Wednesday, July 30, 2014

IDLE NO MORE CANADA- WHAT THE F**K FIRST NATIONS? u sell out 4 $$$$ deal with China 4 Oil?AND DISS OILSANDS?? sigh...u break Canadians heart-we believed in u- say it ain't so- so many tribes suffering in isolation- and now this???- CANADA'S GREEN PARTY PRESIDENT SIDES AGAINST HAMAS, Hezbollah, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Qatar, Saudis and African monsters/Fracking/Oil/One Billion Rising... what a world of horrors and tears.. along with cheers..One Billion Rising- FACE IT U CAN'T EMBRACE GAY LOVED ONES IF U LOVE HAMAS- Paul Estrin’s essay — “Why Gaza makes me sad

-AUGUST 18TH... seriously??? after how badly greenpeace betrayed u and our Canada... Idle No More of the North... please don't let them use u .... please don't...

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AUGUST 25 - SERIOUSLY??  ONCE AGAIN THE MOST ABUSIVE COUNTRY ON OIL-COAL BLAH BLAH BLAH OUTSIDE CHINA- ACTORS roll in2 Canada- hey fix ur own oil mess... God look what u have allowed 2 be done in the USA and a new fracking mess in California (where earthquake lines live???)- come on... DiCaprio slammed over a documentary

Canada News.Net Monday 25th August, 2014
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio has been slammed by oil industry bosses in Canada over an upcoming documentary.

The "Titanic" star recently travelled to the country's Alberta province with director Darren Aronofsky to research a film highlighting the effects of oil sands drilling.

However, local trade representatives criticised the two men, saying celebrities' interest in environmental concerns is a passing "fad", reports contactmusic.com.

"Like Canadians, we are growing tired of the fad of celebrity environmentalists coming into the region for a few hours or a few days, and offering their ideas and solutions to developing this resource," said a spokesman for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers.

Alberta's Energy Minister Diana MCQueen also responded to the Hollywood duo's visit, saying: "We respect people's right to their opinions. At the same time, we believe reasonable people recognise the world needs all forms of energy, including fossil fuels, developed responsibly to meet its needs.

"Aside from the economic opportunities the oil sands create for Albertans and Canadians, the taxes and royalties generated from the oil-sands development provide funding for the infrastructure and programs that contribute to Canada's high standard of living," she added.
- See more at: http://www.canadanews.net/index.php/sid/225071745#sthash.4bauaDuc.dpuf

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Greenpeace Canada changes stance on whale hunt to focus on blocking Arctic oil development
National Affairs Reporter
 
An environmentalist organization famous for confronting and interrupting whale hunts around the world has thrown its support behind one taking place in northern Canada, though it may have something to do with blocking oil industry developments, rather than an internal softening of its wildlife protection mandate.
Greenpeace Canada recently announced it was in full support of a traditional whale hunt conducted by Inuit fishermen from Clyde River, Nunavut, adding that the stance is laid out in the group's Policy on Indigenous Rights.
"Greenpeace respects the rights of Clyde River and other Indigenous communities to sustainable, traditional hunting and fishing,” said Greenpeace Canada’s Arctic campaigner Farrah Khan in a statement.
But Greenpeace’s outright approval of the whale hunt raises questions about a more publicized issue – the international opposition to Canada’s seal hunt. Greenpeace Canada has been at the forefront of groups that have pushed for a ban on sealing – a stance that has brought significant financial and public hardships to indigenous communities that held traditional hunts for the purpose of subsistence.
It seems on the outset that Greenpeace Canada and Nunavut’s Inuit communities would make strange bedfellows on this issue, though it seems there are larger matters at play.
As the National Post reported this weekend, six boats hunted and killed a pregnant bowhead whale on Aug. 3 – the community's first such hunt in more than a century.
Though that may be a bit of a misnomer. It was Clyde River's first hunt in 100 years, but northern communities have held annual bowhead whale hunts since the late 1990s, when the federal government overturned a previous ban as part of the Nunavut and Inuvialuit Land Claim Agreements.
The Clyde River hunt is one of three permitted this year. That the community of 900 was given a permit is surely a big deal for them, but if it was not Clyde River it would have been another community getting the nod.
Still, it seems odd that the hunt for a mammal considered endangered received public support from Greenpeace itself.
As Farrah Khan said in her statement, "Massive commercial whale hunts depleted bowhead whale populations in Baffin Bay and distressed many communities that rely on whales for subsistence. It has taken many years for whale populations to begin to recover."
She went on to state that Baffin Bay, the area where the hunt occurred, is a "critical habitat for bowhead whales" and should be protected from recently-approved oil and gas testing. In other words, if whale hunting in Baffin Bay is good, then oil and gas developments are bad.
"We urge the National Energy Board and the Federal government to protect this region from seismic testing and oil drilling operations. It would be a tragedy to see whale populations decimated and traditional practices devastated once again," she said.
If Greenpeace's position statement makes it seem they support Indigenous Rights because it benefits their anti-oil development stance, it's because that is at least partially the case. Greenpeace Canada's Policy on Indigenous Rights notes that point directly.
The policy adds that the group is aware of "the great potential for environmental justice as a result of better alliances between environmentalists (including Greenpeace) and Indigenous Peoples". Makes sense, on that point the two groups surely agree.
But Greenpeace Canada has a complicated relationship with the country's northern community, specifically its history of opposing the country's seal hunt. Their opposition may have been focused on commercial sealing ventures but admitted damage to traditional indigenous hunts.
"Our campaign against commercial sealing did hurt many, both economically and culturally. The time has come to set the record straight," Greenpeace Canada executive director Joanna Kerr confessed in a Nunatsiaq News editorial in June.
"In the eight months since I took on the challenging role of executive director for Greenpeace Canada, one issue has come up again and again from staff across the country: a deep desire to make amends with Indigenous peoples for past mistakes, to decolonize ourselves, and to better communicate our policies and practices going forward."
The editorial confesses to playing an accidental role in demonizing the indigenous seal hunt. Though as the National Post notes, northern community leaders have been hesitant to reach out for the olive branch – reasonable considering the hardships the international sealing opposition has caused them.
Still, Greenpeace Canada’s sights are set on bigger fish, with the launch of a pointed campaign against the National Energy Board's recent decision to allow oil exploration in the northern waterway. There's no better ally for them than Canada's Inuit communities. Even if that means publicly supporting one whale hunt while continuing to intervene in hunts elsewhere.
Strange bedfellows, indeed.


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IDLE NO MORE CANADA- WHAT THE F**K???- u deal with China 4 Oil???? - u betray millions and millions of Canadians who stepped up and supported u and our environment- entrusting u with our nature- some tribes will die 2 save environment- others sell out??? WTF??? CANADA'S BROKEN HEART
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SERIOUSLY?????    BELOVED IDLE NO MORE – BREAKINGR HEARTS - FIRST NATIONS GROUP OF CANADA JUST SIGNED $$$BILLION WITH CHINA...SERIOUSLY... and ya all better be Canadians...because USA worst pollutants on the planet... and EU comes close second after China...

