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9 Reasons to Oppose the Northern Gateway Pipeline
These are not even all my reasons, but they’ll do for a start. Fossil fuels cause climate change. The heatwaves of Europe, Russia and the United States, droughts in the US, Australia and East Africa, floods in Canada, the US, Australia, Pakistan, China and Colombia, wildfires in Canada, the US and Europe are the result […]
Oil Spills and Bad Math Mean No to Enbridge
June 10, 2012
We don’t want the Northern Gateway pipeline to pass through British Columbia because, frankly, it is not in our civilization’s interest to take any of this oil out of the ground at all. We already have too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and too much damage has already been done. However, there are other […]
Ethical Tar, Ethical Disconnect
January 20, 2012
Have you noticed that Conservative talking points about opposition to tar sands oil and pipeline construction are identical to those used by the organization “Ethical Oil”? (“Ethical Oil,” a newspeak naming that Orwell would be proud of.) Here’s why. And you might be interested in seeing Kathryn Marshall on CBC not answer, again and again, whether […]
BC Indigenous Nations Oppose Tar Sands Pipeline – Declaration
December 6, 2011
Save the Fraser Declaration WE THE UNDERSIGNED INDIGENOUS NATIONS OF THE FRASER RIVER WATERSHED DECLARE: We have inhabited and governed our territories within the Fraser watershed, according to our laws and traditions, since time immemorial. Our relationship with the watershed is ancient and profound, and our inherent Title and Rights and legal authority over these […]
Oil Can Bill – a doggerel ode to corporate law
May 18, 2010
Note: Enbridge, which is proposing to build a pipeline across BC crossing 700 streams and endangering our coastline, has arranged it so that the company that builds the pipeline is corporately separate from the company that extracts the oil, ensuring that in the case of a major spill–and spills are inevitable–Canadian taxpayers, not Enbridge, will […]
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An Informal Chronology of the Aboriginal Land Question in BC
Father Theo's Blog 
August 28, 2012
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