The Tea Party movement, poised to help shift the U.S. legislature to the right and stymie President Obama’s green agenda, has financial and organizational ties
to Koch Industries, one of America’s biggest processors of Alberta oil
sands crude. Read article in The Tyee
Article by Andrew MacLeod at The Tyee. “While communities editor Jennifer MacMillan stops short of saying the ‘yes’ side may have cheated in the poll, she acknowledges in a blog post that the Globe and Mail’s online voting system can be easily manipulated.” Read article
Article by Bill Tieleman at The Tyee. “Like the ill-fated Rosencrantz and Guildenstern — a pair of minor actors working for the corrupt King Claudius who are sent off unsuspectingly to their deaths by the scheming Danish prince Hamlet — Basi and Virk were simply hung out to dry after police raided the B.C. legislature on Dec. 28, 2003.” Read article
Article by Andrew Nikiforuk at The Tyee. “The earth-shattering exploitation of deep deposits of shale rock for natural gas production has broken global records in northeast British Columbia and now threatens critical water supplies across the country, warns a new Munk School of Global Affairs report by award-winning B.C. journalist Ben Parfitt.” Read article
Article by Geoff Dembicki at The Tyee. “How do you develop a pristine eco-system? Or do you develop it at all?
Green groups, First Nations and logging companies fought bitterly over these issues during the decades-long campaign to protect the coastal Great Bear Rainforest.” Read article
Article by Dawn Paley at The Tyee. Joe Alphonse: “At the end of the day, even if the federal government approves this mine, that’s still not a guarantee that the mine is going to become a reality, because we would then be forced to continue to look after our interest. If we have to get on the roads, we’ll get on the roads, if we have to step in the courts, we’ll step in the courts.” Read article
Article by Crawford Killian at The Tyee. New research offers more evidence that open-pen salmon farming is causing “major declines in wild fish populations,” according to a news release from the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform. Read article
Article by Andrew Nikiforuk at The Tyee. Hollywood’s biggest director visits Extremistan. 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 Andrew Nikiforuk in The Tyee. “Not too many people in the oil patch speak honestly about the world’s most powerful industry, but (Matt) Simmons did. He didn’t let the money, bullshit or arrogance cloud his judgment. Or his basic reading of geology for that matter.” Read article