What if you're an environ'l funder in BC, or an ENGO funded by them, & you've developed a friendly relationship w the NDP & so you've muted your criticism of them & their policies while they're in power, & this ultimately blunts your critique of, say, fracking & deforestation?
But what if those NDP policies are significantly contributing to climate change in different ways - fracking, deforestation of old growth, GHG-emitting/resource-hogging #SiteC, all undeniably accelerated under the NDP? How should you assess your work as ENGOs and enviro funders?
Just hearing one too many stories about environmentalists either pushed to go easy on the NDP or asked to praise some of their patently greenwashing or electioneering environmental announcements. We have a serious problem here.
I guess the last question should be: if you are muting criticism of policies & the gov't pushing those policies, & failing to say they're harming climate & environment, are you paradoxically in the business of climate denial despite what you may tell yourself you're doing?

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10 Oct
The NDP's rank betrayal on electoral reform is as bad for BC & our climate as its #SiteC flipflop. First Past the Post makes pivoting to address climate change v. difficult because votes don't represent a full breadth of BC views; unlike in PR, only a narrow band of us is heard.
Votes get heavily weighted at the margin of the 2 largest parties, so not only does a very narrow band of voters acquire virtually all the meaningful votes, 2 things happen:
1. both parties grow more alike
2. $$ lobbyists can easily centre huge $$$$ on influencing those voters
..so in effect, First Past the Post actually materially changes - deforms - each party itself as each chases an easily corruptible/swayable narrow margin of voters at their mutual boundary. And people wonder why the NDP is looking more & more like BC Libs & pursuing fossil fuels.
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8 Oct
Yet another damning #SiteC exposé by @BenParfittCCPA, on who knew about the instability at #SiteC, and when. "Court documents & FOI materials show BC Hydro knew that shale would move at the troubled construction project, yet Hydro proceeded with river diversion". #bcpoli
@BenParfittCCPA ..Even if BC Hydro HAD built its drainage tunnel before it poured the massive concrete buttress on #SiteC's south bank, it's very unlikely it would have been stable or safe to put a reservoir behind. Given the known instability, tho, it's amazing they ignored their OWN schedule..
In short this is a tale about engineers signing off on things they should never have signed off on, & BC Hydro letting them.

If the public ever had trust that engineers at #SiteC know what they're doing or are putting worker & public safety first, this should put an end to that.
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5 Oct
Treaty 8 First Nations have had to watch ancestral lands dug up for the future reservoir of the troubled #SiteC dam. To grasp the sheer size of that needless reservoir, a photo essay. Here is one of the shipping container huts full of archaelogical artefacts.. #bcpoli #bcelxn2020 Image
Inside are bankers boxes - tens of thousands of them - full of artefacts dug up during #SiteC work. Box after box after box. They're being held by BC Archaeology Branch. I was sent these photos by a friend; these are his ancestral lands. What are we doing, BC? #bcpoli #bcelxn2020 ImageImage
..Shipping containers and bankers boxes full to the brim with a people's history and culture. The scale of the disruption is staggering. And it's all for a dam we did not need, & whose alternatives are cheaper & would not have violated Indigenous or Treaty rights. #SiteC #bcpoli Image
Read 6 tweets
4 Oct
Funny, I was just about to say something about sexism & misogyny around this dam project when this arrived. Dreck like this doesn't deter us, boys; we are dealing with far worse than you on #SiteC. Also, how many fallacies can you pack into one email? Image
I have a huge collection of these. It's hilarious & telling that he focuses on the woman who uploaded the petition (LeadNow just lists the name of whoever uploaded it - which is annoying) & imagines there isn't a whole group behind this. I guess he's calling us all the C word?
He has also managed to pack into this one sad message the sunk cost fallacy, the fallacy that the project is "half done," and... "billion dollar"? If only. Bud, you mean multibillion, right? You mean $20 billion, perhaps.
Read 8 tweets
1 Oct
More intel from #SiteC that you won't hear in the media because no one will go on the record (& if I worked at the dam I wouldn't risk facing BC Hydro's $1500/hr lawyers either): the huge concrete buttress they've poured is moving at the rate of ~1mm per day.. #bcpoli #BCelxn2020
If @bchydro disagrees, perhaps it can rebut this intel by providing the public with detailed info including any LIDAR measurements they have taken at #SiteC? Their tardy reports of July 31 which admit to serious foundation problems seem deliberately vague. So please, correct me.
@bchydro ..The overwhelming secrecy around #SiteC - which has been remarked on by international dam experts - starts to look quite suspicious in itself & doesn't breed public confidence. This is OUR project after all; the billions being spent are ours. #bcpoli
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30 Sep
Activism on an issue is almost always in conflict with political partisanship. I don't see why this is so difficult to understand, but the fact that it seems opaque to so many is sort of evidence of how much things have changed in the past few decades. This used to be understood.
This is a blunter version of an earlier thread.

If you're a political partisan but are fighting an issue - housing, Site C, whatever - your allegiances are split & your strategies will be different than if you weren't a partisan. You won't seek traction against your party.
This situation is particularly dire under First Past the Post, which is a system designed to support larger parties & pull them all to some sort of artificial "centre" while virtually disqualifying smaller parties. Many won't vote for 3rd parties due to FPTP's lesser evil logic.
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