Pipeline protest pedals into town
Aug 3 2014 — Kelly Roche — Sun Media — A 10-week cycling journey protesting a massive pipeline project ended at the Human Rights Monument Saturday. “There’s a lot of different reasons that people are upset,” said Energy East Resistance Ride coordinator Alex Guest. Among their concerns: water, land, and climate change.
http://www.ottawasun.com/2014/08/02/pipeline-protest-pedals-into-town











CANADIANS ARE POLITE-PASSIVE??? I DON'T THINK SO??


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEsk8b09cQM

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WTF?????? – NOT USA- NOT CHINA- NOT INDIA-NOT RUSSIA ETC. …. Australia is called the worst polluting country on the planet… and Canada- shame on all of u

http://nova0000scotia.wordpress.com/2014/12/09/wtf-not-usa-not-china-not-india-not-russia-etc-australia-is-called-the-worst-polluting-country-on-the-planet-and-canada-shame-on-all-of-u/


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NOTE: top pollunting countries on the planet- Notice Canada with only 36 Million does NOT count-darkest 2 lightest brown
 


IDLE NO MORE CANADA-   Stoney Nakoda First Nation signs 'huge' oil deal with Chinese firm July 29 2014 and betray all Canadians who give a sheeet about our environment- u talk down Canada's Oil Sands... and then backhand a deal with China...






Canada First Nations- Anti Fracking Protests


Alberta Oils Sands and IDLE NO MORE- FIRST NATIONS FIGHT





IDLE NO MORE- SAVE CANADA'S ENVIRONMENT






Wisdom Greed- Evil versus Good Decent and Respectful








Alberta First Nation signs oil and gas deal with Chinese firm
Nakoda Stoney Nation signed agreement with Hong Kong-based Huatong Petrochemical Holdings Ltd.


July 29, 2014
by The Canadian Press



CALGARY—A First Nation says it has signed a deal with a Chinese company to explore and develop oil and natural gas on its land near Calgary.
The Nakoda Stoney Nation says it has signed an agreement with Hong Kong-based Huatong Petrochemical Holdings Ltd.
Under terms of the deal, Huatong is to provide the funding and Nakoda Oil & Gas Inc. is to be the primary operator of the joint venture.
The Stoney reserve at Morley is about 60 kilometres west of Calgary.
The First Nation says the Jumping Pound gas field has produced significant quantities of natural gas since 1951.
The Nakoda Stoney Nation includes members of the Bearspaw, Chiniki and Wesley bands.
Jul292014

Alberta’s Stoney Nakoda Agree To Massive Oil & Gas Deal With Chinese Firm



Alberta’s Stoney Nakoda First Nations band have signed a massive deal with Huatong Petrochemical Holdings Ltd. which would allow the Chinese-based firm to explore and develop oil and gas deposits over nearly 49,000 hectares of First Nations land.
Nakoda Oil & Gas Inc. will be the primary operator for the joint venture. Bruce Labelle, chief of the Chiniki Nation, told reporters: ”The magnitude of this new agreement between Huatong and the Stoney Nations will hopefully bring us one step closer to self-sufficiency for our nation and people.” The Chiniki are part of the Stoney Nakoda Nation.

(Written by: N. Reitmayer; Original information source: CBC http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/stoney-nakoda-first-nation-signs-huge-oil-deal-with-chinese-firm-1.2720827)

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Alberta band signs energy deal with Chinese firm

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Chief Ernest Wesley of the Wesley Nation, Chief Bruce Labelle of the Chiniki Nation, the managing director of Huatong Petrochemical Holdings Ltd., Alick Au, and Chief Darcy Dixon of the Bearspaw Nation have signed a joint venture agreement to develop and explore Stoney Nakoda territory for oil and gas.
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CALGARY – A First Nation says it has signed a deal with a Chinese company to explore and develop oil and natural gas on its land near Calgary.
The Stoney Nakoda First Nation says it has signed an agreement with Hong Kong-based Huatong Petrochemical Holdings Ltd.
Under the terms of the deal, Huatong is to provide the funding and Nakoda Oil & Gas Inc. is to be the primary operator of the joint venture.
The Stoney reserve at Morley is about 60 km west of Calgary.
The First Nation says the Jumping Pound gas field has produced significant quantities of natural gas since 1951.
The Stoney Nakoda Nation includes members of the Bearspaw, Chiniki and Wesley bands.

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Foreign investment rules hurting oil sands, especially small players: study

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Rules imposed on foreign state-owned investment in the oil sands are having some unintended consequences in the oil patch, says a new study by the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy



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·  Idle No More group in Akwesasne protests fracking - Montreal ...

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About a dozen people from an Idle No More group based on the Akwesasne Mohawk reserve are marching today against shale gas exploration.


·  fracking at Idle No More

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DIEPPE, NEW BRUNSWICK - Yesterday, Upriver Environment Watch called a press conference at the Super 8 motel in Dieppe, New Brunswick. Attended by about 50 people ...

·  48 Elsipogotg Anti-Fracking Solidarity Actions - Idle No More

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45 Elsipogtog Anti-Fracking Actions and Events are confirmed and many more are being organized! Check the list below or view them all on a map on the #IdleNoMore ...

·  6 things you need to know about the Idle No More movement ...

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Activist group Idle No More gets busy again in Canada. Indigenous tribes of Canada plan day of protest for Monday, vow they're just getting started

·  Australia, No Fracking Way. Idle No More | Facebook

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Australia, No Fracking Way. Idle No More. 287 likes · 10 talking about this. G'day everyone..This page is set up to show the OZ Gov that we don't want...

·  Idle No More joins fracking protest out east by taking stand ...

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In a show of solidarity for their counterparts out east, Idle No More took to downtown Calgary Friday evening.

·  Idle No More Anti Fracking Micmac Support Oct 18 2013 - YouTube

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A Quick response was created to the attacks by the RCMP in Newton, NB against peaceful protesters of the Micmak nation, who are attempting to stop ...

·  Idle No More group in Akwesasne protests fracking - News - MSN CA

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About a dozen people from an Idle No More group based on the Akwesasne Mohawk reserve are marching today against shale gas exploration. They blocked the Seaway ...

·  New Brunswick anti-fracking clash could lead to Idle No More ...

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Read 'New Brunswick anti-fracking clash could lead to Idle No More’s next big moment' from our blog Daily Brew on Yahoo News Canada. A massive clash between RCMP ...

