A Dilbit Primer: How It’s Different from Conventional Oil, Lisa Song, Inside Climate News, June 26, 2012 “Bitumen extracted from tar sands has the consistency of peanut butter and must be diluted […]
Little research on effects of diluted bitumen
Rafe Mair raises his wise voice
No Souls but Lots of Cash, Rafe Mair, The Tyee, June 25, 2012– BC’s crucial environmental battles pit citizens against politicians’ love of corporate money. “Corporations have a legal body but no […]
Nikiforuk examines Enbridge
Spill Crisis: ‘Whatever, We’re Going Home’, Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee “…damning U.S. regulatory reports portraying Calgary-based Enbridge as a company that ignored safety protocols and warning alarms as well as the recommendations […]
Une artiste qui dérange
Harper government targeted artist for her green conscience, internal documents reveal, Vancouver Observer, June 12, 2012 “Franke James, a Canadian artist and environmental advocate blacklisted by the Harper government, has obtained internal […]
Finding fibre for China
Timber panel eyes logging protected areas, Wendy Stueck, The Globe and Mail, Jun 12, 2012 “A committee looking for ways to boost B.C.’s dwindling store of timber is looking at logging protected […]
Message to the Harper government
IMF chief Christine Lagarde warns world risks triple crisis, The Guardian, June 12, 2012 “Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund, has warned that the world risks a triple crisis […]
For climate change skeptics
A comment by Tom Rand, the resident clean tech advisor at MaRS discovery district in Toronto. His life’s work is pushing the needle on carbon and he presents some very practical ways […]
Welcome to Alberta
“Alberta’s expansive wilderness boasts some of the most spectacular scenery and authentic outdoor experiences you can imagine… “With its vast blue skies, magnificent Canadian Rockies, rolling fields of wheat, boreal forests and […]
Pollution monitors kicked out the door
What would your choice be? Would you provide chauffeurs on standby 16 hours a day so that every cabinet minister could avoid the shame of riding in a taxi but still return […]
Liberals legislate silence from environmentalists
Virus sparks quarantine on B.C. salmon farm, Curt Petrovich, CBC News, May 17, 2012 B.C.’s salmon farming industry is on high alert after the discovery of a lethal fish virus [Infectious Hematopoietic […]
From Doug Pyper
Hi Friends, I just sent a message to Premier Christy Clark recommending that the Government of British Columbia inform the Government of Canada that the province is now exercising its right, with […]
Recognizing real radicals
Laurence Britt’s Patterns of national behaviour and abuse of power #3: Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause… Bill C-38, Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist, May 9, 2012: “…Over the past few months, […]
Need we say more?
Link to The Michigan Messenger Be sure to read: Dare we trust Enbridge with BC coast?
Record of lethargic indifference
Considering amounts extracted from taxpayers for BC Ferries brilliant management team, imagine the tab if they’d been competent and successful. David Hahn departed to enjoy one of the most costly pensions ever […]
The "path to sustainability"
The words are code, of course, for celebration of globalism where business and capital dominate unions and labour and holdings of wealth become concentrated, where law and order supersedes civil rights, where […]
Today in the Legislature
I urge you to read through this material provided by Gary Coons, NDP Critic for B.C. Ferries and Coastal Communities: In the bc legislature we asked questions about the spill in Gitga’at […]
Dare we trust Enbridge with BC coast?
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 […]
Guest post from Farmland Defence League
BC Liberals Pat Pimm and Blair Lekstrom have proposed a delegation agreement for the Peace River Valley, a move that is intended to free them of political responsibility for development of the […]
Send message to protect environmental reviews
Today’s budget announcements make it clear that long-standing legal protections for the environment, including environmental reviews of major industrial projects like mines and oil pipelines will soon be rolled back or eliminated. […]
We can do better… we must do better
Driving me to blog about public issues is passion for my grandchildren to inherit a better world. Unfortunately, the more I learn about the roads we travel, the more pessimistic I become […]
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Blair Fix at _Economics from the Top Down_ also wrote two very good papers on the converion of housing into…