Posts by Eric Swanson - Page 9
Royal Bank Target of New Campaign
Some snow had fallen overnight in Vancouver, and though the streets were clear by morning the chill of it remained, penetrating painfully into hands and feet. A group of ...
Tar Sands and Tankers Part 1: Our Abundant Coast
Enbridge Inc, a Calgary-based pipeline company, wants to bring tar sands tankers to British Columbia’s north coast. This opening segment in Dogwood Initiative’s 4 part series will ...
Tar Sands and Tankers Part 2: Albertan Ambitions
Enbridge Inc, a Calgary-based pipeline company, wants to bring tar sands tankers to British Columbia’s coast. In this, the second in a series of four videos by ...
Tar Sands and Tankers Part 3: The Exxon Valdez
Enbridge Inc, a Calgary-based pipeline company, wants to bring tar sands tankers to British Columbia’s coast. In this, the third in a series of four videos by ...
Tar Sands and Tankers Part 4: Modeling a BC Spill
Enbridge Inc, a Calgary-based pipeline company, wants to bring tar sands tankers to British Columbia’s coast. In this, the last in a series of four videos by ...
Switch Banks to Slow Climate Change
Recap The satisfACTION post on Dec 18th invited readers to add their support to the 5 Point Action Plan of the newly minted ‘Citizens Concerned About Coalbed Methane’. Hundreds ...
Twitching to Get Some Action
Recap The satisfACTION post on Dec 9th gave readers the opportunity to make a difference by attending a rally opposing the province’s inconsistent actions on coalbed methane, or by ...
Coalbed Methane Rallies in Fernie and Princeton
Recapping The Call-In The last satisfACTION post gave an account of a recent issue ‘call-in’, where hundreds and hundreds of people across BC and Alberta picked up the phone ...
WFP Asks for Pay-Day Loan
This blog is in response to this news article, which announces Western Forest Product’s desperate plan to raise $50 million in cash through a share offering. Companies generally don’t ...