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1. Proposed Kitimat oil refinery just another barrier to oil sands development

   Appeared in the Vancouver Province BC Green party MLA Andrew Weaver has (grudgingly) endorsed the idea of building a $25 billion refinery in British Columbia to convert Alberta's bitumen into gasoline, diesel fuel, and aviation fuel, allowing the ...

2. A Northern Gateway to conflict

   Appeared in the Huffington Post, Guelph Mercury and Waterloo Region Record The National Energy Board (NEB) released its report on the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline proposal December 19, finding that plans for building the pipeline are sufficient for ...

3. B.C. to Alberta: Stuff your oil

   Appeared in the Huffington Post On the last day of May, the government of British Columbia gave the back of its hand to Alberta and indirectly to the rest of Canada, which benefits—and could benefit more—from continued development of Alberta’s oilsands. ...

4. Canada is a country, not a set of provincial fiefdoms

   Appeared in the Calgary Herald, Vancouver Sun, Victoria Times Colonist and Winnipeg Free Press When Christy Clark recently asserted British Columbia didn’t need the federal government and also said “we don't need Alberta,” the B.C. premier ...

5. An opportunity to give British Columbia its fair share

   Appeared in the Financial Post and Vancouver Sun Following the U.S. government’s delay in approving the much-hyped Keystone XL pipeline, many pundits turned their attention to the possibility of a new pipeline from the oilsands to BC’s west coast that ...