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Keystone XL and its 8 billion tonnes of carbon

hannah Posted On janvier 18, 2012

Media reports indicate that President Obama’s will announce a decision today to reject TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. This would be a source of hope and inspiration for people in Canada, and around the world, who are standing […]

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David Suzuki: What’s so radical about caring for the Earth and opposing Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline?

hannah Posted On janvier 18, 2012

Caring about the air, water, and land that give us life. Exploring ways to ensure Canada’s natural resources serve the national interest. Knowing that sacrificing our environment to a corporate-controlled economy is suicide. If those qualities make us radicals, as […]

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‘Foreign money’ is a hypocritical diversion

hannah Posted On janvier 11, 2012

It has been rich, even comic, to listen to the Harper government blasting away at “foreign money,” “radical groups” and Hollywood movie stars for interfering in the environmental review of the Northern Gateway pipeline that’s just starting. Of course, such […]

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Environmentalists sound alarm over Tory stand on pipeline review

hannah Posted On janvier 10, 2012

Conservation activists are attacking as anti-democratic Ottawa’s concern that the approval process for a controversial pipeline risks being hijacked by foreign interests and “radical groups.” Hearings have not started on the Northern Gateway, a proposed pipeline that would carry oil […]

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Open Letter in response to Joe Oliver By John Bennett, Sierra Club Canada Executive Director

hannah Posted On janvier 10, 2012

The Federal Government is engaged in an unprecedented campaign to damage the credibility of the environmental movement. In the latest move, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver (apparently replacing Environment Minister Peter Kent as the chief anti-environmentalist government spokesperson) submitted an “open letter” […]

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Environmentalists hit back over pipeline hearings

hannah Posted On janvier 10, 2012

OTTAWA—Environmentalists accused Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government of taking the side of big oil over ordinary citizens after the Conservatives said foreign-funded “radicals” were distorting a pipeline approval process. “It’s definitely very troubling that the government would poison this process,” […]