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Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Jul 27th, 2015
Desperate people do desperate things. Today I want to talk about Resource Works, the shills for Woodfibre LNG, proposed for Squamish at the head of Howe Sound – BC’s beautiful and southernmost fjord. I’m part of a large group opposed to this plant. Let me, however, make this abundantly clear: Our opposition, contrary to what […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Jul 16th, 2015
We’ve reached the summer doldrums and perhaps that’s a good time to sit back and look at the coming Federal election, if only in general terms. Amazingly, the main issue is exemplified in the story of the “Paddle for the Peace” organization and the ever ham-handed right wing placing all their organizers on the Terrorist […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Jun 20th, 2015
I live on Howe Sound in lovely Lions Bay. I have lived my entire life in British Columbia, growing up in Vancouver and spending much of my boyhood on this lovely fjord. Howe Sound belongs to all of us. It had been all but destroyed by industry until 20 years ago when rehabilitation was started […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Jun 11th, 2015
It’s time to fish or cut bait, folks. We’ve learned that some 200 LNG tankers and barges are slated to use the lower Fraser River and the company, WesPac, doesn’t even feel the public deserves a say through a proper environmental assessment. We’re told by the company that LNG tankers have a 50 year safety record […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Jun 3rd, 2015
Can Tom Mulcair become the next prime minister of Canada? Barely 6 months ago that question would have brought loud guffaws but the Alberta election and recent polls showing the NDP slightly ahead of its two main rivals have reduced the guffaws to nervous coughs. I think Mulcair can do it but he needs BC […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on May 25th, 2015
Do you enjoy being a raw hypocrite? Well, if you’re a taxpayer in Canada that’s what you are because you support raw hypocrisy every day in the various hearings on environmental matters that take place. I’ve written in the past, from personal experience, about environmental assessments of independent power projects (IPPs), the environmental disgraces of […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on May 19th, 2015
Dr. David Suzuki, in a recent column well worth reading, talks about a change in attitude across the country – changes with First Nations, increasing environmentalism, a new government in Alberta. Big changes are happening everywhere. I wonder how many British Columbians have thought about the disgraceful attitude of industry and government towards our environment and […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on May 6th, 2015
Somehow, the day after it happened, the election of the NDP in Alberta doesn’t seem quite as astonishing as it would have say, a year ago. Back then, one would have been in danger of certification as mad to predict that the Tories, after some 43 years, would be turfed out of what had become […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on May 2nd, 2015
Except briefly, let’s avoid environmental questions about Woodfibre LNG for today and concentrate on fiscal matters. Even if Woodfibre LNG was an environmental bonus to Howe Sound and the surrounding communities; even if it was clean as a whistle, its plant and accoutrements safe as a church, and the tanker traffic absolutely guaranteed by God […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Apr 14th, 2015
I say three cheers for Premier Christy Clark and Mayor Gregor Robertson of Vancouver. The verbal assault by the Premier on the federal government was more than justified by recent events and just happens to be a move that is always popular amongst many British Columbians, frankly including me, whenever Ottawa behaves like Ottawa – which […]
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