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Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Feb 17th, 2012
Bob Plecas has an op-ed piece in the Vancouver Sun – they whose recent papers are celebrating their 100th birthday have carried the art of media masturbation to new heights once thought unreachable. I assume that the editor in charge of its op-ed page, being a Fellow of the far right Fraser Institute, chooses his [...]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Feb 8th, 2012
This from the CBC: Canadian oil and business executives are well-represented in the delegation travelling to China with Prime Minister Stephen Harper, with oil exports expected to be high on the government’s agenda. A delegation assigned to Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver includes eight mining or oil and gas companies. That list of companies includes [...]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Jan 27th, 2012
This is an open letter to NDP leader Adrian Dix and his Energy Critic, John Horgan. It’s time, gentlemen, to pee or get off the pot. The issues of the proposed Enbridge pipelines and tanker traffic on our coast demand your immediate statement of policy. In order that there be no misunderstandings, here are the [...]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Jan 24th, 2012
If there’s one thing above all politicians hate it’s democracy. For God’s sake, we can’t have the rabble have a say in decisions! Let them do this once and we’ll never get to run the province again! They believe that we live in a parliamentary, representative “democracy” which means that we hire people, called representatives, [...]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Jan 13th, 2012
Today, because events are moving so quickly, a twofer for you. First, Premier Clark is in one hell of a jam and it’s scarcely improved with a man who I bet left the inner staff of Attila the Hun to join with Madam Photo-op by name of Ken Boessenkool, who amongst other clients worked as [...]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Jan 8th, 2012
Enbridge is proposing two pipelines to Kitimat BC to take Tar Sands gunk (more politely “bitumen”) to tankers who at 300 per year will take it to China as is, or to the United States for refining, thence China. Today I want to deal with the pipelines only. The horrible consequences of tankers on our [...]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Dec 22nd, 2011
I must say I was surprised to see that Conservative leader John Cummins supports the proposed Enbridge pipeline from the Tar Sands to Kitimat and I have since wondered if that would impact the NDP, the Liberals, both – or anyone. John has never been strong on complicated issues and I wonder if he realizes [...]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Dec 9th, 2011
The paths, inexorably to a meeting point to violence, can only be changed by the senior governments, especially the feds. The cause of these paths are three: 1. the proposed Enbridge oil pipelines to Kitimat, carrying bitumen (sludge from the Tar Sands) mixed with gas (condensate), with one line running the condensate to the Tar [...]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Sep 19th, 2011
This is the third part of a three part series on civil dissent. In the last article I discounted the possibility that any hearing into the Enbridge pipelines or tanker traffic, to and out of Kitimat and Vancouver would dare stop these projects. I considered and rejected, without saying so, any intervention by the federal [...]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Jul 6th, 2011
It doesn’t seem that big a deal when you first read the story on p. B2 of July 5′s Vancouver Sun under the heading ENBRIDGE, TRANSCANADA LEAKS DOMINATE SAFETY BOARD CASES. It outlines 100 different oil and gas pipeline leaks over two years, three quarters of which were the fault of Enbridge and TransCanada. Until [...]
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