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Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Dec 20th, 2016
This week I said I would talk about Site C but little did I know what I had taken on. I spent nearly a day and a half with stuff that wouldn’t likely be in the article but knew I needed to read. After devouring an enormous pile of material which I’d rather not have, […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Dec 14th, 2016
Beyond doubt, British Columbia must get involved in two separate and substantial actions of civil disobedience, one with Site C and the other with the proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline. Civil disobedience runs against the grain of many people but I beg you to hear me out because we have reached the point where there is […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Feb 4th, 2016
You will, I hope, overlook my coarse language, because I am really pissed off and have been for some time, the slow burn reaching a raging conflagration when I read a quote from the premier which I will give you in a moment. I am an environmentalist and have been for many years and you’re […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Jun 13th, 2013
I want to clarify my position on the proposed Site C Dam: I AM AGAINST IT. One of the troubles in this business is that one comments on many aspects of the environment and can have a word or two or a line taken out of context – as happened with a column of mine […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Sep 9th, 2012
The NDP are getting a free ride – at least they certainly are on the energy file. I must ask again: Why are they not condemning the proposed twinning of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Pipeline from the Alberta Tar Sands to Vancouver? All the arguments that prevail against the Enbridge line apply to Kinder Morgan, […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Aug 13th, 2012
In Part 2 of Rafe Mair’s July 2012 interview of economist Erik Andersen, the two cover the plan to build Liquefied Natural Gas plants on BC’s west coast – to sell natural gas to Asia – and the proposed Site C Dam. Says Andersen, “Site C is a loser of a project and we don’t […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on May 30th, 2011
We at the Common Sense Canadian will be dealing with the Site C project in some depth and from the outset we would like to acknowledge the tremendous work and research done by our colleague, well known economist Erik Andersen, who cut his professional teeth dealing with government spending. I would like to test a […]
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