Jobs, Economy and Northern Gateway
By Andrew Weaver
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The National Energy Board’s Joint Review Panel (JRP) has now released its final report approving the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project. The project would see 525,000 barrels of the heavy oil diluted bitumen (dilbit) transported across British Columbia each day and loaded onto super tankers for shipment to international refineries. The project is yet another manifestation of a pattern of digging up Canada’s raw resources and shipping them to other countries with no value-added manufacturing or refining done locally. Yet what makes this proposal particularly problematic is the significant economic and environmental risk that we in B.C. face, should a spill occur.
Intervener Application for Kinder Morgan/Trans Mountain Pipeline Review
Media Release - December 17th, 2013
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Victoria BC - Oak Bay-Gordon Head MLA Andrew Weaver and BC Green Party Interim Leader Adam Olsen will seek intervener status in the forth-coming National Energy Board hearings on the proposed Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.
Statement on Human Rights Day
December 10 marks the 63rd Human Rights Day, created in honour of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human of Rights. Signed in 1948, this declaration became the first globally recognized statement of rights, biased neither by race, nor gender, nor cultural background. Instead, it sought to bring a standard of equality for citizens across the world.
Statement on the passing of Nelson Mandela
We mourn the passing of Nelson Mandela. Our thoughts are with his family, South Africans and all of humanity.