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We’re prepared to die to protect lands:chiefs
By Maria BabbageCP — Jul 29 2014

TORONTO - Aboriginal people in Ontario are prepared to lay down their lives to protect their traditional lands from any unwanted development, a group of First Nations chiefs said Tuesday.
Five aboriginal chiefs served notice on the Ontario and federal governments, developers and the public that they'll assert their treaty rights over their traditional territory and ancestral lands.
That includes the rights to natural resources — such as fish, trees, mines and water— deriving benefit from those resources and the conditions under which other groups may access or use them, which must be consistent with their traditional laws, said Ontario Regional Chief Stan Beardy.
"All those seeking to access or use First Nations lands and resources have, at a minimum, a duty to engage, enquire and consult with First Nations with the standards of free, prior and informed consent," he said.
"We will take appropriate steps to enforce these assertions."
Tuesday's declaration follows a Supreme Court of Canada ruling in late June which awarded 1,700 square kilometres of territory to British Columbia's Tsilhqot'in First Nation, providing long-awaited clarification on how to prove aboriginal title.
The ruling also formally acknowledged the legitimacy of indigenous land claims to wider territory beyond individual settlement sites.
But in a separate decision a few weeks later, the court upheld the Ontario government's power to permit industrial logging on Grassy Narrows First Nation's traditional lands. Grassy Narrows is different from the Tsilhqot'in decision because it involves treaty land, not aboriginal title.
The court argued that only Ottawa has the power to take up the land because treaty promises were made with the federal Crown.
The high court ruled that the province doesn't need the federal government's permission to allow forestry and mining activity under an 1873 treaty that ceded large swaths of Ontario and Manitoba to the federal government.
The Ontario chiefs who spoke out on Tuesday said the provincial and federal governments haven't respected the agreements their ancestors signed more than a century ago, which gives First Nations the right to assert jurisdiction over lands and resources.
Aboriginal communities have seen what Canadian and Ontario laws have done to their land over the last 147 years, Beardy said.
"The land has become sick," he said. "We become sick. We become poor, desperate and dying."
The people of Grassy Narrows First Nation are still suffering from mercury poisoning decades after the Wabigoon river around their land was contaminated by a local paper mill, he said.
Grand Chief of Treaty #3, Warren White, argued that Prime Minister Stephen Harper recognizes the state of Israel, but not the lands of Canada's aboriginal peoples.
"He needs to have the same principles that he's saying about Israel lands to Treaty 3 territory and native lands in Canada," White said.
"Clean up your own backyard before you go and spill a lot of money into disasters in other countries."
Grand Chief Harvey Yesno of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation added that the province's aboriginal people will draw a line in the stand, put a stake in the ground and tie themselves to it if that's what it takes to protect their land from unwanted resource development.
"We're no longer just going to be civilly disobedient. We're going to defend our lands, and there's a big difference there," he said.
"Our young people are dying, our people are dying. So let's die at least defending our land."
Aboriginal communities don't want to harm others, said Beardy. But they'll do what they must to stop an incursion on their lands, such as forming human blockades to stop the clearcutting of trees, he said.
"Anything that happens on our aboriginal homeland now, they must consult with us," said Roger Fobister Sr., chief of Grassy Narrows First Nation. "Even if they're going to cut down one tree, they better ask us."



http://www.nationalnewswatch.com/2014/07/29/ontario-first-nations-prepared-to-lay-down-their-lives-to-protect-lands-chiefs/#.U9j-pEDQrPp

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 ENVIRONMENT MATTERS- BUT SO DOES INTEGRITY.... imho- in our Canada women equal men... and our gay brothers, mothers, sisters, cousins, friends mean just as much - in our Canada...... environment matters... and so do Canadians...especially our children



POINT OF ORDER-  U CANNOT BE GAY.... AND CHEER 4 HAMAS AND PALESTINE, IRAN, SYRIA, LIBYA, IRAQ, AFRICAS, QATAR AND SAUDIS..... us just cannot....








how incredible... the bravery Of Canada’s Green's Party President- 4 pointing 2 the disgrace that is HAMAS...... Greenie President- Estrin may just save the Green party with a rare thing... called integrity 2 many Canadians..... GOD KNOWS GREENPEACE IS BEING SUED AS A TERROR ORGANIZATION...ON MANY FRONTS... BUT DELIBERATELY HUGGING HAMAS???? AREN'T THERE ANY GAY BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF THE GREEN PARTY??? GETCHA CANADA ON WHY DON'T YA...

When we think on how we fought 4 Elizabeth May (would never vote Green... they are way 2 disorganized and trendy) as a woman and her party 2 be part of Canada's debate process- well that's about as useful as titties on a bull- thank u very much Elizabeth May.... We considered Elizabeth May on the same lines as our beloved Hilary Rodham Clinton and her horrific betrayal by the Democratic party (and we can all see how that's working)....


ARTICLE:
Estrin’s post, which he stressed reflect his own personal view, is anything but neutral. He is critical not only of Hamas, but of many people in the western world who turn a blind eye to its actions and who jump on an anti-Israel bandwagon.
“Gaza is giving children grenades…and asking their citizens to be sheep to the slaughter,” wrote Estrin.
“Gazan officials tell their people to be killed while they hide in bomb shelters. Cowards? No, this is worse than cowardice. It is vile and ugly and they should be put to shame. Instead, it is Israel who is put to shame.”
Estrin wrote that Israel is threatened by Hamas and is “doing all it can with an untenable situation.” He added that he is “sick and tired” of the “hypocrisy” of people who focus their anger on Israel, even though larger conflicts occur elsewhere

“Throughout the world, injustices happen on a near-daily basis. But these same activists, when they hear the cry of the moment, if it is anti-Israel it is an easy band-wagon to get on, to get their anti-Israel war-paint on and join their friends between potlucks, veggie smoothies and coffee breaks.”
Estrin’s position — and the strong choice of words sprinkled throughout his 2,200-word post — have infuriated some members of the Green party

Elizabeth May distances herself as Green Party president faces backlash for strongly worded blogpost on Gaza
Mark Kennedy, Postmedia News | July 30, 2014 10:19 AM ET



