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Who’s listening? Speaking to the most powerful people in the room
Kinder Morgan Panel offered us an opportunity to vent but not be heard. Were our efforts in vain? I had a dream last night about the Kinder Morgan panel. ...
Citizens are having a hard time trusting elected officials
By Brenda Ross In late July, as Dogwood’s team leader in Delta, I was part of a group that met with Delta MP Carla Qualtrough and North Vancouver MP ...
Climate leadership or climate corporatocracy?
B.C.’s Climate Leadership Plan focuses less on change to our climate and more on change in the BC Liberal’s piggy bank. Last Friday afternoon, in a remote warehouse in ...
So fresh and so clean, clean
Dogwood has a new website, and it’s pretty nice. It’s no exaggeration to say this site has been years in the making — but hey! It’s important not to ...
Don’t tell us how you’re different – show us
Botched oil tanker consultations have British Columbians worried. Less than a month after the last election, Natural Resources minister Jim Carr was given fresh marching orders. Carr’s mandate letter ...
Letter shows Trudeau ready to break promise on Kinder Morgan
Oil tanker approval would betray written commitment by Liberals. Sitting in a Burnaby hotel ballroom this week across from three sheepish federal pipeline panelists, I couldn’t help but remember ...
What really matters
Farms and fish, kids and climate change: Surrey and Langley residents came together to show the Trans Mountain Ministerial Panel what’s really at stake. I remember when I first found out about ...
Neither Law nor Order
In Kamloops, dedicated residents raised concerns about Kinder Morgan’s pipeline proposal. These are their stories. The B.C. portion of the Minister’s Kinder Morgan TransMountain Pipeline Expansion panel tour kicked off ...
She was called out for conflict of interest. Her response is bizarre.
Review panel member says her past with Kinder Morgan is no big deal. Imagine in the middle of a murder trial, it turned out one of the jurors was ...