Site C Dam threatens BC’s credit rating: Hudson’s Hope Mayor, Council
The following is a July 15 open letter to Premier Christy Clark from the District of Hudson’s Hope – near the location of the proposed Site C reservoir. Dear Premier…
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Site C Dam: Fort St. John businessman isn’t buying economic promises
Longtime Fort St. John businessman Bob Fedderly isn’t buying the economic benefits touted for the proposed Site C Dam. The owner of Fedderly Transportation sat down with The Common Sense…
RiverBlue doc asks: How dirty are your blue jeans?
“How dirty are your blue jeans?” That’s the question posed by the forthcoming, Vancouver-produced documentary RiverBlue. The film examines the pollution produced by the blue jean manufacturing and tannery sectors,…
Tar sands pollutants contaminate traditional First Nations’ foods: Report
A new study confirms that pollutants from the Alberta tar sands contaminate traditional First Nations’ foods. The post Tar sands pollutants contaminate traditional First Nations’ foods: Report appeared first on…
Fortis, US mull massive Similkameen dam; Where is BC govt?
A popular recreation site, the Similkameen Valley is threatened by dams (Photo: SimilkameenValley.com) By Ken Farquharson The Similkameen River valley provides one of the most popular and scenic travel routes…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Thomas Frank interviews Barry Lynn about the U.S.’ alarming concentration of wealth and power. Henry Blodget thoroughly rebuts the myth that “rich…
Site C dam would hike power bills, drive mills, mines out of business
Read this June 10 column from Judith Lavoie at Demog Canada on the opposition to the proposed Site C Dam from major industrial power users. Major industrial power users in…
Site C Dam: NDP MLA questions govt on First Nations consultation
Doug Donaldson, NDP MLA for the Stikine region, recently called out the BC Liberal government over the proposed Site C Dam and the strong opposition it faces from Treaty 8…
Bag of water.
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Site C Dam is most expensive power option: new study
Read this May 27 story from the Alaska Highway News (via Business in Vancouver) on a new study by the Helios Centre which pegs the proposed Site C Dam as…
Vaughn Palmer: Site C Dam obsession misses alternatives like geothermal
The multi-billion-dollar proposed Site C Dam (artist’s rendering) Read this May 9 Vancouver Sun column by Vaughn Palmer on the ways in which the obsessive fixation of BC Hydro and…
Site C Dam: “The Benefits are clear”…as mud
A section of the Peace Valley that stands to be flooded for Site C Dam (Photo: Andrea Morison) The Joint Review Panel into the $10 Billion* proposed Site C Dam…
NDP Leader Horgan opposes BC’s proposed Site C Dam
Newly-minted BC NDP Leader John Horgan has come out against the proposed Site C Dam VANCOUVER – B.C. New Democratic Party Leader John Horgan is raising concerns about the proposed…
Beach
Boogie boarded today in the Pacific. The water was very cold but I went in a couple times. Supper last night. Tonight was El Indio, a fish taco.
Fracking: Council of Canadians’ ‘Frack Corp’ Fracks Parliament Hill
by: Council of Canadians | Press Release | May 1, 2014 ‘Frack Corp’ fracked Parliament Hill this morning using a 14-foot fracking rig spilling fracking wastewater in the process. The…
Canada Coaching Countries to Waste Water
Canada, a decade ago, used to do more good than bad in the wider world. Now we’re an international wrecking crew, teaching countries how to waste their water supplies on…
Our Acidic Ocean
The last time Earth's oceans were this acidic, a six mile-wide asteroid had just smashed into the Yucatan Peninsula: gizmodo.com/how-global-war…— Extinction Symbol (@extinctsymbol) March 26, 2014 It’s incalculably high what…
Send Water Some Love On World Water Day
Tomorrow is World Water Day; the waters that nurture and sustain life on earth need our protection more than ever. * * World Water Day: Global Synchronized Water Ceremony