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Your coal export questions answered
1) B.C. doesn’t currently have any coal-burning power plants. Why should I be worried about coal? Many parts of the world, including B.C., have stopped burning coal to create ...
The woman behind the Burns Lake billboard
When Gwyndolyn Nicholas replaced a billboard on the side of her Burns Lake health foods store with a new one earlier this month, she never imagined the fuss it ...
Coal campaign heats up: a month in the life of Dogwood’s new coal campaigner
For more than two years now Dogwood Initiative has been quietly gearing up to take on another fossil fuel threat to our air, land and water: coal. While our ...
Blacklisted activist fights back with chilling censorship story
In 2011, Canadian author and artist Franke James found herself at the heart of a bizarre and alarming series of events when she discovered the federal government had mysteriously ...
BC Party Positions on Oil Tankers
BC Liberals Summary: The BC Liberals have rejected Enbridge’s Northern Gateway proposal and are withholding judgment on Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain expansion proposal. In Detail: The BC Liberals have ...
Why Premier Clark said ‘No’ to Enbridge
Lots of people, particularly Eastern pundits, were surprised by B.C. Premier Clark’s decision to formally reject Enbridge’s oil tanker and pipeline proposal to ship Alberta crude oil through B.C. ...
Well, that’s not what we expected
By now, you’ve no doubt heard the news about the Liberals’ surprise victory in the B.C. election. Enbridge and Kinder Morgan may be heaving a sigh of relief. However, ...
We’re on the radio
In less than 24 hours the Dogwood community came together and donated enough money to buy up every last radio spot on Vancouver radio station CKNW. This is the ...
Why Clark’s five conditions are nothing but a smoke screen
The vast majority of British Columbians oppose the expansion of oil tankers off our coast. Our jobs, our salmon and killer whales, our sense of ourselves and our future ...