Monthly archive for May 2014

Deregulating the environment is bad for the economy

On May 14, 2014 / Adam Olsen, Island Voices - Island Talk, Random Articles / Leave a comment

Archive ∙ Back to Island Voices May 2014 “If we want to do what the big polluters and their indentured servants in Ottawa or Washington DC want us to do, which is treat the planet as if it was a business in liquidation, convert our natural resources to cash

Halting the Expansion of Thermal Coal Exports in BC

On May 11, 2014 / Andrew Weaver, Island Voices - Island Talk / Leave a comment

Archive ∙ Back to Island Voices May 2014 On February 11th, 2014, the first day of the spring session the B.C. Legislature, Lieutenant-Governor, Judith Guichon, delivered the B.C. government’s latest speech from the throne, which focused heavily on the development of BC’s liquefied natural gas industry as a means

Urban Legends

On May 5, 2014 / Island Voices - Island Talk, MIVH / Leave a comment

Archive ∙ Back to Island Voices May 2014 Can the Swiffer WetJet poison dogs? According to an Internet rumour that started circulating in early 2004, it can. The following landed in this author’s inbox in September 2004… I recently had a neighbor who had to have their 5-year old