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Woodfibre LNG: Is This the Kind of Business BC Wants to Welcome?
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- Category: Rafe here... Rafe here...
- Published: 21 April 2015 21 April 2015
The war against an LNG plant in Squamish is heating up, and as the late singer Al Jolson said, “You ain’t seen nothin yet.”
Know that on this issue, I am not in any way independent. Along with thousands of others, I’m in this fight to the finish.
Global Warming Hole
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- Category: Dr. James Hansen Dr. James Hansen
- Published: 31 March 2015 31 March 2015
For now I want to let people living in the eastern two-thirds of North America know that global warming is really happening. In fact, 2015 should be the year that stifles discussion of a warming hiatus. A substantial developing El Nino will add to the global warming trend, and should make 2015 easily the warmest year in the instrumental record.
Mr. Weston and C-51 - You Underestimate Canadian Resolve and Grit
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- Written by Frank L. McElroy Frank L. McElroy
- Category: Coast Views Coast Views
- Published: 30 March 2015 30 March 2015
In Response to John Weston, MP, “Weston: the silent majority supports bill” published in the Local Weekly, March 26, 2015.
“Bill C-51 [is] carefully attempting to balance freedom and security.” Mr. Weston asks Canadians to take the supposed benevolence of CSIS and his government on blind faith. He offers no formula for his “balancing” act, no criteria to justify further invasion of personal human freedoms which are already impaired. No case whatsoever. He fails to cite any facts or law which would even allow a government to engage in a balancing act, and such power is not granted from liberty itself, borne of mere human existence, not a gift from the leader.
Speaking Truth to Power - And to Friends
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- Category: Dr. James Hansen Dr. James Hansen
- Published: 12 October 2014 12 October 2014
Sometimes its easier to speak truth to power than to speak truth to friends–I refer not to friends you know well, but
to compatriots fighting for the same good cause.
Once when I was giving a public talk at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, where I was about to be presented an award by Governor Brown, who was sitting in the front row, I described California’s newly minted cap-and-trade program as “half-baked” and “half-assed”. I admit to being tactless, but it got his attention, which was my intention.
Clark Govt in Over its Head with Big LNG Players
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- Category: Rafe here... Rafe here...
- Published: 01 October 2014 01 October 2014
Many long years ago, when I was in first year Law, we learned a case called the Carbolic Smoke Ball case. This involved a patent medicine and great claims were made for its virtues. There was a lawsuit because a user of this patent medicine was not satisfied with the result, which he said was nil. This was apropos in those days, since in B.C. we were constantly exhorted to buy Dodds Kidney Pills, which had nothing to do with kidneys, and Carter’s Little Liver Pills, which had dick-all to do with livers.
Sunshine Coast Attentive Taxpayers launch SCRD Audit Petition
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- Written by Beverly Saunders Beverly Saunders
- Category: Following the SCRD Following the SCRD
- Published: 20 April 2013 20 April 2013
New Program Recognizes Businesses for Zero Waste Success
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- Written by Beverly Saunders Beverly Saunders
- Category: Sustainable Values Sustainable Values
- Published: 11 April 2013 11 April 2013
Zero Waste Advocacy Groups Protest Incinerator Industry
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- Written by Beverly Saunders Beverly Saunders
- Category: Sustainable Values Sustainable Values
- Published: 09 April 2013 09 April 2013
Death by Success? The New Recycling Contract
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- Written by Brian Sadler Brian Sadler
- Category: Following the SCRD Following the SCRD
- Published: 18 August 2012 18 August 2012
There are many examples of 'Death by Success'; the Salmon spawning process, the Praying Mantis mating ritual, and even the successful matchstick which, when struck, proceeds to consume itself. A new example could be the new SCRD Recycling Contract recently signed by the Gibsons Recycling Depot (GRD).