U-N-Believable. Harper Closes BC Oil Spill Centre

The Harper government is closing British Columbia's command centre for emergency oil spills just as that fundamentalist degenerate guts fisheries protections and 'streamlines' environmental approvals for the Northern Gateway bitumen pipeline and Kitimat tanker port.

The oil spill operations will be centralized in Quebec.

The move comes as Kinder Morgan also looks to increase bitumen supertanker traffic through Vancouver harbour from the current 70-per year to 360.

BC's Liberal in name only provincial government, meanwhile, doesn't have a clue how to respond to Ottawa's eco-backstabbing.

Meanwhile Harper EnviroShill Peter Kent's office issued a statement claiming "This will not impact Canadians or the environment."   It seems the employees affected were actually working on meaningless stuff such as "providing information about environmentally sensitive land and species at risk."

BC Oil Tanker Ban - a Good Start

The House of Commons has passed by 143-138 an NDP motion to ban oil tanker traffic off British Columbia's north coast.  It's a symbolic thing, important even though it's not binding on the Harper government.

For British Columbians, who overwhelmingly oppose the Enbridge tanker port proposal for Kitimat, the vote will be important to smoke out the parliamentary rapscallions who support the tanker proposal.   I suspect there'll be a number of Tory MPs out here who just ran afoul of their constituents on an issue we don't take lightly.

Now if the NDP can just publish a list of the nay votes.