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Why Gaza makes me sad
25 July 2014 - 9:41pm Paul Estrin’s essay — “Why Gaza makes me sad
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Comment from the moderator:
Views expressed on Green Party members' blogs are representative of the members themselves and are not official party policy. The following motion was passed by the Green Party membership at the 2014 Convention on July 20, 2014.
G14-P58 Israel – Palestine Conflict
Be it resolved that the GPC urges the immediate cessation of hostilities between Israel and Palestine. The GPC will adopt a posture of engaged neutrality, opening all available diplomatic avenues in both Palestine and Israel to press for a peaceful resolution to the conflict consistent with the GPC’s commitment to justice and custom of speaking truth to power.
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The history of the people who live in Gaza is something that should infuriate.
(Before I go on, a disclaimer as seen below as well: These are my personal thoughts and my personal perspective and do not necessarily speak to the thoughts and persectives of the membership and direction of the Green Party of Canada.)
We could delve into their history of the Egyptian rule over Gaza, or further back during the rule of the Ottoman Empire, or we could even go as far back as biblical histories of the people that lived in that same region, for which some of the place names have stayed unchanged for millennia.
Instead, we can just look at what has happened since Israel left Gaza. Yes, it was occupied by Israel, from 1967 to 2005, 38 years. And then, in a decision that rocked many people, Israel said that although it did not see a partner for peace in Gaza, and although Israel has a very clear policy that it will trade land for recognition and peace, Israel decided to leave, fighting its own citizens, showing once more that it sticks to its word about the settlements not being permanent, but instead something to be removed painfully if peace is achievable to be had.
And then Hamas took power. It has nearly been ten years. Since August 2005, Gazans have been in control of their own destiny. Some might say otherwise, yet Gazans have their own government and they are their own people: If their neighbours, Egypt and Israel, close their borders to Gaza, one must look to a Gaza run by a terrorist organization cum government that teaches and propagates hate, death and destruction to understand why.
Since then, stories of resources being used, such as concrete supposed to be used for infrastructure for civil use instead used for purposes of terrors, or stories of repression of the people there by its own government, or stories of how under Hamas rule people no income or ways to support themselves … I’m reminded of Bill Clinton’s remark “It’s the economy, stupid” … but instead of showing openness to the world, or managing, or caring ... Gaza has instead shown that it is not interested in peace, in building a stable economy, in a secure future.
The Gazan government has had ample opportunity over these past years, nearly a decade, to alter its ways, change its mantra of death to the Jews, and become respectable caretakers of the people in their charge.
They have not.
Surely they could have done more. Should have done more.
We can forgive them for at first being overjoyed with the departure of the Israeli forces, and them as a terrorist organization unable to initially take up the challenge of good governance.
We can forgive them for not immediately changing their charter. In Canada and elsewhere, national charters protect the people. In Gaza, the first article calls for the death of Israel and the Jew. (Let me quote just a bit: “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it." I would like to believe all of us in our organization can see how atrocious such a statement is, and that we would believe in things like the right of people to not be obliterated …)
They said, they being the Hamas government newly in power, they needed time. They have had nearly a decade. What is the holdup … oh, wait, the hate and desire to obliterate.
So, let us fast forward past a decade’s worth of battles, wars, incursions, etc.
How much aide has Israel given Gaza? How much has the world given Gaza?
Giving aid is worthwhile, a noble cause. But, has it gone to the people that need it? Ten years …
So, now, this month, what do we see:
Israel is more threatened than even because its neighbour, instead of caring about the welfare and well-being of its citizens, cares about the cause of killing, of carrying the banner of martyrdom, and of watching its fellow people die.
And yet, these are the same people who are embraced and loved by the international community, with marches on Parliament Hill in Canada’s capital, and in cities throughout the world, holding banners and chanting about the destruction of the state of Israel and of death to the Jews.
Meanwhile, Gaza uses UN locations to launch or house weapons … yet the international community cries out, a day after the UN itself admitted this and said that this practise puts at risk those in these facilities given that these places then are not safe havens but rather places of war to be targeted ..
Meanwhile, Gaza is giving children grenades … and asking their citizens to be sheep to the slaughter.
Gazan officials tell their people to be killed while they hide in bomb shelters.
Cowards? No, this is worse than cowardice. It is vile and ugly and they should be put to shame.
Instead, it is Israel who is put to shame. It is easy enough to do.
In our culture, often activists are against colonialism, yet forget that their ancestors only a handful of generations ago partook in just that, enabling them to live the secure lives they currently enjoy, and the lives the live is at the benefit of economic colonialism …
… to critique, is it better to know your roots and who you are, or is ignorance better so that you can accuse the other without seeing just how similar the other is to you?
It looks very bad for Israel. 800+ Gazans dead. 1000s injured. Lots of destruction.
Meanwhile, in Syria, how many hundreds of thousands of people, including so many Palestinians, are dead or injured … where are the inflammatory protests …  
Meanwhile, throughout the world, injustices happen on a near-daily basis. But these same activists, when they hear the cry of the moment, if it is anti-Israel it is an easy band-wagon to get on, to get their anti-Israel war-paint on and join their friends between potlucks, veggie smoothies and coffee breaks.
Ask them about a warlord or abuser in another part of the world, I highly doubt they will know .. or care .. but Netanyahu, or Sharon, those are names they know and loath.
I always found it interesting, the focus on such a small country .. is it because then it is easy to know who is who, who to love, who to hate, as opposed to so many other regions and countries many, many times larger that have atrocities of a scale much larger than what has been seen in that one oh-so-small strip of the Middle East known as Israel?
I am sure that many people I know will be upset for my having the gall to write these words.
I am simply sick and tired of having to hear such hypocrisy and twisted logic.
I am reminded of a seminar I attended at the University of Victoria a decade ago.
The seminar was a group of Iranian professors who had fled Iran after the revolution, and a central theme that repeated itself was the image of the protests and marches in the city of Teheran.
I remember how one of the lecturers painfully spoke about the European marchers that were so caught up in the cause of overthrowing the Shah that they were all chanting “Allah-hu akbar” at the tops of their lungs, and how she was looking at these foreigners and wondering if they had any idea just what this chant was going to mean for her country.
… That history continues to be written, and it is a sad one.
We want to see the world as black and white, right and wrong.
We want to support the under-dog. Who doesn’t.
But, terror is terror. Evil is evil.
When Gazans are asked what they want, they want peace. They want to work in Israel.  They want security for their children and themselves. They don’t want to live in the terror they have under Hamas … and yet the world cheers on Hamas that spends the money and resources needed for infrastructure, housing, hospitals, schools, and buys weapons, builds tools for terror.. I cannot help but feel sad for this world. And we, as a green movement, should not be supporting such a movement or government .. yes, their flag is green, but that is where the resemblance stops. Or at least, that is where it should stop.
On the other side of the coin, Israel is doing all it can with an untenable situation. The world media vilifies it, to the point that when those firing missiles into its borders and sending militias into its land need to see that they cannot do this, it is Israel, and not Gaza, that feels the world’s hate. When al-Jazeera does a more balanced job than CNN, and let’s not talk about here in Canada our media, how that has been … …
Military experts look at Israel’s military strategy: No carpet bombing, no quick actions, but instead pinpoint strikes whilst warning the enemy in advance of what their plans are, and slow movements.. they, military people the world over, say that Israel’s military is the most moral of them all, above the British, above the Americans, but at what price, when the enemy knows no qualms, and would rather see hundreds of their own people die for a media blitz against Israel than do all it can to save a single life. What other military calls up the enemy on their phone to tell them that their building will be bombed, to kindly leave, yes, you have enough time to leave, just thought it would be the neighbourly thing to do … anyone else in war, and that is what Hamas is calling this time in Gaza, would simply bomb, kill and destroy.
And that is it in a nutshell: Whilst Israel does all that is in its power to protect the lives of all its citizens and the lives of those it is attacking, Gaza does all in its power to have all the more die.
We need to re-examine our priorities if we are marching in the streets. Unless we want to see another Mullah amongst us, where other religions aside from a certain variety of Islam are not allowed, where synagogues are used as latrines and garbage dumps and Christians are living in constant fear.
For those of you who would say this is ridiculous, look at all the countries surrounding Israel and read their track record. And yes, Jordan up until Jerusalem was freed was using synagogues as garbage dumps and as latrines, it is history, look it up and understand how Israel is different, a land where all religions are free to practise and all its citizens are citizens … how many Palestinian refugees are still not the citizens of their countries of residence, the countries they were born in … But, that is a comment for another article for another time, how the world doesn’t actually care about the Palestinians, but rather cares about showing they care about the Palestinians. Though it is interesting, in that it resounds so similarly to nations and people saying they care about Jews and are appalled by anti-Semitism, but when violence occurs … Again, another article for another time.
Priorities.
One day, and soon, I hope that Gaza's government will act appropriately and show that the life of every single person is precious. But I fear that our world’s international media, international agencies and all the activists who noble actions are grossly misplaced, although nonetheless noble, they are simply enabling the terrorists, and so all they are having reinforced is that this is a strategy that works.
I hope and pray for a peace. That the borders will open. That trade starts up. That the international airport in Gaza can be reopened. That Gazans can retake their old jobs and through economic endeavours create and build upon a peace of social and economic unity.
And then maybe the other issues, such as water, air, and environment can be paid the dire attention that is needed.
But I feel that peace will take a miracle. Israel is losing patience, a country cannot live in constant fear without hardliners coming to power ..  oh wait .. and then, while the world watches, Israel will be forced to conduct a military manoeuver, one that perhaps it ought to have made years ago, to then enable reconstruction and a manageable peace. I pray it will not come to that, but if Gaza under Hamas continues its reign of terror, what choice will Israel plausibly have.
Thank you for reading.
These are my personal thoughts and my personal perspective and do not necessarily speak to the thoughts and persectives of the membership and direction of the Green Party of Canada.
Sincerely,
Paul Estrin
Edit: I realize I initially signed this document with my name and title. I have removed my title because I want to make it as clear as possible that my words are my own, what I have written is my perspective.

