Sex, Oil, and Videotape, Ted Genoways, Mother Jones “…Almost every day for more than a year, this had been [John] Bolenbaugh’s daily activity—shooting video of the slow-going cleanup of one of the […]
Dare we trust Enbridge with BC coast?
Signs of protest
Our Coast Our Decision, a slideshow by Robin Rowland
An opportunity for us to learn
30 year-old William Housty’s powerhouse presentation to the National Energy Board’s Enbridge hearings in his community of Bella Bella. William describes the history, language and culture of his people in fascinating detail […]
Vancouver Sun – shilling for dollars
REPLAY: First published Jan 2, 2012 Gordon Hoekstra and Postmedia’s Vancouver Sun present another episode in the ongoing series, Shilling for Corporate Canada: Enbridge is a Canadian success story: “Patrick Daniel, its […]
"Calle a spade by any other name then a spade"
FYI, Erasmus did the title translation long, long ago. Bribery is defined by Black’s Law Dictionary as the offering, giving, receiving, or soliciting of any item of value to influence the actions […]
Questions about oily business aims
Good thing we have The Tyee and other independent media. If we did not, politicians and industrialists would have an unrestricted pass to conduct business in ways that best line their own […]
Gerald Amos on Enbridge’s Northern Gateway
NO APOLOGY FORTHCOMINGby Gerald Amos, January 8, 2012 “Recently there has been a lot of criticism by supporters of the tar sands, and oil industry front groups, of Canadian non-profit organizations who […]
What Enbridge will bring to coastal BC
Oil spill in Dalian, China, Boston Globe July 2010, in the northeastern port city of Dalian, China, two oil pipelines exploded, sending flames hundreds of feet into the air and burning for […]
The press and the pipeline
Have you noticed a lack of fairness and balance in reporting on Northern Gateway by corporate media? It is not accidental. A similar project in the USA has been examined in detail. […]
Economic development whatever the cost!
For me, whatever might be worthwhile in Stephen Harper’s speech is degraded by his choice of location for delivering it. The Prime Minister of Canada flew to Switzerland to join the world’s […]
Links regarding oily pipeline politics
One of our readers supplied links to articles published by DesmogBlog and I moved the links into this separate item. These articles complement and expand on the message I intended in Regulators […]
Enbridge’s empty promises
The Michigan Messenger, Enbridge denies responsibility for oil spill “Despite public promises to compensate residents for losses associated with the summer oil spill, in Calhoun county court Enbridge is arguing that it […]
Shoes, ships and sealing-wax, cabbages and kings
Global TV Noon News aired a report on the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline Sunday. It lasted 40-seconds while they allocated 11 minutes to a segment on cooking fish and five for a […]
Item from The Real Story
Ian Reid’s blog The Real Story published an important article Saturday Jan 7. Noon Sunday, his entire blog was down to some viewers. This might be a meaningless vagary of the Internet or […]
Vancouver Sun practices conscious deceit
Elmer Derrick and Enbridge VP pose in her longhouse IS IT TRUE ELMER DERRICK IS “THE” GITXSAN HEREDITARY CHIEF?Commentary by Merv Ritchie, Terrace Daily, Dec. 11, 2011 This is the claim recently […]
More Enbridge mischief exposed
From: guujaaw [mailto:guujaaw@haidanation.net]Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 2:46 PMSubject: Enbridge December 20, 2011 Enbridge Northern Gateway ProjectJoint Review Panel444 7th Avenue S.W. Calgary, Alberta T2P 0X8 Attention: Secretary to the Joint Review […]
Vancouver Sun and Gordon Hoekstra: FAIL!
“On the left you can see yesterday’s Vancouver Sun cover page the day after more than 60 First Nations announced they will not allow the Enbridge pipeline through their territories, on the […]
Conservation must be our central order of business
Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay theprice of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.(Gifford Pinchot 1865-1946, first Chief of […]
Sham NEB Gateway review continues while dominoes fall
Ordinary folks may think the Kitimat oil port and twin pipeline to Alberta remains uncertain because the joint review panel appointed by the Harper Government’s National Energy Board called for more information. […]
Objectives of statements are less clear than they appear
Liberal leadership candidate Kevin Falcon applauds the federal Red Tape Reduction Committee. No surprise there since it is a program of deception and misdirection, a specialty of Falcon, who claims he reduced […]
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Infill - increased density increases taxable value per unit of area, thereby boosting local govt. revenue. This is a driver.…