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Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Apr 14th, 2013
The news out of the Joint Review Panel looking into the Enbridge pipeline should have a profound effect on us all. One of the conditions is a requirement that Enbridge carry close to $1 billion in insurance, plus $100 million on hand to cover losses from spills. I find this interesting, since normally an assessment [...]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Mar 27th, 2013
Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. It looks like the gods are doing just that with the Premier and her government. What I’ve seen the past several weeks forces me to ask, Madame Premier: Is that thing on your shoulders just for photo-ops? For starters. Is the Kitsilano Search and Rescue [...]
Posted in The Tyee on Dec 27th, 2012
Is a May election that puts in power true defenders of BC’s natural bounty. To me the dominant issue before all others going into May’s provincial election is the environment. Fiscal fudge-ups can be fixed as can most bad policy. But environmental damage — be it due to fish farms, pipelines, tankers, Site C or [...]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Nov 14th, 2012
When a clock strikes 13, you can never trust it again. So it must be for anyone who lies about information he is using to back up a serious scientific statement upon which a great deal is at stake. Mark Hume had an article in Sunday’s Globe and Mail BC Edition which, in a world [...]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Sep 29th, 2012
The joke used to be, “How can you tell when a lawyer isn’t telling the truth? The answer is when you see his lips move”. Now substitute politician and you’ve got it right. Premier Clark will just happen to be in Edmonton next week and hopes that the Alberta Premier would like to have a [...]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Aug 29th, 2012
Today is dedicated to the 51% the polls say could be swayed by evidence and support the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline proposal. To recap, The pipeline proposed runs 1,100 kms. through the Rockies, the Rocky Mountain Trench, through the Coast Range getting to the ocean at Kitimat thence by tanker through the Douglas Channel to [...]
Posted in The Tyee on Aug 20th, 2012
We are treated by Enbridge to full page ads extolling the pipeline company’s devotion to the environment and safety. They are, dear fellow British Columbians, not to be believed, as I propose now to demonstrate. Using data from Enbridge’s own reports, the Polaris Institute reports that 804 spills occurred on Enbridge pipelines between 1999 and 2010. [...]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Aug 20th, 2012
Gordon Gibson used to be Liberal until he fell in with those proponents of consensual slavery, The Fraser Institute. While I find myself in great sorrow saying this, Gibson has become a all out capitalist suck. Witness his article today on the op-ed page of the Globe and Mail as he talks about David Black’s [...]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Aug 15th, 2012
The tide seems to be turning against the Enbridge Pipeline but we must take great care not to lose by winning. Industry seems to be talking alternative routes by using rail or other methods. My old friend Tex Enemark weighs in this morning in an op-ed in the Sun(August 15) and makes several points – [...]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Aug 1st, 2012
Today is a day of perplexity. I’m perplexed at a notice I received asking me to join a protest against a proposed Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) pipeline near Smithers. This line is designed to transport northeast BC natural gas from a junction point at Summit Lake, north of Prince George, to Kitimat for processing into [...]
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