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5 reasons shipping oil to Asia is not in the national interest
One of the more startling takeaways from Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver’s open letter is how the government has confused “corporate interests” as being one and the same as ...
A Wild Start to 2012
January 2012 is set to go down in the history books as a turning point in the battle to keep oil supertankers out of B.C.’s inside coastal waters. It ...
How increasing oil exports hurts the manufacturing sector
Retired Professor of Economics Reimar Kroecher recently wrote me this e-mail: If Enbridge gets permission to build its pipeline from the Tar Sands to Kitimat, and the volume of ...
Predictions for 2012
Never make predictions, especially about the future. – Casey Stengel, Hall of Fame Baseball Manager Almost every year when I get a new calendar I sit down to ponder ...
Dogwood Initiative reacts to Keystone XL decision
In response to U.S. President Barack Obama’s announcement today that he is rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline as proposed, Emma Gilchrist, Communications Director for Dogwood Initiative, said the ...
Dogwood Initiative reacts to Harper’s “foreign money” comments
Emma Gilchrist, Communications Director, for the Dogwood Initiative made the following comments in response to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Natural Resource Minister Joe Oliver’s remarks about “foreign money” ...
British Columbians Worried about Foreign Investment in Canadian Resources, Not Philanthropic Support for Environmental Groups
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA (Jan. 9, 2012) – A poll released today by BC environmental groups shows that almost 75 percent of British Columbians are worried about foreign investment ...
Dogwood Initiative reacts to Enbridge Northern Gateway poll
In response to polling results on the Northern Gateway pipeline released on behalf of Enbridge by Ipsos Reid today, Eric Swanson, Campaign Director at Dogwood Initiative, said the following: ...
Hope for the new year
Anger. Frustration. Despair. These are the feelings many of us have when we read the news these days. If it’s not our prime minister vowing to send oil to ...
