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After the speech he gave yesterday, approving Northern Gateway would be an act of utter betrayal

June 10, 2014 | 

Can you imagine Stephen Harper saying this? “Before politics I spent most of my life working in First Nations communities – in Northern Ontario and in fact across Canada, ...

B.C. government secretly approves coal permitting amendment

April 23, 2014 | 

Thanks to a dedicated Beyond Coal supporter from Burnaby, we learned that the provincial ministry of energy and mines secretly approved a permit amendment allowing Texada Quarries to expand ...

Kitimat Cough

April 10, 2014 | 

It’s week two now in a whole new reality. Where? Rio Tinto Alcan’s Kitimat Modernization Project. Packed into a crowded work camp for the first time in my life, ...

Let’s give Enbridge a judo lesson

March 27, 2014 | 

Advance polls open in Kitimat next Wednesday, and Enbridge is doing everything it can to buy the vote. Our friends on the ground in the B.C. town of 9,000 ...

Enbridge loses two key allies in two days

March 20, 2014 | 

With Alison Redford gone and Joe Oliver shuffled off the pipeline file, the case is weakening for federal approval of the Northern Gateway proposal. Redford was the Premier of ...

On the road again

“I’m glad we’re getting started small and then growing big. We’re going to grow fast here.” That’s what one first-time organizer from Prince George said to us after we ...

Will Harper kill Northern Gateway?

March 12, 2014 | 

Napoleon Bonaparte learned the hard way: don’t fight on more than one front at once. Stephen Harper is a keen student of history – you can bet he’s absorbed ...

Meet Dogwood’s new Energy & Democracy Director

March 10, 2014 | 

My name is Kai Nagata and I’m proud to be joining Dogwood Initiative at their new headquarters in Victoria. I’m here because I share Dogwood’s core goal: for British ...

Pipeline politics – party style

March 7, 2014 | 

Sometimes I’m surprised by how strongly people look to elected representatives for leadership. To get things done, in my experience, its best to assume politicians are followers, not leaders: ...