Liberals have been bulldozing barriers and slashing red tape for more than a decade. Who can forget: “Red Tape Reduction Task Force” of 2001 to recommend priorities for the elimination of regulations […]
Public land with full access now privatized
Rivers: "Run of" or "Ruin of" – a choice
Message from Gwen Barlee, one of this province’s most honourable preservationists: “The Kokish is a wild river on Vancouver Island that is home to Dolly Varden, cutthroat trout, 5 species of wild […]
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 […]
Downstream, from Babelgum
http://www.babelgum.com/embed/3015242 The first original production by and for Babelgum, Downstream focuses on the controversy surrounding the development of Alberta’s oil sands. This beautifully photographed documentary is an eye-opening investigation into one of […]
Ignore this if you don’t believe in science
From Forbes, by Dr. Peter H. Gleick, co-founder and President of the Pacific Institute in Oakland, California. He is an internationally recognized climate and water expert with M.S. and Ph.D. from the […]
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 […]
Amazing
Yosemite Time-Lapse Video, from Earthjustice.org Yosemite HD from Project Yosemite on Vimeo. “Everyone knows that Yosemite National Park is one of America’s most beautiful places. Half Dome, El Capitan, Yosemite Falls, and […]
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 […]
Foreign funding of environmentalists?
In a demonstration of ultimate irony, Ethical Oil, which shills for the international petroleum industry, complains about environmental groups receiving a tiny portion of their funding from outside Canada. Where does the […]
Fort Chip people don’t believe in ‘ethical oil’
CKNW’s morning show featured Fraser Institute alum Kathryn Mitrow Marshall, who is now labouring for Ethical Oil, an ironically named lobby group with close ties to the Conservative Party of Canada and, […]
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 […]
Murphy’s laws always apply
Control system failed ahead of BC Ferry crash, Andrew MacLeod, The Tyee, Dec. 21, 2011 A problem with the Coastal Inspiration’s control system may have led to yesterday’s crash at Duke Point, […]
New pipelines hurt Canadian consumers
Cushing Oklahoma is a price settlement point for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) light crude oil and the town proclaims itself to be the “Pipeline Crossroads of the World,” However, petroleum stored there […]
Ethical Smoke – Replay
If dumping megatonnes of extra carbon dioxide into earth’s atmosphere produces ethical tar sands oil, I suppose eco-friendly ethical cigarettes are plausible too. Santa Fe Natural Tobacco Co., a subsidiary of R.J. […]
What is Coke doing with Koch
From the Center for Media and Democracy’s PR Watch What is Coca-Cola doing behind closed doors with Koch Industries at the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)? The Center for Media and Democracy […]
The master of red tape reduction
Humanists associate Dick Cheney with war crimes but his legacy of malevolence is broader. In 2005, the U.S. Congress passed legislation exempting hydraulic fracturing from oversight under the Safe Drinking Water Act. […]
Taking on Goliath
Salt Spring Forum and Salt Spring Island Conservancy hosted noted western Canadian journalist Andrew Nikiforuk Wednesday to hear details of his new book, Empire of the Beetle. It is an examination of “how human folly and a […]
Liberal scorn for sustainability
After examining Mihlar’s collection of writings, one may conclude that he holds a senior newspaper position, not for cogent analysis or deft word construction, but for reliable parroting of talking points from obscurantist ‘research’ facilities. Mihlar is not one to provide graceful penetration of complicated economic questions. Instead, we get repetition of chatter from the right-wing information machine.
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 […]
in-sights.ca 
Blair Fix at _Economics from the Top Down_ also wrote two very good papers on the converion of housing into…