VIDEO: Fracking has “awakened a sleeping giant”

Published January 21, 2015

Fee-fi-fo-fum. Two significant stories reflect growing concern over fracking in Canada. Tuesday’s Whitehorse Daily Star headline tells us that the conservative Yukon Party’s rush to push fracking on the Klondike has “awakened a sleeping giant.” Farmacia Rome Italia In the Yukon, an all-party committee of the legislature tabled a report that found “the majority of Yukoners that the committee heard […]

Green with envy: Canada should follow these clean energy leaders

Published January 11, 2015

Maybe Kermit the Frog had it all wrong and being green is easy – or at least easier than he thought. But first the scary news on fossil fuels. A new study in Nature warns that a large percentage of the world’s untapped fossil fuel reserves (including almost all of the Canadian oilsands) need to be left in the ground […]

Christy Clark’s government asks you to give your family B.C. coal for Christmas

Published December 14, 2014

Are you a last minute shopper? Don’t worry. Christy Clark’s government has an idea: consider leaving lumps of B.C. coal in your loved ones’ stockings this Christmas. “Stuff your stockings with B.C. coal,” reads the headline of an actual press release issued by B.C.’s Ministry of Energy and Mines on Saturday. “No matter whether you light the […]

Kids at Montreal’s Santa Claus parade told that global warming is caused by sunshine

Published December 8, 2014

That must explain it! Children attending this year’s Santa Claus Parade in Montreal were trolled by a video billboard at a busy city intersection proclaiming global warming is caused by sunshine. Yes. Sunshine. The billboard was paid for by “Friends of Science,” a Calgary-based group that once counted a major oil company as a donor. The group’s stated […]

Fraser Institute: Flee your homes and cities in response to climate change (VIDEO)

Published December 2, 2014

Head for the high ground! The Fraser Institute is warning that Canadians may need to forsake their homes in low-lying areas of cities in response to floods induced by “naturally” occurring climate change that may also have “some human influence.” “It’s pretty clear that we’re not going to reverse civilization, we’re not going to walk away […]

5 ways Stephen Harper made pipelines the most toxic issue in Canada today

Published November 26, 2014

Are Stephen Harper’s pipeline policies beginning to boomerang back at him? On the West Coast, 78 people have been arrested (so far) over the past week on Burnaby Mountain, protesting Kinder Morgan’s proposal to triple its pipeline capacity to transport Alberta oil to British Columbia. From an 84 year-old retired librarian to 11 year-old girls, people are being […]

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