The first is a request for help in funding a documentary that may help an effort in Belize to protect a portion of the country around Placencia against rampant development by outsiders for tourism. Belize has tried very hard over… Read More »22nd February. Two items that arrived in my in-box today — both are worth thinking about.
I had been getting ready to write something about the effort by our Canadian national government to paint any opposition to the Northern Gateway as traitorous, foreign-inspired, or even terrorism. It seemed a lot like pandering to big oil as… Read More »19th February 2012. The recent developments in Canada around the Northern Gateway are just part of a wider plot.
Today was the first day of public hearings into the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline planned to transport tar sands product to the Pacific and thence to Asian markets. Over the next two years, the three-person federal review panel assessing the… Read More »10th January 2012. Canada is embarking on an interesting conversation about the value of environment