Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Jeremy Warren reports on the latest Canadians for Tax Fairness events working to ensure that Cameco and other megacorporations pay at least their…
Kinder Morgan
The Battle for Burnaby Mountain and Kinder Morgan’s Day of Defeat
They have gathered on Burnaby Mountain to try to prevent the giant energy company Kinder Morgan from drilling a hole through its heart.Dozens of young and old activists have been…
Political Eh-conomy Radio: Climate deals and pipeline steals
https://politicalehconomy.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/podcast-141128-oil-and-climate.mp3 Today’s episode is focused on the economics and politics of climate change, both more globally and locally. To get a global perspective on the state of climate negotiations and…
Citizenship That Speaks Loudly
Although we live during a time when the term ‘citizen’ has been largely supplanted by corporate misnomers like ‘stakeholders’ and ‘customers’ and ‘taxpayers,’ the concept of citizenship still lives in…
Rafe: Tough on Kinder Morgan, Corrigan & Robertson My Kind of Mayors
Rafe Mair stands with Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson and Derrik Corrigan fighting for land use jurisdictional authority against Kinder Morgan and the Prime Minister Harper’s Federal Government. Kinder Morgan’s plans…
Whether You Support Pipelines or Not, Here’s Something We Can Surely Agree On.
No secret I’m opposed to both Kinder Morgan and Northern Gateway. A sizeable majority of British Columbians are of the same mind but a significant minority supports the pipeline initiatives.…
And Now, A Word From David Susuki’s Grandson
Tamo Campos, David Susuki’s 24-year-old grandson, was arrested Thursday for defying an injunction granted to Kinder Morgan, which is currently conducting drilling tests in preparation for the much-contested proposed Trans…
This is Going To Be A War-Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan
Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan has gone to court challenging Kinder Morgan’s efforts to proceed contrary to Burnaby’s bylaws. If the court upholds the by-laws then Kinder…
Kinder Morgan: Message From Ralphie
This is my mad face: Kinder Morgan wants him charged with assault. Recommend this Post
A Government Corrupted
There’s no trace of hyperbole in denouncing Stephen Harper as the Great Corrupter. He is corrupt and he corrupts whatever he touches whenever and however it suits him. The proof…
Good News – For a Change
Last week I wrote about how Kinder Morgan/Trans-Canada Pipeline was using its corporate muscle and deep pockets to intimidate anti-pipeline protesters in the Lower Mainland. The term for this sort…
Kinder Morgan Slaps Burnaby Residents With A Multi-Million-Dollar Lawsuit
Richard Hughes-We are being occupied! Whoever thought that in Canada our Prime Minister and the Premier of BC would sell us out as is being done by Harper and Christy…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Rick Smith discusses the growing public appetite to fight back against burgeoning inequality – along with the need to make inequality a basic…
Vancouver Marches National Energy Board into Court
The City of Vancouver is going to court. It’s goal is to get an order requiring that climate change impacts be considered by the ersatz-National Energy Board hearings on Kinder-Morgan’s…
Harper blasted for pushing Kinder Morgan’s $5.4B oil pipeline
In a strongly worded letter, Lower Nicola Indian Band Chief Aaron L. Sam blasts Stephen Harper for pushing Kinder Morgan’s $5.4-billion oil pipeline, ignoring climate change. The post Harper blasted…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Gar Alperovitz suggests in the wake of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century that it’s long past time to reconsider who controls…
Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan And Kinder Morgan On A Collision Course
‘GreenUp or Brown Out’ Skirmishes over access for Kinder Morgan and Spectra to Lower Mainland properties show the debate over Canada’s energy future is washing up on local streets. Common…
Parsing Justin Trudeau’s Words
Like many, I have real reservations about Justin Trudeau’s capacity for the kind of leadership that reflects a mature and nuanced mind. While many praise him for his spontaneity and…