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Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Jul 27th, 2010
Growth is a self fulfilling prophecy. For as fast as we expand to the outer limit, that outer limit is handled by developers demanding and getting more land to handle the growth, establishing yet another outer limit. Read article at The Common Sense Canadian: The addiction to growth
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Jul 22nd, 2010
Gerry Hummel has been recruited as a resident cartoonist by The Common Sense Canadian. Here is his first contribution.
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Jul 19th, 2010
The environmental issues which have emerged as important in the last decade in BC are the fish farms and private power and both issues have been largely ignored by the media. In days of yore, Fotheringham and Nichols in the papers, Jack Webster and Gary Bannerman on radio, and Cameron Bell and Keith Bradbury at […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Mar 28th, 2010
Excerpt: “What madness this all is! Wasn’t the idea that we’d wean ourselves off oil and concentrate our efforts and our money on substitutes? Can’t we see that by extracting oil that can only be viable if the price of oil is near $100 a barrel that we’re in fact making the high price of […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Mar 26th, 2010
This province is facing the battle of all battles over the using of Fish Lake and over Enbridge’s proposed Gateway pipeline, which would carry oil from the oil sands to the B.C. coast for export by tanker to Asian markets. I want to deal with Fish Lake in this column but will deal with […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Mar 18th, 2010
In this province, those who care for the environment must be their own media. Tom Paine, the “media” catalyst for the American Revolution, rallied Americans with the stirring words “these are the times that try men’s souls”. Are these words applicable to British Columbia, its governments and the farmed fish issue?” I say, clearly yes, […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Mar 11th, 2010
Rafe tells us that the provincial government is again considering slaughtering wolves from helicopters. He tells us why this was a bad idea in 1979, and it’s a bad idea now. Article at The Common Sense Canadian: Why Are We Still Afraid of the Big, Bad Wolf?
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Mar 3rd, 2010
Here’s an Article by Rafe at The Common Sense Canadian which tells us that even the former Attorney General of Norway and the owner of the world’s largest salmon farming company agree that salmon farms must be moved out of migration routes.
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