Song of the Watermelon: It’s the Climate, Stupid!
Not two weeks since the federal government’s long-anticipated approval of the Northern Gateway pipeline, the magnitude of the obstacles faced by the project are becoming clearer by the day. There is...
View ArticleCowichan Conversations: First Nations ‘ecstatic’ over historic Supreme Court...
Richard Hughes- Blogger The days of PM Steve Harper running roughshod over First Nations peoples, their land and culture may well have come to an abrupt end! Of course the mistreatment and...
View ArticleSusan on the Soapbox: A Gift from Chief Justice McLachlin: The Tsilhqot’in...
On June 26, 2014, in a unanimous decision of the Supreme Court of Canada, Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin gave the First Nations (and the rest of Canada) a treasure map. Chief Justice McLachlin It...
View ArticleTHE CANADIAN PROGRESSIVE: Peter McKay and this week’s Canada politics news...
Justice Minister Peter MacKay, Supreme Court of Canada, First Nations and the rest of the politics news which made the headlines in Canada this past week. The post Peter McKay and this week’s Canada...
View ArticleCowichan Conversations: Rafe: With fracking, tankers “world-class safety” is...
It is great to read more from Rafe Mair once again. He is still on the mend but has come a long way and is reading and writing once again. I had believed every word from our Premier but Rafe has set me...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Dam Line 9: Protest Occupation of Line 9...
In Ontario, peaceful activists have stopped construction work on an Enbridge Line 9 pipeline site, arguing that Line 9 posed “a danger to people, animals, land, and water.” The post Dam Line 9: Protest...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Activists Refuse to Leave Enbridge’s Line 9...
On Tuesday, peaceful “Dam Line 9″ activists occupying an Enbridge Line 9 pipeline construction site in southwestern Ontario defied a police deadline to leave. The post Activists Refuse to Leave...
View ArticleEnvironmental Law Alert Blog: The Enbridge Pipeline & Tankers Project: Dead...
Thursday, September 18, 2014 Northern Gateway’s President, John Carruthers, now accepts that the start date for the Enbridge Pipeline and Tankers Project – which Enbridge had expected in 2018 – is...
View ArticleThe Disaffected Lib: RCMP + CSIS – Add Water and Stir. Voila, the Stasi Lives...
They were East Germany’s dreaded secret police. They spied on ordinary East Germans, tapped their phones, intercepted their mail, assessed their ‘reliability’, used informants, kept dossiers on...
View ArticlePostArctica: Coastal Tar Sands – Journey To Deleted Islands
What happens when a major corporation wants to build an oil pipeline over land to the west coast where it will be loaded on to supertankers that have to navigate some very narrow inlets to pick up...
View ArticleThe Disaffected Lib: Whether You Support Pipelines or Not, Here’s Something...
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. In...
View ArticleCowichan Conversations: Provinces Have No Right to Pipeline...
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger It seems that Christy Clark and her BC Liberal Party of Pipeline pushers have been blowing smoke according to Dwight Newman. Dwight Newman is a senior fellow of the...
View ArticleBigCityLib Strikes Back: Enbridge Spills
One in a continuing series. Their playing Regina this time. But don’t worry, the NEB is on the case.
View ArticlePolitics and its Discontents: Enbridge Spill
I’m sure the company will spin this 262,000 litre oil spill in Regina as a ‘good news’ story. You decide. You can read additional information here. Recommend this Post
View Articlereeves report: 2014 — Canada’s Year of the Pipeline
Keystone XL wasn’t the only pipeline project to rankle Canadians in 2014. WIDESPREAD PUBLIC DEBATE on building vast networks of snaking energy pipelines throughout Canada dominated the country’s...
View ArticleCowichan Conversations: Obama Vetoes Bill Pushing Pipeline Approval
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger In one of Washington’s worst kept secrets President Barack Obama confirmed earlier indications of his opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline proposal. This is huge and...
View ArticleNorthern Insight / Perceptivity: Would 7¢ fines deter improper acts of...
The National Energy Board penalized Enbridge Pipelines Inc. $16,000 in February and $264,000 in March 2015 for four separate incidents in western Canada. The Harper Government set the maximum penalty...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. - Jordan Brennan discusses the utter failure of past trade agreements to live up to their promises, making it all the more unclear why we should be prepared to accept...
View ArticleAccidental Deliberations: What you know in the PMO
Obviously, the revelation that Mike Duffy saw his job in the Senate as including a role as a publicly-funded lobbyist for the climate denial movement raises a whole new set of questions about the Cons’...
View ArticleSusan on the Soapbox: Boycott Tim Hortons? Seriously??
The recent media frenzy generated by Tim Hortons’ decision to pull the Enbridge ads off their in-store Tims TV monitors almost drove Ms Soapbox to drink (G&Ts not Tims double double). Then she...
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