Huffington Post’s Kathryn Marshall meltdown on Power & Politics goes viral
It took awhile but when I looked this afternoon at the now famous Kathryn Marshall Ethical Oil freakout on youtube, the hits were just 6,000. It’s now over 14,000 and…
Northern Gateway
Even More Ethical Oil/Tory Connections Shit!
Deep Climate has done some excellent digging on the connections between the Ethical Oil Institute and our current government. Meanwhile, Jenny Uechi from The Vancouver Observer has got a response…
Ethical Oil Pot-Pourri
Ethical Oil shares a mailing address with Tony Clement’s old campaign office. Also, note this statement from their “About Ethical Oil” page: The median size of our donations to date…
BigCityLib cleans up journalist’s mess. Confirms Brazilian did sign up to speak at pipeline hearings.
Go to BigCityLib’s place for the details on how a simple e-mail clarified at least part of a sloppily-research article from Postmedia, intended no doubt to raise doubts about the…
BCLSB Exclusive: Intervenor Confusion At Northern Gateway Pipeline Hearings? Not As Much As Reported!
Yesterday Licia Corbella reported that she had found two people on the 4,000 plus list of folks wanting to present orally to the Northern Gateway pipeline hearings who, when contacted,…
Why is Ethical Oil too terrified to confirm if it is funded by Enbridge or not? UPDATED with video.
"Don't ask me hard questions. I'm a student!" Wow. Just wow. Yesterday, I watched Power & Politics with Huffington Post’s Kathryn Marshall debating the Northern Gateway hearings with a representative…
Dr Strangelove and the Oil Pipeline
Well in case anyone didn’t understand why the Harper Cons are calling native people and environmentalists “radicals” and “foreign interests.” Leave it up to Tom “Strangelove” Flanagan to explain Big…
Why is Ethical Oil so terrified of confirming if it is funded by Enbridge?
Wow. Just wow. Watched Power & Politics with Huffington Post’s Kathryn Marshall representing Ethical Oil debating with a representative from the Sierra Club foreign involvement in the Northern Gateway hearings.…
Joe Oliver and the Leaking Pipeline
Oh. My. Oily. Oliver. What bad timing. Canadian pipeline builder Enbridge reported a leak from one of its pipelines on the day public hearings began into the company’s planned Northern…
Ethical Oil’s spin: media catching up to the blogs
Again, Alison at Creekside has come up with the goods. This time she provides commentary and the transcript of a complete undressing of Joe Oliver by CBC’s Carol Off. You…
2012 Quote of the Year. "(Radicals) are a group of people who don’t take into account the facts but are driven by an ideological imperative"
It’s only 10 days into January of 2012 and already we have a sure winner for lack-of-self-awareness wingnut quote of the year. Thank you, Joe Oliver and congratulations. Your clueless…
Radical environmentalists, shame on you! Didn’t you know the Northern Gateway will ‘fund social programs’?
Talk about shame. Pro-polluters and climate change deniers have none. Take one Joe Oliver, for example. This creep has the temerity to tell us that the Northern Gateway pipeline will…
As The Debate Over The Northern Gateway Pipeline Heats Up
…it will be important to keep a level head. The GreenPolicyProf blog is a good place for a level headed assessment of the situation on the ground in B.C.. Incidentally,…
Joe Oliver, the Radicals, and the Foreign Interests
You know….if you needed a cheap and apparently inexhaustible source of natural gas to heat your home, you could do worse than connecting a hose to Joe Oliver’s big mouth…
Next time some ‘Ethical Oil’ salesperson gives you the ‘foreign influence’ bunk on the pipeline hearings, mention Alison’s post on the subject at Creekside
I watched in mild horror ’Question Period’ yesterday. Horror, not because CTV is too cheap to broadcast the show in HD, but because of the nonsense delivered on behalf of…
Next time some ‘Ethical Oil’ salesperson gives you the ‘foreign influence’ bunk on the pipeline hearings, mention Alison’s post on the subject at Creekside
I watched in mild horror ‘Question Period’ yesterday. Horror, not because CTV is too cheap to broadcast the show in HD, but because of the nonsense delivered on behalf of…
Canada’s Energy Future
Pressure mounts in the Media, as Canadian Petroleum Producers bombard us with propaganda to forcefeed the Northern Gateway Pipeline and it’s associated Tanker traffic in the most dangerous and pristine…
Really Ipsos-Reid, a poll commissioned by Alberta’s Enbridge on BCers’ opinions on Northern Gateway, published only in Postmedia? Really?
Canadian polling companies are taking a big hit lately and with good reason. One firm I thought would be above the fray is the juggernaut, Ipsos-Reid. Then I read about…
Alberta Mayor On B.C. Opposition To Northern Gateway Pipeline
“It’s kind of like the spoiled child syndrome. We’re not going to get , so we’re not going to do it…” B.C. For B.C.ers! Go back to Mordor, Blue Eyed…
Why I Cannot Currently Support the B.C. Liberal Party
B.C. Premier Christy Clark alludes to the Northern Gateway pipeline: British Columbia’s coast does not just belong to British Columbia, it belongs to Alberta… Not that anyone out there cares…