This past week marked the seventh anniversary of the announcement of the Great Bear Rainforest Agreements by First Nations, the BC Government, the logging industry and environmental organizations including Greenpeace. The landmark...

The tar sands may be visible from space but they have been rendered invisible to the environmental review panel assessing Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline.  That’s an impressive feat, as it ensures that the review panel won’t...

The government's weakening of environmental laws to fast-track tar sands mines and pipelines could soon hit a constitutional wall. And the oil industy knows they may have to learn to take No for an answer. Last December, the...

Yesterday, Enbridge announced that sixty per cent of First Nations along the Northern Gateway pipeline route had signed on to take an equity stake in the pipeline. Company spokesperson Paul Stanway was quoted saying : "It's a good...

Oral Statement given by Barbara Stowe to the Joint Review Panel on the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline. Thursday, January 17th, afternoon, 2013.  When I was thinking about what I wanted to say here, the words of...

As the Harper government started rolling out their changes to how resource projects will be reviewed yesterday, the question in my mind was: What won’t this government do to get a tar sands pipeline through BC? To recap the ...

Big oil is the big winner in today’s federal budget. As expected, the Harper government announced that it will dismantle environmental laws that help protect our forests, air, water and wildlife from uncontrolled industrial activity...