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Harper and FIPA: Sell-out on a Friday afternoon

09/15/2014 by the editor

By Montreal Simon He waited until late Friday afternoon to announce that the Cons had ratified their controversial trade deal with China. Hoping that most people wouldn’t notice. Ottawa confirms it has ratified a foreign investment treaty with China, more than two years after the controversial agreement was signed, as CBC News first reported Friday. […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: British Columbia, business, Canada, Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement, China, Conservatives, Ed Fast, Elizabeth May, Enbridge, Enbridge Pipeline, FIPA, First Nations, Green Party, international affairs, International Trade, law, Northern Gateway Pipeline, oil, oil sands, Stephen Harper, tar sands, trade

You’ve seen the ads — now play the game!

06/23/2014 by backofthebook.ca

By Drew McLachlan If you live in British Columbia, odds are you’ve seen the video below about a million times. It’s not a Tourism BC advertisement or the new video for that chillwave band your coworker told you about — it’s one of the many ads produced for Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline, which are constantly […]

Filed Under: Northern Gateway Tagged With: British Columbia, business, Canada, Enbridge, Enbridge Pipeline, environment, forests, nature, Northern Gateway Pipeline, oceans, oil, oil sands, tar sands

Northern Gateway: Time to build a firewall around B.C.

06/18/2014 by the editor

By Frank Moher In 2001, Stephen Harper was famously one of the signatories to an open letter encouraging then-Alberta Premier Ralph Klein “to build firewalls around Alberta.” The idea was that Alberta had to protect itself against the encroachments of the federal government. This morning it is BC’s turn to defend itself against a predatory […]

Filed Under: Northern Gateway, Politics Tagged With: Alberta, animals, British Columbia, business, Calgary, Canada, Enbridge, Enbridge Pipeline, environment, forests, nature, Northern Gateway Pipeline, oceans, oil, oil sands, tar sands

Good News! NEB bans oil spills over $950 million!

12/20/2013 by backofthebook.ca

From The Enbridge Northern Gateway Project Joint Review Panel: “In the unlikely event of a large oil spill . . . we found that the adverse effects would not be permanent and widespread.” And just in case you aren’t convinced of this by reading it just the once, the National Energy Enbridge Board repeats it […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Enbridge, National Energy Board, Northern Gateway Pipeline, oil, tar sands

Artists for the rainforest — and reality

12/10/2012 by backofthebook.ca

By Rachelle Stein-Wotten Art is at the forefront of a raging energy debate in Canada. Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Pipeline – you know, the one that would travel 1,000 kilometres from Alberta to British Columbia’s coast, delivering oil to be pumped into tankers taller than monuments, destination: Asia — has created a small boom in art-not-just-for-art’s […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: Alberta, BC, business, Canada, Enbridge, Enbridge Pipeline, visual arts

The Province’s big, gooey Enbridge mess

06/29/2012 by backofthebook.ca

By Frank Moher Now that we know just how much financial trouble Postmedia is in (see here, and here, and here), the question becomes: How well are they going to balance journalistic and money problems as they attempt, pell-mell, to transition to a digital-first strategy? On the basis of the Vancouver Province/Enbridge-parody furor, the answer […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: advertising, Canada, CBC, copyright, Enbridge, newspapers, Pacific Newspaper Group, Postmedia, The Province, Vancouver Sun

Cartoonist: Enbridge parody pulled on orders from Postmedia

06/27/2012 by backofthebook.ca

By Frank Moher The cartoonist whose animated parody of an Enbridge ad was removed from the website of Vancouver’s The Province on Friday says the newspaper was told to take it down by a Postmedia executive, after Enbridge threatened to pull $1 million in ads from the company. “It was up for awhile,” Dan Murphy, […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: advertising, Canada, CBC, copyright, Enbridge, newspapers, Postmedia, The Province

Vancouver’s Province pulls animation satirizing Enbridge

06/25/2012 by backofthebook.ca

Update: Cartoonist: Enbridge parody pulled on orders from Postmedia executive The Vancouver Province has pulled from its website an animation created by its editorial cartoonist, Dan Murphy, that satirizes Enbridge’s massive ad campaign in support of its Northern Gateway pipeline. In the original ad, Enbridge claims that the pipeline is “a path to our future,” […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: advertising, Canada, copyright, Enbridge, newspapers, Postmedia, The Province

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From Creekside: The B.C. provincial government is trying to green light the construction of a massive LNG terminal on Lelu Island in the Skeena Estuary -- Pacific Northwest LNG, backed by Malaysian … [Read More...]

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