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Written by Ingmar Lee Wednesday, 01 November 2006 07:58
In a May 20, 1974 interview, CBC reporter Barbara Frum asked India’s UN Ambassador Samar Sen if India did not violate some agreements with Canada in developing and detonating an atomic bomb. Ambassador Sen’s response was that India did not develop an atom bomb.
“What did it develop, then?” Frum asked.
Sen’s response: “India just exploded an atomic device, nothing to do with a bomb. It is just one of the processes which is necessary for using atomic energy. How did you get the idea for an atom bomb?”
Written by Ingmar Lee Wednesday, 01 November 2006 07:54
Dear Ancient Forest Lovers,
Here’s a chronicle account from the front-line at Cathedral Grove, British Columbia, where direct-action non-violent civil-disobedient activists have been holding off the Neocon Gordon Campbell government from constructing a giant pay-parking lot in one of the final remaining tracts of ancient primeval fir forest on Vancouver Island.
Written by Ingmar Lee Wednesday, 01 November 2006 07:43
(published in the Victoria Times Colonist, Sept 27th 2003)
One evening last week a friend and I paddled out around Dibuxante Point to camp on the west coast of Valdes Island. Many readers will have seen the magnificent wave-washed sandston formations at the Malaspina Galleries on Gabriola and at Tribune Bay on Hornby. But neither of these can compare with the fabulous formations of the cliffs of Valdes.
Written by Ingmar Lee Wednesday, 01 November 2006 07:37
Weyerhaeuser’s Terrain/Hydrology Specialist, Shelley Higman has been writing to Island newspapers to assuage widespread concerns about the company’s ongoing aerial chemical fertilization programme inside Nanaimo’s community drinking-watershed. Nanaimo citizens had expressed concerns that the worlds largest logging company, which owns the 230 square kilometre watershed as ‘private land,’ is spreading tons of US-produced chemical fertilizers onto its vast clearcuts where Nanaimo gets its drinking water.
Written by Ingmar Lee Wednesday, 01 November 2006 07:34
I’ve driven hack (taxi) here in Victoria, putting myself through school
on the 4pm-4am night-shift since the Blizzard of ’96. I’ve hauled
countless thousands of you safely all around our town. I’ve been a
professional driver for more than 25 years, I am an ICBC “Roadstar,”
and have never had an accident or an insurance claim. Everyone depends
on us hacks from time to time and Victorian’s usually pay and tip for
our services.
Written by Ingmar Lee Wednesday, 01 November 2006 07:23
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Recently the USA Navy Amphibious Assault and Command Ship “Belleau Wood,” which carries a complete Marine battalion landed at Ogden Point and disgorged as many as 1900 sailors. Readers will be interested to know just how Victoria benefitted from this one week American military rampage which was visited upon our city.
Written by Ingmar Lee Wednesday, 01 November 2006 07:20
by Ingmar Lee
First published in The Martlet
The other night I went to see the film The Corporation.
The gasps of disgust from the mainstream crowd in the theatre was music to my ears, better than the actual movie.
People are getting it.
For battered British Columbia environmentalists after three years of Gordon Campbell, what The Corporation uncovers is old news. Nevertheless, I was pleased to see a flash of the Vancouver Island marmot amidst the pathological corporate filth, devastation, exploitation and corruption that the film exposes. I’ll take it as recognition for lonely years as a critic of the great “greenwashing” scandal swirling around the extinction of our poor marmot.
More Articles...
- The Perils of Planting
- Tragedy and Travesty at the Sacred Sooke Potholes
- Big Logging Threatens the Land of the Quatsino - A Kayak Journey to Vancouver Island’s Wildest Fores
- Going, Going, Almost Gone: Compromise with a Chainsaw in the Forests of British Columbia
- How Have the Mighty Fallen? The Felling of the Goliath
- Neocons “R” Bushed ~The Final Days of the PNAC Cabal
- Stop the Troops! No Glory or Honour in Iraq
- Solander Sojourn
- Logging Lackies vs. Canada’s Most Endangered Species - Forest-Flipping Frenzy Dooms Marmot
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