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"At the very highest levels of this government, Canadians who have a legitimate concern about this oilsands pipeline are being called enemies of the government of Canada and enemies of the people of Canada. And that's the language of anti-terrorism.

"When a government calls its own citizens enemies, you've lost your moral authority to govern."

Terrific article in the Vancouver Observer (on?) this Thursday about the oil-spill-in-the-sky that is the real damage from the proposed Enbridge pipeline from the tar sands to China or the USA. Barry Saxifrage writes:

"One way or the other, every gallon of tar sands crude oil that Enbridge wants to pump down its proposed B.C. pipeline will be spilled into our environment. All of it. Every drop.

"Any crude that Enbridge doesn't first spill into our B.C. lakes, rivers, streams, Great Bear Rainforest and wild coastline, will instead become a gigantic burnt oil spill dumped into our destabilizing atmosphere and acidifying oceans.

Murray Dobbin's opinion piece in the Tyee this morning is worth reading by all thoughtful people - he sets off with a heart-stopping lead:

"Where will you be and what will you be doing when the first giant oil tanker (there will be two every three days), carrying over 200,000 gallons of tar sands goop diluted with solvent, spills its load into the pristine waters of the northern B.C. coast?"

Durban, South Africa: December 9, 2011

Ambitious or inadequate? Twenty four hours remains to secure Durban’s credibility

by Andrea Palframan, Watershed Sentinel

Durban, South Africa: December 8 2011

by Andrea Palframan, Watershed Sentinel

At 12:15pm today, after a press conference hosted by Global Justice Ecology Project, a  panelist dressed as a clown was de-badged and removed from the UNFCCC negotiations.