By Eric Pettifor On more than one occasion watching American news coverage of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, I’ve heard it referred to as the greatest disaster of its kind in US history. One might think it is the worst in world history. One would be wrong. Reuters has published a piece by Robert Campbell providing […]
environment
Yes, an oil spill could happen in B.C.
By Alison@Creekside Hands Across the Sand began in Florida in February to “protest the efforts by the Florida Legislature and the US Congress to lift the ban on oil drilling in the near and off shores of Florida.” Well it’s a global movement now and here’s the Vancouver Canada page. But don’t we already have […]
A leaky water bill
Alison@Creekside Gosh, was it only 18 months ago that US Ambassador to Canada Paul Cellucci was recommending “constructing huge aqueducts to carry Canadian water to the US” ? Ho hum, responded the Cons, as they continued to obstruct any and all opposition motions to protect Canadian water from bulk export, including the recommendation to do […]
What did Wiebo Ludwig do?
By Alison@Creekside I don’t claim to be any kind of authority on Wiebo Ludwig — for that you can read Andrew Nikiforuk’s Saboteurs — but in all the considerable coverage of Ludwig’s arrest in connection with six cases of explosions on EnCana’s gas pipelines, I notice the media’s accompanying history of Ludwig makes no mention […]
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Reality
By Bev Schellenberg In this pro recycling age, it’s easy to feel guilty if you don’t maintain a high standard of green living. Do you rinse out your soup can, pull off the label, and insert it into your handy recycling box? What about the milk carton? Does it get a thorough clean and then […]
Your water is our water
By Alison@Creekside Bob alerts us to this CBC headline : Canada, U.S. will renegotiate Great Lakes water treaty “Canada and the United States will renegotiate the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Saturday in Niagara Falls, Ont.“Clinton, who was joined by Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon, crossed the border for […]
BC’s watershed election
By Alison@Creekside “Environmental blah blah” is how retiring NDP MLA Corky Evans describes the privatization of B.C.’s waterways under the guise of addressing climate change. So-called “green” run of river hydro projects, also known as independent power projects or IPPs, divert water into a pipe several kilometres long and then into a turbine before returning […]
Dion’s plan hits home
Let’s talk about real quality of life and how a decent government program can contribute to it. Many years ago, nobody could afford to get into the housing market in Alberta. So the provincial government offered new home buyers an interest-free loan of $5,000 to help out with their downpayment. I took one of those […]
This election, let’s talk about real quality of life
Maybe it is because the prairies are still wide open and pristine that Western Canadians would rather vote for Harper than Dion or Layton. Or maybe it’s because Harper, as savage as his world view is, hasn’t been tainted by corruption. I don’t know Dion well enough to know whether I trust him but I […]
Snooke(red)
By guest blogger Lindsay Szymanski I noticed something disturbing the other day at the grocery store. Pink. Everywhere. I was in the frozen-food aisle, picking out some breakfast treats, when I picked up a box of waffles. Emblazoned with pink ribbons, the box implied that I too could fight the battle of breast cancer, if […]
