Corky Evans: How You can help save the ALR in 5 min
This call from Corky to help save our farmland is one to be heeded. Originally posted in the Commonsense Canadian it is followed by a Damien Gillis piece with Harold…
BC Provincial Politics
Lehanna Green-Justice Kirpatrick Upholds Justice Mackenzie’s decision On Shawnigan
I understand that there was some Shawnigan blowback following previous posts and reports from Lehanna Green’s blog-Stop dumping contaminated soil in Shawnigan lake. In case there remains confusion or…
CVRD Back In Court Over Seeking To Overturn SIA’s Ability To Dump Contaminated Soil
The continuing saga over the disputed shipments of contaminated soil to South Island Aggregates Shawnigan Watershed location continued in Vancouver court action Monday. Lehanna Green an ardent opponent of the…
Trudeau Critical Of Elizabeth May For Tying Fort McMurray Fires To Global Warming
Green Party leader Elizabeth May has connected the raging fires that wiped out Fort McMurray sending 88, 000 residents fleeing for their lives with Global Warming. She stated the obvious…
Most CVRD Directors Have Abdicated Their Responsibilities Over LNG Project Planned For South Cowichan
What a great time of year if you live on Vancouver Island, a time that has many of us are gardening up a storm. Potatoes in, check. Tomatoes in check.…
Disobedience-The Rise Of Global Fossil Fuel Resistance
It has become crystal clear that our governments will only move as far and fast as they have to. The pressure from the corporate fossil fuel world, their bankers,…
Death in the Peace-Wildlife Devastated
It’s well worth it to pause for a moment, read this devastating report, think on it, and if if grabs you as it did me, demand to see your MLA…
Horgan Stuck Between A Rock and a Hard Place- Premier Notley Sells out the BC NDP!
We are at a crossroads. The old way got us here. Time to discuss, consider, debate and find new ways to manage our energy needs in a way that does…
The Angst Over The Recent CVRD-SIA Court Decision Is Manufactured. The CVRD Won!
Kevin Wallgrove In march we won and the zoning was upheld by the courts, as a result injunctions were issued shutting down the contaminated soil side of the operation. Shortly…
BC Court of Appeal Decision – Victory for Shawnigan Lake
Richard Hughes The post was taken down as requested. There may or may not have been some inaccuracies, but the general drift was valid as far as I can determine.…
The Political Play Between Alberta Premier Notley And The BC Liberals Is Surreal!
Climate Change is creating serious reductions in food and fruits being grown and exported from California. There is nothing to suggest that it will improve, to the contrary, it will…
BC Court of Appeal Decision – Victory for Shawnigan Lake
Here is an excellent post from Lehanna Green’s blog–Stop Dumping Contaminated Soil in Shawnigan lake Submitted by Lehanna Green, April 22nd, 2016 ‘I read the news today, oh boy.’…
Province Steps Into Kinder Morgan Pipeline Proposal
The impact of this decision tosses the ‘Equivalency Agreement’ with the highly suspect and biased National Energy Board back into the province’s lap. Earlier this month, B.C.’s Environmental Assessment Office…
Manitoba PC’s Thump the NDP – Whither Today’s NDP!
By Éric Grenier, for CBC News The Manitoba Progressive Conservatives under Brian Pallister won a majority government in a historic fashion Tuesday night, putting up some of the biggest numbers…
The ‘Leap’ is Not a Protest, It is a Plan Democratically Supported At The NDP Convention
Read More I see that Bill Tieleman has lept to action in today’s column in ‘The Tyee.’ He deceptively attempts to reframe the play away from a common sense approach…
Court Grants Permission For More Dumping Contaminated Soil Pending Appeal August 15th
Shawnigan residents thought that they had won a March 21st BC Supreme Court victory banning the contaminated soil operation from being dumped in their watershed were just hit with another…
Rafe: NDP’s LNG reversal is a game-changer for BC election
The up and down world of politics has visited British Columbia driven to a large extent by the LNG plays of Premier Christy Clark and the evolving positions or near…
Statement On The Passing Of The NDP Leap Resolution
by Avi Lewis, Naomi Klein, Bianca Mugyenyi, Katie McKenna & Martin Lukacs Climate Science and Impacts, The Leap Manifesto We are heartened by the news that the New Democratic Party…
Cross Appeal Filed on CVRD vs Cobble Hill Holdings/South Island Aggregates
Yes, the BC Supreme Court upholding the CVRD’s oft ignored land use bylaw was a win. But what is this? More legal manouvering by SIA/CHH? More costs, distractions and foot…
A Business Knowingly Built On Shaky Ground
Leanna Green attended the South Island Aggreggates (SIA)-Cobble Hill Holdings (CHH) BC Supreme Court Appeal proceedings in Victoria yesterday along with 30 or more Shawnigan residents opposed to dumping contaminate…