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Dogwood Initiative reacts to Harper’s “foreign money” comments
Emma Gilchrist, Communications Director, for the Dogwood Initiative made the following comments in response to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Natural Resource Minister Joe Oliver’s remarks about “foreign money” ...
British Columbians Worried about Foreign Investment in Canadian Resources, Not Philanthropic Support for Environmental Groups
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA (Jan. 9, 2012) – A poll released today by BC environmental groups shows that almost 75 percent of British Columbians are worried about foreign investment ...
Dogwood Initiative reacts to Enbridge Northern Gateway poll
In response to polling results on the Northern Gateway pipeline released on behalf of Enbridge by Ipsos Reid today, Eric Swanson, Campaign Director at Dogwood Initiative, said the following: ...
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 ...
DFO seeks to reverse parts of 2010 decision on killer whale critical habitat
(Victoria, B.C.) – Ecojustice, representing Dogwood Initiative and eight other environmental groups, will appear before the federal Court of Appeal today to defend a precedent-setting ruling that confirmed the ...
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. ...