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Paul Estrin’s essay — “Why Gaza makes me sad” ---- Nailed it !


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Farhad,
Regarding your comment stated above, you accuse Paul of justifying a Genocide. I know this can be a very emotional topic, but I think your emotions are getting the better of you and you are misinterpreting his words.
My interpretation of his statement is that Israel might be forced to take unfortunate military action in order to stop the constant threat of a ruthless terrorist organization (that does not even care about its own people). That is, to stop HAMAS, not the Palestinian people. Paul is not suggesting that the people of Palestine should be targeted.
However, since that Hamas hides behind innocent civilians in a cowardly, despicable, manipulative way in order to purposely endanger innocent civilians, I guess I can partly understand how you might think that taking out HAMAS would mean harming many innocent Palestinian civilians. That would be terrible. That IS currently terrible. But hopefully Israel will be able to better focus their efforts on singling out Hamas targets because Hamas just does not seem to want to negotiate any peace.
Regardless, I do not believe Paul is either suggesting or condoning a Palestinian genocide. Although some unintended victims seem to unfortunatley be unavoidable in this type of war.
I can see how people side with Israel and I can see how people feel for the Palestinans. However, anyone who sides with Hamas is on the wrong side of history.



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It is also posted at the "Centre for Israel and Jewish affairs" website. (google that, plus the title of the article)
Comments allowed via Facebook.
It is a well written and spot on article in my opinion.


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Paul Estrin should be congratulated for common sense.
He is exposing the loon base in the Green Party.

Arafat figured out how to get rich in the Arab world;

Do a couple of Google searches:
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Backstory: The "Anti-Zionist" mob turns its attentions to Green Party president Paul Estrin
Terry Glavin More from Terry Glavin
Published on: July 29, 2014Last Updated: July 29, 2014 4:49 PM EDT

As has been obvious for some long while now, there is a debilitating strain of “anti-Zionism” coursing through the arteries of the Canadian Left. It’s so toxic that reputable institutions like the New Democratic Party have ended up with no alternative but to resort to a policy of quarantine, and NDP leader Thomas Mulcair is to be credited for his most recent efforts to inoculate the NDP caucus and the party’s candidate list with an antidote policy: bar, isolate and marginalize.

Ever since Mulcair was elected NDP leader two years ago, erstwhile party loyalists have been whimpering that they will quit the party over their new leader’s offensively even-handed policy on the subject of Israel and Palestine. They threaten to ignore the party’s appeals for funds or to defect altogether to the Green Party, which is conventionally situated on the Left.

Green Party delegates went into their July 19-20 convention in Fredericton with a leadership-endorsed motion that was specifically intended to lure these disaffected “anti-Zionist” New Democrats.

Big mistake.

The motion itself was perfectly unobjectionable, declaring the Green Party’s opposition to the expansion of Israeli settlements in the Palestinian heartland of the West Bank. This put the Greens more or less in the same company on the subject, curiously, as the NDP, the Liberals and even the governing Conservatives. But the justification offered to the CBC by the Greens’ youth wing co-chair Ghaith El-Mohtar, the motion’s author, was that it might “win over former NDP supporters who oppose Thomas Mulcair’s unquestioning support of Israel.”

If that was the plan, Green Party president Paul Estrin wasn’t in on it, and he’s now being buried under the towering obscenities of an “anti-Zionist” dogpile over an essay he wrote last Friday on his personal weblog (hosted at the Green Party home page), titled “Why Gaza Makes Me Sad.” Estrin’s primary transgression appears to be his acknowledgement that the terrorist crime syndicate known as Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip by truncheon and firing squad, is an important reason why Gazans have been suffering so horribly in recent years.

If this poll is anything to go by, the overwhelming majority of Gazans appear to broadly agree with Estrin. But by Monday morning, on Twitter, Facebook and elsewhere, dozens of vicious, unhinged denunciations were being heaped upon him, and it hasn’t let up. Estrin has been called an “IDF spokesman,” a liar, “Anti-Palestinian to the core” and worse (small samplings can be found here and here). The ipolitics columnist Andrew Mitrovica, who has lately become a champion of the “anti-Zionists” and their anti-Mulcair cause, went so far as to insinuate on Monday that in his “long diatribe,” Estrin suggested that “Palestinian children are, in part, responsible for their own deaths.”

While not quite throwing Estrin under the bus, Elizabeth May has quickly distanced herself from him. “I do not agree with him. Those are his personal opinions. Not party policy. . . His views are contrary to #GPC position. We support peace. We condemn violence,” la la la, and this is where everything gets even curiouser.

