Posts from ‘Commentary’ - Page 32
Summer in B.C.: rockstars, roughnecks, rights and title
Kai Nagata, Energy & Democracy Director: How can you tell a campaign is starting to pick up serious momentum? I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to notice ...
Multi-faith Partners Unite for Tar Sands Healing Walk
I came back a changed woman after my river pilgrimage to the tar sands last September and was more determined than ever to take action. After sharing my story ...
Harper and Enbridge’s massive angry inch problem
It’s 2007 and we’ve been running our No Tanker campaign for a couple years. Our Oil Tankers are Loonie campaign had gone viral attracting press and supporters from around ...
After the speech he gave yesterday, approving Northern Gateway would be an act of utter betrayal
Can you imagine Stephen Harper saying this? “Before politics I spent most of my life working in First Nations communities – in Northern Ontario and in fact across Canada, ...
B.C. government secretly approves coal permitting amendment
Thanks to a dedicated Beyond Coal supporter from Burnaby, we learned that the provincial ministry of energy and mines secretly approved a permit amendment allowing Texada Quarries to expand ...
Kitimat Cough
It’s week two now in a whole new reality. Where? Rio Tinto Alcan’s Kitimat Modernization Project. Packed into a crowded work camp for the first time in my life, ...
Let’s give Enbridge a judo lesson
Advance polls open in Kitimat next Wednesday, and Enbridge is doing everything it can to buy the vote. Our friends on the ground in the B.C. town of 9,000 ...
Enbridge loses two key allies in two days
With Alison Redford gone and Joe Oliver shuffled off the pipeline file, the case is weakening for federal approval of the Northern Gateway proposal. Redford was the Premier of ...
On the road again
“I’m glad we’re getting started small and then growing big. We’re going to grow fast here.” That’s what one first-time organizer from Prince George said to us after we ...