We generally get the same straw man arguments over and over again so over the next little while I wanted to take some time to answer them.   The first “Answering the Critics” is here .  The second is below. If you encounter...

Late on Monday, Quebec’s Superior Court rejected an application that tried to stop TransCanada from drilling in critical beluga whale habitat in Quebec. The application for an injunction was from two citizens and a coalition of...

I’ve lived in Alberta most of my life. When I’ve travelled to other places in Canada to attend progressive gathering and I say I’m from Alberta most people either roll their eyes or they give me a sympathy hug.  Despite my...

We generally get the same strawman arguments over and over again so over the next little while I want to take some time to answer them.   Here’s the first one.  (If you encounter it in your travels feel free to forward them this...

Farmers hardly need convincing when it comes to taking advantage of the power of the sun. Yet these days, farmers have found a new use for it. A growing number of farms are turning to solar installations to power their operations in a...

Tomorrow, Native Nations from across Turtle Island will come to Washington D.C. to stand together to protect the sacred and stop a rash of pipelines and fossil fuel development projects. Indigenous communities across the continent...

“The only network bigger then the network of pipelines running across the country is the network of people rising up against them.”   Yesterday I was on the streets of Lincoln, Nebraska with hundreds of pipeline fighters and...

Harper needs to act on Rail Safety Yesterday I tried to drive to Gainford. I wanted to try to assess for myself how much damage had been done because of the latest train derailment disaster. 13 rail cars – four laden with...

There comes a time when you need to take a stand, when the processes that were designed to protect us have so broken down that we have no choice but to do so. That is quickly becoming the case with Enbridge’s Northern Gateway tar sands...