Agree with it or not, Estrin’s essay, from top to bottom, is most obviously an expression of deep and sincere sympathy for the bloodied and brutalized people of Gaza. You could say it’s sloppy. You could say it overlooks the Israeli government’s irresponsible continuation of the West Bank settlements (which are in no way an immediately relevant issue anyway). You could say a lot of things about it, but at least it doesn’t retreat into the cowardice of some half-baked “neutrality” towards Hamas.

Widespread outbreaks of pathological “anti-Zionist” hysterics tend to erupt whenever the Israeli state asserts its security interests by force of arms, as it is now doing with Operation Protective Edge, and as it did with Operation Pillar of Defense in 2012 and with Operation Cast Lead in 2008-09. It is a pattern that leaves thousands of innocent Palestinians dead, injured, homeless, and further brutalized.

It shouldn’t be controversial to notice, as Estrin does, that the cycles of this pattern tend to be set off by such neighbourly entreaties as barrages of rockets launched at innocent Israeli citizens by a Jew-hating rejectionist cult and protection racket that funds its mischief by diverting international aid intended for the Gazan masses.

That Hamas has persisted in the costly acquisition of ever more deadly missile arsenals should not be anathema to a progressive analysis of the oppression of the people of Gaza.  That Hamas has robbed the Palestinian people to pay for the construction of heavily-fortified underground command bunkers and a vast underground “terror tunnel”  network that has taken the lives of at least 160 child labourers, “prized for their nimble bodies” should not be unmentionable.

But these things are very controversial to speak about out loud, especially if one is an official of, say, the Green Party, so much so as to induce moral panic. That is how far the “anti-Zionist” toxin has spread. It has gotten so that the Canadian Left has lost the practical capacity for a broadly decent and legitimately progressive, pro-peace critique on the question of Israel and Palestine. The hysterics drown out everything else.

The “anti-Zionists” are right about one thing: there isn’t much in the way of a robust and defensible Oppostion critique of Ottawa’s uniquely militant and unashamedly “pro-Israel” posture towards the conflict. The NDP’s Paul Dewar has been reduced to whining that Ottawa is just “rubber stamping everything that comes from Benjamin Netanyahu,” but has nothing to offer beyond a timid insistence that Ottawa should instead be telling Netanyahu that “there are too many civilian casualties and it’s unacceptable.”

When a Green Party president merely allows himself to think out loud in an honest and harmless essay that sets out the reasons why Gaza makes him sad, and for his trouble he’s subjected to a cyberlynching, it should tell you that we’ve entered a realm of moral bedlam. It becomes a nuthouse of the kind that saw the “anti-Zionist” crank, 911 Truther and Moammar Qadaffi devotee Cynthia McKinney elected leader of the Green Party in the United States.

Canada’s Greens will have to find their own way out of this mess, but the sooner they see the merits of the NDP leadership’s interim antidote – quarantine, inoculate, bar, isolate, marginalize – the better.



http://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnists/the-anti-zionist-mob-turns-its-attentions-to-green-party-president-paul-estrin





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 HERE'S REAL ENVIRONMENT IN ACTION...

Energy Minister Andrew Younger, left, Danielle Fong, co-founder and chief scientist at LightSail Energy, and Stan Mason, president of Watts Wind Energy, announce a project Tuesday that will test a new way to store renewable energy. (BEVERLEY WARE / South Shore Bureau)

Princeton grad from Dartmouth nears 'holy grail' of green energy storage
BEVERLEY WARE SOUTH SHORE BUREAU
Published July 29, 2014 - 8:20pm
Last Updated July 30, 2014 - 9:45am

 Energy Minister Andrew Younger, left, Danielle Fong, co-founder and chief scientist at LightSail Energy, and Stan Mason, president of Watts Wind Energy, announce a project Tuesday that will test a new way to store renewable energy. (BEVERLEY WARE / South Shore Bureau)



When Danielle Fong was taking her PhD in plasma physics at Princeton University at the age of 17, she wasn’t driven to be the best — she was driven by an urgency to solve the world’s energy problem.

Though she missed her mother’s cooking back home in Dartmouth — “My mom makes the best omelettes” — Fong focused on her mission to make green energy a practical reality for everyone.

“Solving the energy problem is the problem of my generation,” she said Tuesday.

And the 26-year-old believes she has come up with a way to do that — she just has to prove it to the industrial sector.

Fong believes she has cracked the problem of how to store renewable energy, like wind power, so the resource can still be used when the wind isn’t blowing. Think about it: storage is critical when you’re relying on resources that don’t provide constant energy.

“Energy storage is the holy grail in the … industry,” said Nova Scotia’s Energy Minister Andrew Younger, and its absence has been the limiting factor in green energy’s expansion.

If you can develop technology to provide consistent wind or solar power you “suddenly break the barrier of the limits of renewable energy on the grid,” Younger said.

Fong’s technology is a “world first” and her backers include Bill Gates, France’s Total, which is one of the world’s largest petroleum companies, and the provincial government.

Unsurprsingly, MIT Technology Review named Fong one of its 35 Innovators Under 35 in 2012 for developing this technology, which uses compressed air to store energy. (She started classes at Dalhousie University when she was 12.)

Not only could her invention increase the uptake of green energy, but Fong said it means Nova Scotia could be able to export more of the resource, further shrinking our reliance on fossil fuels.

That means instead of considering growth at the expense of the environment, society will be able to think in terms of “growth with the environment, growth in the environment, (and) growth harnessing the environment,” Fong said.

Her technology will be tested at the former Bowater Mersey mill site in Brooklyn, Queens County, which is now the site of ReNova Scotia Bioenergy Inc.

The former mill is home to another clean energy innovator CelluFuel Inc., which turns low-value wood fibre into renewable diesel fuel.

Fong’s Berkeley, Calif., company LightSail Energy will work with a Dartmouth-based firm to prove her technology over the next 20 years.

“This is by far the coolest project I’ve ever worked on,” the president of Dartmouth’s Watts Wind Energy said.

Stanley Mason’s company will erect a test tower in a month about five kilometres away from the former Bowater mill to get site-specific wind data.

Then his company will build three wind turbines on land owned by the Department of Natural Resources on a hill off Highway 103 outside Liverpool and erect power lines and poles running parallel to Nova Scotia Power’s system directly to the former mill.

There, the unique technology will use compressed air to store energy. The idea for using compressed air isn’t new — but Fong’s method is, allowing greater efficiency than ever before and enabling far larger amounts of energy storage.

She developed a system to inject very fine, yet dense, water spray into the air during compression, which ultimately allows for higher pressure expansion and efficiency.

The system at Bowater will also use industrial waste heat produced by woodchips burned at Nova Scotia Power’s Brooklyn Energy plant and used to power the bioenergy centre.

Fong said adding the waste stream will bring the system’s energy recovery from about 60 per cent to more than 80 per cent.

The power produced by her innovation will feed into the community through Nova Scotia Power’s grid.

