaround, Premier Clark has decided that when natural gas power is used to concentrate natural gas into a liquefied form it is no longer a nasty old…
Rafe on Whom to Support in BC’s Upcoming Election
Our position in the 2013 election will be to ask our readers and supporters to please vote for the candidate who is for the environment and has a reasonable prospect…
Rafe Responds to BC Environment Minister’s Enbridge Op-ed
You should read Environment Minister Terry Lake’s op-ed piece in Friday’s Vancouver Sun. If ever you needed proof on the utter incompetence of the Campbell/Clark government this will do it.…
Why Justin Trudeau May be Better for BC than his Father Ever Was
British Columbia is under merciless and massive corporate/political attack which, if not stopped, will change this province much for the worse. To now think that a Prime Minister Justin Trudeau…
Rafe on Clark’s Embarassing Antics in Alberta and Renewed Calls for Wolf Culls
Since Premier Redford supports the pipelines and tanker traffic and is content to have the federal government cram them past BC opposition – and bearing in mind that Premier Redford…
Truth and Competency Still Escape Clark Govt on Enbridge File
The joke used to be, “How can you tell when a lawyer isn’t t telling the truth? The answer is when you see his lips move”. Now substitute politician and…