It seems Harper isn't finished working over British Columbia in preparation for forcing through the Northern Gateway bitumen pipeline-supertanker venture.He's gutted our fisheries regulations, ditto for our marine ecosystem protections.…
Quite a bit more detail here than in the CBC piece. The most interesting bit, though, is not even about the magazine per se. Its about the financial costs associated…
Chicomm PR offensive re Northern Gateway Pipeline in full swing. Talking points contracted out to Ethical Oil.
One thing that grates on plenty of British Columbians is that Canada has two Alberta governments, one too many. We have a provincial Alberta government that sits in Edmonton and…
There are signs that the fight for the coast may have new impetus. As reported recently in the Associated Press, the United States could soon come into a bounty of…
We’re here, maybe not queer, but you are going to have to live with it. I attended the local “Defend Our Coast” rally this week outside our local MLA’s office.…
Drill, baby, drill. We’ve heard of America’s natural gas bounty realized by extensive fracking. Overlooked, however, is the success of fracking in U.S. oil production. The Associated Press reports the…
Is Steve Harper trying to engineer the breakup of Canada? That might be just what the prime ministerial bully boy accomplishes with his closet trade deal with China. The deal,…
The only thing Steve Harper can count on if he tries to ram through the Northern Gateway pipeline/supertanker project is a united British Columbia determined to stop him. Even our…
A brief note on an otherwise uneventful Saturday. There has been no new material added to the Ethical Oil website since September 10th. The same thing applies to their twitter…
The latest poll out of B.C.: In the survey, respondents were shown a map with the proposed location of the Enbridge Northern Gateway, a new pipeline from Alberta to British…
Or so says Jeffrey Simpson.The Northern Gateway pipeline that Enbridge proposes to build from Alberta’s bitumen oil to the Pacific coast of British Columbia is, for all intents and purposes,…
Globe & Mail columnist Jeffrey Simpson writes that the Enbridge/Harper/China Northern Gateway pipeline proposal is dead – stone cold dead. To survive, the Gateway pipeline would have to push past…
It’s widely accepted that British Columbia lacks the authority to stop the Northern Gateway pipeline. The argument goes that the pipeline proposal would be a matter of federal jurisdiction. Maybe,…
B.C. Premier Christy Clark has lain down five conditions for having any new “heavy oil” pipeline traverse provincial territory. These are: …successful completion of the environmental-review process; world-leading marine and…
A new poll has discovered that British Columbians take bitumen pipelines very, very seriously. In fact, the pipelines come second only to the economy in priority and even ahead of…
Download: earthgauge-podcast-sept13-2012-northerngateway.mp3 I’m excited to be back at CKCU to kick off the second season of Earthgauge Radio! On this the September 13 edition of the program, we hear a…
Tune in to CKCU FM 93.1 tomorrow morning from 7:00-8:00 AM for the launch of the second season of Earthgauge Radio! On tomorrow’s show, I’ll be bringing you two interviews…
Just who is going to own the proposed Northern Gateway bitumen pipeline? Could the totalitarian People’s Republic of China be one of the owners? Enbridge tried to change the subject…
At least if they want me to vote for them. But also because its a solid political decision in advance of 2015. The number of pro-pipeline votes to be had…
