Rafe Mair and Damien Gillis discuss The Common Sense Canadian and their coverage of key environmental and public policy issues in BC and Canada on Shaw’s EVOTV, with host Irma Arkus. The three cover a wide range of issues in the half hour program – from private river power and the state of BC Hydro to oil pipelines and supertankers on our coast, natural gas fracking, coal mines, salmon farms and the Cohen Commission into disappearing Fraser River sockeye. (Aug 8, 2011)
Read this story from Huffington Post on the recent decision by a Montana judge to block the transportation by truck of heavy extraction equipment bound for the Alberta Tar Sands via the state’s highways. (July 20, 2011)
Read this report from the Omaha World-Herald on debate commencing in the US House of Representatives over TransCanada Pipelines’ controversial proposed Keystone XL pipeline. (July 26, 2011)
Read this article from the Province on the forthcoming National Geographic cover story on the Great Bear Rainforest and battle over the proposed Enbridge pipeline to BC’s coast. (July 21, 2011)
Read this report from the Vancouver Sun on this week’s meetings between Canada’s provincial energy ministers and a new plan to see Canada transformed into a global energy superpower. (July 20, 2011)
Read this article from the Globe and Mail on the call from Alberta’s energy minister to speed up the approval of the controversial Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline through BC. (July 19, 2011)
Read this article from the Globe and Mail on the growing momentum for a national energy strategy, a concept the Harper Conservatives are now mulling out loud, in contrast to their traditional opposition to the idea. (July 10, 2011)
Watch this 3 min video news story from international agency AFP on the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline and the Tar Sands – featuring images by Damien Gillis and Ian McAllister. (July 5, 2011)
Read this important story from the Vancouver Sun on new details of staggering number of oil pipeline accidents and incidents logged by the Transportation Safety Board of Canada – three quarters of them stemming from Enbridge or TransCanada Pipelines. (July 5)
Read this article from Forbes.com on the growing conflict between China and the US over Canadian oil resources – June 25, 2011