Guest blog: My pledge to protect the Gitga'at culture
President of King Pacific Lodge questions the calculus that forces First Nations' cultures to justify their existence in the language of the corporate balance sheet.
UVic Scuba Club raises nearly $4,000 for No Tankers campaign
Buoyancy challenges, pool poker, a dance party and underwater movies were all part of the fun during a 24-hour underwater relay.
Harper’s tanker tactics reminiscent of botched National Energy Program
The Prime Minister would do well to remember Trudeau's fight with the provinces over energy projects and the toxic political fallout that lasted for decades.
What does 100,000 mean?
Dogwood's No Tankers petition recently broke 100,000 signatures! Remembering day one of the campaign and why the petition is important.
Oil tankers and pipelines a voting issue in Chilliwack-Hope?
In the lead-up to election day yesterday we let our supporters in the riding of Chilliwack-Hope know where all the candidates stood on B.C. pipeline proposals and the oil tanker traffic expansion that would come with them.
Guest Blog: Fallacies of “One Project, One Review” Logic
Independent MLA Bob Simpson calls a spade a spade on the Harper government's rationale for streamlining the environmental review process.
B.C. opposition to oil supertankers outweighs support 3:1
In the same week the federal government announced it intends to chop the review of Enbridge’s pipeline and supertanker proposal, new polling showed opposition to oil supertankers in B.C.’s inside coastal waters outweighs support 3:1.
Questions Answered, Part 2
Part 2 of our questions series. Find out about Dutch disease, carbon taxes, condensate, oil by rail and more!
The Vancouver No Tankers rally in pictures
We are very lucky to be able to team up once again with photographer Ilijc Albanese, whose photos have appeared in major international magazines.
When Oil and Water Mix
A Canadian policy think tank argues against banning oil tankers on B.C.'s north coast. We dissect their essay on tanker safety and the environment and find little more than platitudes.
The legacy of two legendary activists
British Columbia became poorer when legendary activists Art Loring and Jim Green died within weeks of one another in February. These two courageous men dramatically changed the course of British Columbia history and both British Columbia and Dogwood Initiative mourn their loss.
Your questions answered
So many of you responded to our call for questions in last month's e-news that we’ve had to split our response into two blogs. In Part 1, find out about alternatives to exporting oil, tanker routes, the effect an oil spill would have on B.C.'s coast and more!
Dear Europe: This is not our Canada
Guest Blog: The collapse of Canada's reputation — from global nice guy to international pariah — would be a joke if it were funny. But it isn't.
Harper's Big Bad Wolf tactics no fairy tale
No amount of huffing and puffing by the Prime Minister is going to blow down the wall of opposition to oil supertanker expansion on B.C.'s West Coast.
In your words: Say thank you to Joe Oliver
January's usually pretty slow. Not this year. We saw a surge of support and donations in response to Minister of Natural Resources Joe Oliver's "foreign radicals" comments on national television.
Med student donates scholarship money
One thing worries med student Kathryn Wills more than the pressing need for rural doctors and that's Enbridge's pipeline and supertanker proposal.
Have an oil tanker or pipeline question? We’ll answer it.
With Enbridge’s tanker and pipeline project to the West Coast being in the news so much lately, many Canadians are learning about the issue for the first time. There’s so much information floating around that it can be hard to make sense of it all, so we’re opening the floor to your questions.
5 reasons shipping oil to Asia is not in the national interest
Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver equates shipping unrefined oil to Asia as undeniably being in the national interest, but there are at least five key reasons why he’s wrong on that front.
A Wild Start to 2012
Joe Oliver, Stephen Harper and Keystone XL. January 2012 is set to go down in the history books as a turning point in the battle to keep oil supertankers out of B.C.’s inside coastal waters.
How increasing oil exports hurts the manufacturing sector
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the oil industry suggest that sending unrefined Canadian oil to Asia is self-evidently good for our economy. It is not. As with any decision, there would be winners and losers.
