Posts from ‘No Tankers’ - Page 28
5 reasons shipping oil to Asia is not in the national interest
One of the more startling takeaways from Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver’s open letter is how the government has confused “corporate interests” as being one and the same as ...
A Wild Start to 2012
January 2012 is set to go down in the history books as a turning point in the battle to keep oil supertankers out of B.C.’s inside coastal waters. It ...
How increasing oil exports hurts the manufacturing sector
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 ...
Predictions for 2012
Never make predictions, especially about the future. – Casey Stengel, Hall of Fame Baseball Manager Almost every year when I get a new calendar I sit down to ponder ...
Hope for the new year
Anger. Frustration. Despair. These are the feelings many of us have when we read the news these days. If it’s not our prime minister vowing to send oil to ...
The power of the underdog
December is when I take some personal time to reflect on Dogwood’s accomplishments over the last year and anticipate the opportunities coming in the next 12 months. Back in ...
Save the Fraser Declaration gets new signatories
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
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 ...
In your words: standing up for right to speak at Enbridge hearings
A column in the Calgary Herald last week got Dogwood supporters so hot under the collar that they flooded the newspaper with more than 100 letters to the editor. ...