Rafe Challenges Christy to a Debate
I have, for Premier Clark, an offer she can’t possibly turn down. She refuses to call the Legislature into session because it will only make pundits and politicians (presumably she…
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Rafe: ‘I Support Captain Paul Watson’
I see that all civilization and some uncivilizations, like the USA, want Paul Watson’s hide. Just so there’s no doubt, I’ve known and supported Paul for over 30 years and…
Farewell to Peter Lougheed – A Real Common Sense Canadian
It was a more progressive development of the Tar Sands that happened on Lougheed’s watch. What a pity his policy wasn’t continued, for he stood squarely for this project be…
Rafe on ‘Corporate Citizenship’ and Changing Views
Does the fact I recognize corporations do what is in their financial self-interest – that the onus of demonstrating the environmental safety of mines, fish farms, pipelines, tankers falls not…
BC NDP Must Come Clean on its Full Energy Policy
The NDP are getting a free ride – at least they certainly are on the energy file. I must ask again: Why are they not condemning the proposed twinning of…
The fraudulent public hearings
I have been to a number of joint federal/provincial hearings and I’d rather have a root canal without novocaine than attend another. The chair and the company representative are joined…
Tankers too risky for coast environment
Three engineers including two professors emeritus from UBC have verified what I and others have been saying for some time. An article in the September 1 Vancouver Sun tells us…
The Enbridge Pipeline – it’s all about PR now
We are now seeing the public relations world at work. I know something about the philosophy behind Public Relations companies and their siamese twin, the advertising company. If you want…
Premier Clark should step aside
I simply cannot see how, short of a fluke, Christy Clark can lead her party to victory in May 2013. She didn’t have a chance from the start. With but…
Gordon Gibson, David Black, and the Fraser Institute got it wrong
Rafe Mair takes on an op-ed by Gordon Gibson, in favour of David Black’s Kitimat refinery proposal, published in the Globe and Mail. He identifies this proposal as “idiotic”, and…
Refining the Black Stuff in Kitimat Doesn’t Make Sense
One must, I suppose, take newspaper tycoon David Black’s offer to build a refinery near Kitimat seriously, although the idea is preposterous on several fronts. For openers, he doesn’t tell…
Replacing Enbridge with Rail, Other Routes Misses the Point
The tide seems to be turning against the Enbridge Pipeline but we must take great care not to lose by winning. Industry seems to be talking alternative routes by using…
Replacing Enbridge with Rail, Other Routes Misses the Point
The tide seems to be turning against the Enbridge Pipeline but we must take great care not to lose by winning. Industry seems to be talking alternative routes by using…
Rafe Responds to Gwyn Morgan’s Attack on ‘Environmental Zealots’ Opposing Enbridge
this week, it was right wing zealot Herb Grubel, today it’s some deep thinker, I don’t think, from SNC Lavalin and a director of HSBC, named Gwyn Morgan…Morgan states, “how…
Dix Should be Questioned on his Free Pass for Kinder Morgan
Mike Smyth of the Vancouver Province took on Adrian Dix this morning for not applying the same principles in his stance on the proposed Enbridge pipeline and consequent tanker traffic…
Rafe Responds to Far-Right Wing Fraser Institute Fellow, Defender of Enbridge Pipeline
Dr. Grubel glosses over the most important fact in this controversy – the oil spills he speaks of as certain cannot, for all intents and purposes, be cleaned up. It…
Enbridge Flip-Flops, LNG Pipeline, New Salmon Farm in Clayoquot Perplexing
I’m perplexed at the provincial government’s apparent imminent approval of a new fish farm in Clayoquot Sound. Has no one in that catastrophic government in Victoria read the recent and…
Premier Clark Buys Time on Enbridge
Premier Clark’s fight with Alberta Premier Redford over the Northern Gateway project is a very dangerous ploy. She has, by this action, said plainly that the BC environment is open…
BC Liberal Government Surrenders to Enbridge, Ottawa
The BC Liberals have just offered the sword of surrender to Enbridge and Ottawa as the organ-grinder’s monkey, Environment Minister Terry Lake, made clear in a statement today. Separating the…
Rafe: Clark has BC Behaving Like a Prostitute on Enrbidge, Only Dickering Over Price
Premier Clark reminds me of the story where a man asks a lady if she will go to bed with him for $100,000 and she hems and haws, speaks of…