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Northern Gateway pipeline Joint Review Panel hearings in Victoria: day four

Speakers express their disappointment with security measures, the exclusion of the public from the hearing venue.

Enbridge oilsands pipeline's economic damage could exceed $100 billion

Enbridge’s proposed BC pipeline would unleash billion of tonnes of CO2 into our destabilizing climate. Resulting economic damages from the climate pollution could be hundreds of billions of dollars.

Oil lobbyist in Harper government like "fox in charge of henhouse," environmentalist says

"It's like putting the fox in charge of the henhouse," said Dogwood Initiative director Will Horter about Harper's former senior policy advisor Bruce Carson, who is currently under an RCMP...