“It works in the lab but we haven’t shown it to work in the field in an environment where cold weather occurs and we haven’t shown it to work where we’re harnessing the power of waste heat energy from woodchips or any other industrial source,” Fong said. “This will be a world first.”

The system is expected to begin operating in 2016.

And Fong said investment in renewable energy is already drawing “phenomenal” interest from venture capitalists and inventors.

Her company chose this province over California because “the utilities will work with us, Innovacorp works with us, the economic development agencies work with us,” she said. “What we found is it’s a great place to do business … People are prepared to imagine a future.”

The technology has other applications, including providing energy in undeveloped countries and developing compressed-air vehicles. Fong said those vehicles would recharge quickly and can easily be adapted to also take a fuel.

Mayor Christopher Clarke said the LightSail project means a lot to the Region of Queens.

“It’s so exciting to have world class technology right on our doorstep,” he said. “It’s what we dreamed of when Innovacorp came in on this site,” he said.

Clarke said he believes such projects will help the community grow, especially seeing a facility that supported the traditional forestry for decades transformed to develop technology to be used around the world.

And in a province in which nearly 25 per cent of electricity comes from renewable energy — a figure expected to hit 40 per cent by 2020 — the energy minister said Fong’s invention would reach beyond the Maritimes.

“This isn’t about a small project in Nova Scotia, this is about conquering the world when it comes to wind storage.”







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What open-pen salmon can learn from landlubber lobster
STEWART LAMONT
Published July 29, 2014 - 5:15pm
Last Updated July 29, 2014 - 5:20pm
Waves crash against rock embankments that protect the Escuminac Road against erosion as post-tropical storm Arthur whips the New Brunswick coast on July 5. (DIANE DOIRON / CP)
Earlier this month, the regulatory review panel (Meinhard Doelle and William Lahey) released its draft report on aquaculture.
They concluded the status quo no longer works. Not even a little bit. The panel determined a massive overhaul of the model we know as open-net-pen fish farming is urgently required.
Forty-eight hours later after the release of this seminal report, post- tropical storm Arthur wreaked havoc throughout Nova Scotia with a particular jolt to coastal waters. Amid the power outages and disruption burdening the province, someone posed a fascinating question: Was this Mother Nature weighing in on the panel’s report? Was she suggesting, and by no means delicately: “Professors Doelle and Lahey, have you completed your study? Are you sure you have fully factored in climate change? Because this topic changes everything for generations to come ... .”
Mother Nature does not speak to me all that often, and when she does, I don’t always listen. But from my office situated all of five metres from the Atlantic Ocean on the Eastern Shore, I know what I see on a daily basis.
After 34 years of watching intently, I don’t like this picture. Storms are more frequent and much more severe when they impact us on the coast. When you look out on Shoal Bay and see the riled-up waters and wind action, it is by times a horrifying thing. When you try to imagine farm-raised salmon or trout living in cages in such conditions, crowded beyond belief and all reason, it is truly mystifying.
Observer after observer has asked me one single question: “Why haven’t the so-called sea farmers discovered land in 2014?”
That’s one question I cannot answer. I am guessing they have not been looking all that carefully — perhaps the low cost / no cost leases on the water have been a bit of a distraction. But just because something is given to fish farmers for practically nothing does not mean there aren’t huge costs borne by the rest of us. I’m assuming those “massive externalities,” as the economists like to call them, have not been factored in, ever. It is high time they were tallied up in my coastal opinion. I’ll lend them a calculator.
Adding to the irony — and, trust me, there is plenty of that to go around — lobster stakeholders discovered terra firma long ago. Over the course of the last 25 years, more and more lobster storage has transitioned from the ocean to the land.
Lobster stakeholders pioneered the on-land closed-containment facilities that are now so controversial in feedlot circles.
These on-land lobster facilities are really quite remarkable: we can control water temperature to the precise degree every hour of the day. We can control oxygen content easily and cheaply — and even waste levels with elaborate filtration equipment that is now available straight off the shelf. We can ensure the salinity never changes despite the amount of rainfall, night or day. We can even provide lobster condominiums that replicate the solitary nature of ocean circumstances in which our crustacean guests can chill out, so to speak.
Simply put, we can make our lobster inventory feel completely at home and fully safe regardless of the situation. Neither disease nor predators will ever challenge them. It is a lobster-sustainable world in more ways than one.
That stormy day during when Arthur howled and shut down half the province, there were millions of pounds of premium-quality lobster safely tucked away on land throughout Nova Scotia wondering what the fuss was about. They were absolutely oblivious to the life-threatening conditions their farm-raised-salmon brethren were facing at sea.
The differences in the circumstances of lobster and feedlot salmon and trout are really beyond belief. It is a story not widely known nor fully understood.
Are there actual lessons to be learned here before it is too late? Is it just possible that some of the applied science technology embraced by lobster could also be used for raising salmon and trout? Feedlots transitioned to land are no longer feedlots. That is the bottom line. They would avoid the harsh reality of climate change and their waste would no longer endanger the coast. I dare say it would be a good news story in every sense that we could proudly tell the world.
Yes — I concede — there would be a monthly utility bill to pay for the fish-farm operators. You can be darn sure that would come as a bit of a shock to those folks. They have a business that is first and foremost built on entitlement. Changing that mindset and culture won’t come easily if it ever comes at all. But I am guessing in the grand scheme of things, relative to the risk to our wild fisheries and the future of our coastal communities, this is a very small cost indeed.
We need a sea change in feedlot salmon, if you will. We need it yesterday. Lessons learned in lobster can be provided immediately and free of charge. If only government and those stubborn fish farmers would actually listen for a change, we in the lobster industry could actually help by finding them an on-land solution.
Stewart Lamont is managing director, Tangier Lobster Company
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JULY 29 2014 

They've become terrorists... and Greenpeace needs 2 care about humanity- seriously, we know they want the world's population of children cut by about 70%.... but Greenpeace... we need u 2be humane and obey nations laws..... imho - all the good work u've done is gone 2 sheeet in the last few years... imho

Peter Foster: Greenpeace stands for delay, delay, delay
 Greenpeace’s lawyers claim that the most recent decision against Greenpeace touches on “the right of non-profit organizations such as Greenpeace to disseminate information about environmental protection issues without being sued in the absence of a complete factual basis.”
Financial Post | Business
Greenpeace’s lawyers claim that the most recent decision against Greenpeace touches on “the right of non-profit organizations such as Greenpeace to disseminate information about environmental protection issues without being sued in the absence of a complete factual basis.”
Told to file a defence in Resolute case, Greenpeace instead files appeal

Greenpeace Canada continues to squirm to avoid coming up with a defence against Resolute Forest Products’ $7-million lawsuit alleging “intentional interference with economic relations;” that is, trying to destroy Resolute’s business by pressuring its customers

Last Friday, lawyers for Greenpeace sought leave to appeal the decision of the Divisional Court of Ontario (which had rejected an earlier appeal and told Greenpeace to file a defence, plus pay costs).

