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The Day a Federal Panel Overruled B.C. — And Nobody Noticed
From DeSmog Canada’s Emma Gilchrist On the afternoon of Dec. 19th, as the National Energy Board’s recommendations on Enbridge’s oil tanker and pipeline proposal for B.C. were released, I ...
British Columbians will stand up against risky oil tanker and pipeline recommendation
Media Release For immediate release 19/12/2013 Contact: Edie Irons, Communications Director (250) 370-9930 ext. 31 British Columbians will stand up against risky oil tanker and pipeline recommendation This ...
Frequently asked questions about Dogwood’s new strategy
What exactly is the plan I’m being asked to support? Dogwood is planning a two-step process to prepare for a potential citizen’s initiative to give British Columbians decision-making power ...
Thousands Demand New Assessment of U.S. Coal Export Proposal
In the past 30 days nearly 2,000 supporters of the Dogwood Initiative have submitted comments to Port Metro Vancouver rejecting its environmental impact assessment (EIA) of the proposal to ...
Dogwood Reacts to Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Project Application
This morning, US energy company Kinder Morgan filed a project application with the National Energy Board (NEB) to build a new pipeline to transport diluted bitumen from Alberta to ...
A river pilgrimage to the oil sands
Six of us set off on a pilgrimage along the Athabasca River this fall, starting at its headlands in Alberta’s ice fields. It’s the largest energy extraction project on ...
November 5 telephone town hall
On Nov. 5 2013, Dogwood Initiative hosted a telephone town hall offering people the opportunity to hear updates from campaign directors as well as ask questions in a radio ...
Coal exports from U.S. sent via B.C. shorten lives in China
A tired and offensive argument regularly used by the coal industry inspired me to write this piece. It goes something like this: selling coal to China is helping alleviate ...
What’s it going to be? Effective or "world-leading"?
Marven Robinson, a Councillor with the Gitga’at Nation and renowned guide, told me of a group of Europeans he recently guided into the Great Bear Rainforest. After much walking ...