Article by Todd Babiak in the Edmonton Journal. “This is a moment unlike any other in the short history of the oilsands, and Coutu’s trip to Vancouver is only the latest in a series of signs that the energy industry, the provincial and federal governments and my colleagues in the media can no longer credibly, or even incredibly, dismiss scientists and environmentalists as Alberta haters and kooks.” Read article
Article by Matthew Buchanan for Transport Action BC. “According to Washington State Department of Transportation, the Canadian Border Services Agency has decided to impose an annual fee of $500,000 to recover the costs of border inspection for the second [Seattle-Vancouver] train. This will kill the second train which has been very popular since it was first introduced last year.” Read article
Article by Andrew Nikiforuk at The Tyee. “Saudi oil barons may beat their women and whip foreign workers, but Canada happily employs aboriginals in open pit mines. Nigeria hangs its critics, but Canada just accuses them of being Greenpeace scum. Venezuela censors its media, but Ottawa will bring peace to the planet with the world’s most expensive oil.” This is an excellent article. Read article
Article by Marilyn Baptiste in the Globe and Mail. “What would you do if another country, many times more populous and powerful, decides that it wants Canada’s water and, after listening to all the reasons why it cannot not simply take it, announces that it is going to do exactly that?” Read article
Article by Brenda Bouw in the Globe and Mail. “Saskatchewan is playing hardball with BHP Billiton Ltd. over its $38.6-billion (U.S.) hostile bid to buy Potash Corp. saying it’s not convinced a sale of the resources giant is good for the province, or the country.”
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Article by Sean Holman at Public Eye Online. “Senior bureaucrats aren’t supposed to work for any company they’ve recently had substantial involvement with for at least a year after leaving the provincial civil service. But the Campbell administration decided those guidelines didn’t conflict with the former head of the government’s oil and gas division [Gordon Goodman] joining the Canadian subsidiary of EOG Resources Inc. – a Houston, Texas-based firm developing natural gas reserves in northeastern British Columbia.”
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Blog posting by Murray Dobbin. “Each time some new outrage happens we should see it as another test by the corporate state of what we will put up with – what the new parameters of normal will be down the road. Each time we acquiesce, we lose a little more.” Read article
Story by Darrell Bellaart in the Nanaimo Daily News. David Welch of Kintama Research Corp.: “Most of the mortality happened after they passed the north end of the Island, so it appears to be a problem not in the Strait of Georgia. What surprised me a lot, when I looked at our data and the DFO data, it indicates the fish died in Queen Charlotte Sound. It happened within several weeks of passing through the area of the fish farms.” Read article
Article from SustainableBusiness.com. “Two dams on the Elwha river, constructed 100 years ago without fish ladders, are being taken out to restore roughly 70 miles of river and stream habitat for wild salmon.” Includes link to Oregon Public Broadcasting story. Read article
Article by Armen Keteyian from CBS News. An exclusive investigation into complaints of deceptive practices by Canadian energy giant Enbridge. Read article