The case has significant ramifications for whether radical NGOs will be allowed to continue to spread misinformation, trample over corporate reputations, and destroy business and jobs. This is somewhat related to those over-ballyhooed CRA audits of charitable institutions, although Greenpeace had its charity status removed long ago. In fact, “intentional interference with economic relations” could almost be Greenpeace’s mission statement.

The suit goes back to claims made by Greenpeace about Resolute’s business practices after the radical environmental NGO exited the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement, the deeply flawed 2010 deal under which forestry companies were persuaded that they could buy off their radical opponents by becoming “partners” in plans to sanitize huge swathes of Canada in the name of “environmental protection.” Screw the people who lived there.

To everybody’s surprise, Resolute demonstrated some rare corporate backbone and sued, which led Greenpeace to redouble its attack both through social media, and – more significant – by applying pressure to Resolute’s customers both directly and indirectly, aided by radical cohorts such as ForestEthics, another CBFA signatory.

Greenpeace’s lawyers claim in their latest leave to appeal that Resolute failed to identify anybody who had been “interfered with.” In fact, Greenpeace has sent scores of letters to Resolute’s customers containing thinly disguised threats, and these have been made available to the courts. One such was sent in January to David Paterson, the head of Verso Paper Corp., based in Memphis, Tennessee. Mr. Paterson is significant because he was head of Resolute (then Abitibi Bowater) when it signed the CBFA.

So now he’s reaping the whirlwind.

The letter, from Joanna Kerr, Executive Director of Greenpeace Canada, wanted a meeting ”to discuss Resolute’s forest management practices and how we can help you ensure that your customers are being supplied with the ‘sustainable’ products they prefer and have come to expect.”

Such customer concern!

The letter noted that “Resolute has recently come under a brighter spotlight,” but failed to record that the spotlight had been wielded by Greenpeace. It also pointed out that three of Resolute’s Forest Stewardship Council certificates had been suspended. Since Greenpeace is a founder of the Forest Stewardship Council, this suspension confirms what “social licence” is really all about: bringing corporations to heel.



The letter declared that Resolute had refused to adopt the Movement’s “science based conservation plans,” and, instead of “collaborating,” had launched its $7 million lawsuit. “I suggest,” concluded Ms. Kerr, “that customers should consider these issues closely when assessing and/or renewing contracts with Resolute.”

Greenpeace’s lawyers claim that the most recent decision against Greenpeace touches on “the right of non-profit organizations such as Greenpeace to disseminate information about environmental protection issues without being sued in the absence of a complete factual basis.”

But the real issue is that of disseminating job-destroying misinformation. Meanwhile, not only does the “factual basis” appear pretty solid, but Greenpeace may have other costly legal clouds gathering on the horizon.

In April of this year, Chief Earl Klyne of the Seine River First Nation in Northwest Ontario wrote to Greenpeace refuting its claims that Resolute had shown “disregard” for indigenous communities. Indeed, he noted that the company had good relations with his people. Chief Klyne made no bones about the fact that Greenpeace “does not speak or represent us on anything.”

The punch line that must have sent a chill through Greenpeace’s vast, global anti-development bureaucracy was “We will be watching the final outcome of the [Resolute] lawsuit with interest as it makes allegations that may form the basis for a similar lawsuit that we could consider launching against Greenpeace should you not cease your publishing of falsehoods regarding our rights and your unnecessary interference in our negotiations and continuing partnership with companies such as Resolute.”

I think Chief Klyne is accusing Greenpeace of “intentional interference.” They have an important case to answer. Once, that is, they have exhausted every other legal, PR and corporate arm-twisting option.



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In 2001, Canada became the first country in the world to sanction the medicinal use of marijuana. The new law allowed severely ill patients — with a doctor’s approv­al — to apply to Health Canada to grow and smoke pot
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Ontario to seek probe in mercur y poisoning


MARIA BABBAGE THE CANADIAN PRESS


TORONTO —
Ontario will push for a review of a board that over­sees compensation for residents of two First Nations still suffering health issues from mercury pois­oning that occurred five decades ago, Aboriginal Affairs Minister David Zimmer said Tuesday.

The minister said he will work with the federal government and Wabaseemoong First Nation to gain their approval for a review that would look at the level of benefits provided by the Mercury Disability Board, which has come under fire by aboriginal groups.

“I think Ontarians, First Nation memb ers and indeed all Cana­dians . . . feel in their hear ts that something has to be done," Zim­mer
said.

Ontario would also look at options for more treatment for Grassy Narrows First Nation res­idents in their community, he said, as they currently have to
travel long distances for medical help.

Water around Grassy Narrows has b een contaminated with mer­cury since a lo cal pap er mill dumped an estimated 10 tonnes of neurotoxins into the system between 1962 and 1970.

Z immer said he was stirred during his three-hour talk on Sunday with former Grassy Nar­rows chief Steve Fobister, who suffers from the debilitating neur­ological effects of mercury pois­oning and has b een pushing for the review.

“Hearing directly from him in a very human way what mercury poisoning is all about, it moves the soul and it moves everyone to want to do something to combat it ," he said.

Fobister said he’ll end the hun­ger strike that he started Monday to spur action on the issu e.

“The minister’s statement has brought some measure of com­fort, but we still have work to do," he said.
Fobister said he wants to s ee greater participation from both levels of government to be “seri­ously committed, not just to play political and legal games with the persisting problems that we’re dealing with at this time."

The Mercury Disability Board, which includes both levels of government, was formed in 1985 as part of an out-of-court settle­ment reached between Grassy Narrows and the Wabaseemoong Independent Nations and Ottawa, the province and two pap er com­panies over mercury-related claims.

The Grassy Narrows First Na­tion said Monday it had obtained an unreleased report that found the board’s criteria to determine whether s omeone had symptoms consistent with mercury poisoning were based on old science.

The report, which was commis­sioned by the board in 2009, also said there was “no doubt" people in the nor thwestern Ontario com­munity of roughly 1,600 near
Kenora suffered from mercury­related neurological disorders.

It found the board recognized only 38 per cent of the cases identified by other experts, noting the discrepancies “are due to different criteria used for evalu­ations" than those employed by Japanese experts who examined the community between 1975 and 2 004.

Zimmer said he’ll call federal officials Tuesday afternoon to get the ball rolling and travel Aug. 6 to Grassy Narrows.

“It’s appropriate after 29 years — as you would any organization — to review (the board), to bring it up to date, to get the best science that we can possibly get, to get the best advice on how the board should operate," he said.

First Nations and governments have been talking for the last 50 years about the issue and it can’t go on forever, Fobister said.

“I don’t think I have any more level of comfort to talk another 50 years," he said.
I think Ontarians, First Nation members and indeed all Canadians . . . feel in their hearts that something has to be done.

David Zimmer Ontario aboriginal affairs minister



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