Did you know: 1. Old growth forests slow down forest fires. 2. Meanwhile, BC old growth forests are being clearcut & exported for wood pellets. The cycle of cutting old growth then burning its wood pellets in other countries can be worse than coal, total carbon-wise. #bcpoli
..For more information, this expert panel on BC forestry and turning our forests into pellets is worthwhile: Dr. Mary Booth, Partnership for Policy Integrity, Michelle Connolly, Conservation North,
Tegan Hansen, Stand.Earth#bcpoli
..The industry & govt push for biomass energy is destroying old growth. The BC public must speak up on this. In the video Dr. Mary Booth explains why burning wood should not be counted towards renewable energy targets. This mirrors 'LNG is clean' spin, Min @DonaldsonDoug#bcpoli
@DonaldsonDoug ..You will see various reactions to the BC gov'ts "new" Old Growth Strategy released on Friday (Friday release is always suspicious timing) but many of us view it as a deceptive scam. The BC govt provided no boundaries for the old growth where they say they are deferring cutting!
@DonaldsonDoug ..Meanwhile te BC govt & Minister @DonaldsonDoug's 'old growth strategy' is only deferring cutting for 2 years, not terminating it. We have a vanishingly small amount of BC old growth left. NONE should be cut. Yet many key areas aren't even in the gov'ts deferral zones! #bcpoli
@DonaldsonDoug ..Someone prove to me this govt report on old growth forests isn't pre-election spin, and from a govt that has allowed acceleration of old growth clearcutting during its 3 years in power, including by BC govt's OWN logging operation, BC Timber Sales. #bcpoli
@DonaldsonDoug ..PS don't even get me started on the logging of old forests along 100 km of the Peace River Valley for a #SiteC dam that is likely unbuildable.
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
I may sound like a broken record, but Vancouver's OneCity is neither left nor green
Lucy Maloney, the new OneCity councillor, is an environmental lawyer who worked for the enemy, Australian mining giant BHP. So did her husband. He now works for Teck, the Cdn mining corp #vanpoli
OneCity didn't put any of this information in Lucy Maloney's bio.
It's true though.
OneCity is also the farm team of the BC NDP (recall: Christine Boyle left council & is now an NDP cabinet minister). BC NDP aren't left wing either, or remotely green.
“BHP has often been the subject of controversy over its hardline labour relations policies and what is seen as its overly aggressive pursuit of new mining opportunities in poor countries.”
I have worked on enviro issues for decades. I know what corporate greenwashers do.
Been taking a daily walk to check for new graffiti on the new Tesla service centre being built in East Vancouver. They washed off the old "Future home of the Incel Camino," but someone's added "FUK MUSK" in the shape of the old East Van cross, & now more... #swasticars #elonmusk
Meanwhile, over at the Vancouver Tesla dealership on 4th Avenue, "FUCK ELON" is accompanied by a really quite well-drawn gunsight symbol.
Update: This graffiti has apparently been painted over with non-matching red paint. Good work, #swasticars
Chasing the far-right by making cowardly concessions and U-turns is generally a losing strategy. Nice race to the far-right corner of the bottom of the barrel, Dave.
If you were in any doubt as to who Dave Eby really is, I hope today made things clear #bcpoli #carbontax
BC Greens should be explicitly campaigning up the left side of the NDP now and yanking this ever-rightward-shifting Overton window back. To do that they're going to have to abandon this kind of talk immediately.
#bcpoli insider on NDP nixing carbon tax: "people get more in personal carbon rebate cheques than they pay in fuel tax costs. I don't get why they did this; it's political insanity. They're literally scrapping a version of UBI, plus it'll put trade/ climate agreements in jeopardy
Quite a bizarre performance by BC Conservatives leader John Rustad on CBC Radio today. For a populist demagogue he's very wooden - he just kept repeating “we have to get rid of the BC NDP with their radical agenda/policies” over & over, like a broken droid. 1/x #bcpoli
Frustratingly CBC's @BellePuri never asked Rustad which BC NDP policies he thinks are "radical." The BC NDP are so captured by the corporations at the trough - arguably more than the BC Liberals before them - that I'd be astonished to find anything really "radical" there...
@BellePuri The only difference is that the BC NDP are doing right-wing corporate capture with a veneer of rainbow crosswalks, while the Cons are corporate capture with social conservatism & toxic masculinity. Which flavour do you want your trickle-up of wealth to come in?
Important WSJ article on Canada's rivers drying up while we keep building dams anyway, including #SiteC. It's paywalled so I'll include the whole article in this 🧵
Diversify into renewables now! BC can't until it ditches the deceptively named Clean Energy Act.#bcpoli #cdnpoli
Had Bing Thom not died prematurely, he would have gone after @AIBCconnected for its gentleman's agreement rule that architects can't criticize other projects. Reportedly a certain major arch'l firm in Vancouver reported Bing to AIBC for his letter opposing #105Keefer. #vanpoli
@AIBCconnected Bing Thom intended to go after AIBC's muzzling rule & publicly ask them:
"What is the point of architecture if there's no discourse? What is the role of the architect in society? Do we have a public responsibility or are we just hired guns?"
@AIBCconnected Bing's death was a terrible loss for public discourse in Vancouver. BTW he also helped us with a fight I co-founded against the proposed downtown casino expansion (we beat the expansion partly thx to him). You could count on him to do the right thing. AIBC tries to block this.