OMG. How embarrassing. I see that old Con man Joe Oliver just won't give up. Once he tried to fool us into thinking that the water from the tar ponds would be safe to drink. Now he's in New York trying to scam the Americans into believing that the Cons
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LeDaro: Stephen Harper and Keystone Pipeline
Cartoon by Greg Perry. This cartoon says it all.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Ad Campaign that Will Finish off the Keystone Pipeline
Well as you know, Stephen Harper is trying to convince Obama to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, by claiming he's serious about reducing green house gas emissions. And as you also know, I believe the pipeline will be one of the casualties of a missile strike on Syria, as Obama
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Will Obama’s War Cost Stephen Harper the Keystone Pipeline?
Well at least we now know what Stephen Harper expects for his strong support of Obama's missile strike on Syria. He wants Obama to do the right thing and give him his Keystone XL pipeline Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Road to Armageddon
Well there he was today in his crumbling bastion of Quebec City, in the province of the fiery nightmare, looking as shaken, or just plain weird, as I have ever seen him. Trying to reply to Obama's humiliating slap in the face. Prime Minister Stephen Harper responded Friday to U.S. President
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Great Surrender
He likes to pose as a patriot. Or go on and on about standing up for our sovereignty, in the True North strong and Conservative !!!!He has bombarded us with propaganda about the War of 1812, and how we beat the Americans eh?But now that the Americans are threatening to invade
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper’s Desperate War with the White House
Well I never said the end of the Con regime would be pretty eh? But who knew it would be so humiliating? Such a crude awakening. Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Day Obama Humiliated Stephen Harper
Well we all know he's an oil pimp. We all know he says he's an economist.We all know he's been claiming that the Keystone XL pipeline would create tens of thousands of jobs in the United States. Prime Minister Stephen Harper told an American audience today that the Keystone XL pipeline "absolutely
Continue reading350 or bust: Betting The Farm On Hazardous Pipelines With Poor Track Records
* Ready or not, painful or not, we are in the middle of a huge shift from an oil dependent economy to one that is run on renewables, the Great Transition. Our governments and the corporations that control them – the people and structures that have become out-of-this-world wealthy from
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Total Moral Corruption of the Con Regime
When I watched this stunning moment in Question Period today, at first I couldn't believe it. Then I was outraged, and then I was disgusted.For nothing could have summed up better the total and absolute moral corruption of the Con regime.Read more »
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Thomas Mulcair and the Attack of the Oil Pimps
It's like a really bad horror movie.One that could only happen in Harperland, where madness reigns, and the Big Lie RULES.A B-movie where Thomas Mulcair gets swarmed by a small army of Con oil pimps, for warning the Americans the pimps are trying to scam them. While the Con pimps, who
Continue readingSusan on the Soapbox: Redford’s Keystone Ad in the New York Times: The St Patrick’s Day Blunder
So it’s come to this has it? Premier Redford has officially abdicated responsibility for the Canadian natural resource strategy to her communications director, Stefan Baranski, who persuaded Ms Redford to place an ad in today’s New York Times. The ad, entitled Keystone XL: The Choice of Reason, was meant
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Joe Oliver Goes to War Again
Uh oh. He's BAAAAACK!!!Joe "Oily" Oliver, the screaming scarecrow of the Tar Sands.First he called Canadian environmentalists job killing extremists, and tools of foreign interests.Then he promised we would be able to drink the tarry bubbly from the tailing ponds. And that it would taste like prosperity.Now he's back as crazy as ever, waving
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Stephen Harper and the Carbon Trap
It's been the weirdest winter ever where I live.It was so warm for so long it took forever for the canal to freeze, until it was safe enough to skate on.Then it thawed so quickly, the net got stranded in the middle of nowhere, with the ice too thin to
Continue readingNorthern Reflections: The Second Coming
The word on the street is that the Harper government has informed Washington that, if it doesn’t approve the Keystone XL Pipeline, there will be a catastrophic rupture in Canadian-American relations — “the biggest deep freeze in Canada-U.S. relations ever.” Now, there’s a threat which must have caused panic in
Continue readingStraight Outta Edmonton: Between Hawks and Pragmatists, Currents in Oilsands Policy
Among proponents of the Alberta Oilsands, there exists two broad camps that are differentiated from each other on the basis of how best to advocate for the sector’s continued growth in the face of mounting opposition. For the purposes of this post, I label them oilsands hawks and oilsands pragmatists.
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Keystone Cons and the Day of Reckoning
It was a stirring sight.Tens of thousands of protesters braving the freezing cold to try to stop the planet from burning.Demanding that Obama kill the Keystone XL pipeline.Canada’s carbon-intensive oilsands industry was the guest of dishonour in Washington on Sunday, where the largest in a series of nationwide climate rallies
Continue readingCarbon49 - Sustainability for Canadian businesses: Obama’s State of the Union Address on Climate Change
“If Congress won’t act soon to protect future generations, I will,” says Obama in his 2013 State of the Union address which devoted a substantial portion on climate change. Direction is set for more oil and gas drilling, but also more funding for electric cars and energy efficient buildings. The
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Unist’ot’en Action Camp: Stopping Pipelines In Their Tracks
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger It struck me from the outset that the Natives were Canada’s best chance for pushback against corporate and oil and gas interests. Who else could or would stop the Enbridge Pipeline, the Keystone, the Pacific Trails Pipeline, the fracking? The NDP today is a mere shadow of
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: TransCanada’s Latest Extreme Energy Export Pipelines in the U.S. and Canada
shutterstock_48011347.jpg TransCanada was once in the limelight and targeted for its Keystone XL pipeline project. Now, with few eyes watching, it is pushing along two key pipeline projects that would bring two respective forms of what energy geopolitics scholar Michael Klare calls "extreme energy" to lucrative export markets. Pipeline one: the southern
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