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Posted in The Tyee on Aug 9th, 2009
Memo to media: time to expose Campbell’s fallacy Last week I spoke of the appalling mainstream media in BC and how it let Premier Gordon Campbell get away with murder of our rivers and the ecologies they support. The exception and a major one is Mark Hume of the Globe and Mail whose BC section, […]
Posted in Save Our Rivers on Aug 7th, 2009
We at Save Our Rivers Society are girding up our loins for the continued battle to save our rivers from the capitalist predation being undertaken with all the help Campbell & Co can give. I’ve been asked given the Liberals won the last election giving them four more years to do as they wish, we […]
Posted in Save Our Rivers, The Tyee on Aug 2nd, 2009
Those who have followed my checkered career will know of my intense dislike of the CanWest dailies in our town, The Vancouver (Seriously West Coast) Sun and The Province. They are simply lousy papers who play down stories contrary to the government’s interest or policy and save their criticisms until after an election is safely […]
Posted in Save Our Rivers on Jul 26th, 2009
The Campbell government is a collection of dissemblers such that you can’t take anything they say seriously. The so-called “harmonized sales tax” is the latest example. And isn’t “harmonized” such a lovely warm and fuzzy word? In fact it is nothing more than a raising of the sales tax but to tell people that requires […]
Posted in The Tyee on Jul 13th, 2009
I was having lunch (on me as usual) with my editor last week and we were wondering aloud why the Campbell government would possibly intentionally destroy our rivers and BC Hydro, a power company that’s the envy of North America. I mentioned to Dave that I believed it was a matter of ideology based on […]
Posted in Save Our Rivers on Jul 13th, 2009
I write this in the eve of leaving for Castlegar thence Nelson for a big rally Wednesday the 15th. The People are up in arms about the Glacier-Houser project which was given a Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) “public hearing” 10 days ago. Because the project itself – and all private rivers schemes – seem so […]
Posted in Save Our Rivers on Jul 6th, 2009
Premier Campbell … if you think that the ravishing of our rivers for private power with private profits off public property will be tolerated because of the election result you are very mistaken indeed. As John Paul Jones said, “we’ve just begun to fight” – as the recent overflow meeting in Kaslo demonstrated. You were […]
Posted in The Tyee on Jun 2nd, 2009
Notes on Huntington’s win, James’s loss, Campbell’s heir. First, heartiest congratulations to Vicki Huntington in Delta. Liberal Attorney-General Wally Oppal said he didn’t realize how angry people were at the government. If the previous MLA, Val Roddick, had bothered to turn up to any of the rallies against overhead transmission lines or the new highway […]
Posted in The Tyee on May 19th, 2009
I tried to raise key election issues. Some big enviro groups, and most reporters, looked away. As the provincial election unfolded, we saw serious rifts exposed in the environmental movement. Where does it go now after the massive Campbell win, ratifying his plans to ravage our seas and rivers? In the vacuum created by that […]
Posted in Save Our Rivers on May 11th, 2009
As we are in the last few meters of the finish line permit me put the position of Save Our Rivers Society. You the taxpayer, through your own company BC Hydro, are financing (to date $30 BILLION) private power producers to ruin our rivers to create energy we don’t need1 to export that power to […]
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