Posts by Eric Swanson - Page 3

Have an oil tanker or pipeline question? We’ll answer it.

February 1, 2012 | 

  With Enbridge’s tanker and pipeline project to the West Coast being in the news so much lately, many Canadians are learning about the issue for the first time. ...

How increasing oil exports hurts the manufacturing sector

January 20, 2012 | 

Retired Professor of Economics Reimar Kroecher recently wrote me this e-mail: If Enbridge gets permission to build its pipeline from the Tar Sands to Kitimat, and the volume of ...

Save the Fraser Declaration gets new signatories

December 5, 2011 | 

On December 1, 2011, several new signatories were added to the Save the Fraser declaration, a formal declaration banning oil sands pipelines and supertankers through the traditional territories of ...

Keystone XL blocked, Gateway still against the wall

November 10, 2011 | 

The U.S. State Department’s decision, supported by President Barack Obama, to send the Keystone XL pipeline back for further public review will have Canadian oil interests and commentators clamouring ...

Stepping up to the mic

October 14, 2011 | 

The No Tankers network just helped sign up the largest group of people ever in Canadian history to speak at a pipeline hearing. Over the course of about 30 ...

Today is the last day to register to speak at Enbridge hearings

September 20, 2011 | 

So far, 1,440 people on 243 teams have signed up as part of our Mob the Mic action to make official statements of opposition to the review panel looking ...

126 Teams Created to Oppose Enbridge

September 20, 2011 | 

So far, over 800 people have signed up as part of our Mob the Mic action to make official statements of opposition to the review panel looking at Enbridge’s ...

Enbridge didn’t do it right

August 15, 2011 | 

I was pretty young when Wilmer Miller, my grandfather on my mom’s side, died of cancer. He was a farmer in southeast Saskatchewan, a soft-spoken man of integrity. About ...

Why Joe Oliver is rocking the boat

July 21, 2011 | 

Canada’s federal Minister of Natural Resources, Joe Oliver, came out of the closet this week by making public comments unambiguously supportive of Enbridge’s proposed Northern Gateway project. Shocking? Yes ...