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Spill cleanup plans do not buy consent on Gateway
Newly announced federal measures to focus on oil spill cleanup and prevention do not equate to consent from British Columbians to build the Northern Gateway Pipeline, a Dogwood Initiative ...
Is Clark trying to get to “yes”?
Christy Clark has been saying it since July 2012: to win her support as Premier, any bitumen transport project to the B.C. coast would have to meet five key ...
Six Dogwood teams hit their targets
It’s working. Dogwood Initiative and its allies are building what is already the largest nonpartisan political organizing network in British Columbia. We’re conservative and liberal, urban and rural – ...
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 ...
Following Kitimat victory, Dogwood launches LetBCvote.ca
Despite spending unlimited money on advertising and flying in canvassers from Calgary, Enbridge’s crude oil pipeline and tanker proposal has been handed a resounding electoral defeat by the people ...
Let BC Vote!
It was a battle between David and Goliath. Sure enough, David won. For weeks, a small troop of local volunteers from Douglas Channel Watch were knocking on doors and ...
The Best of #AdsForKitimat
This post was originally posted on April 2, and updated with more ads on April 12, 2014. Last week stories of Enbridge employees descending upon Kitimat to sway the ...
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, ...
Too young to vote? Maybe not.
How many times have you heard someone say that politicians are “acting like children”? It’s a tired old cliche and frankly, it’s insulting to children. I have the good ...