In blacks and beiges, the TD Greenwash Action Team met up early to go over our plan for the Toronto Dominion annual shareholder meeting. There were about a dozen of us, from various organizations and affiliations, ready to pose as TD Bank’s welcoming committee at the entrance to the Westin Resort and Marina in Vancouver, [...]
Continue reading...By Jodie, March 30 2006
In these days where much attention is focused on oil (oil wars, auto emissions, oil addiction, etc etc) one of the potential problems that could arise is a new dependency on coal and coal-fired power plants. When burned, coal is the dirtiest fossil fuel. It releases toxic mercury, acid-rain producing sulfur dioxide, and much more [...]
Continue reading...When I listened to Bush’s recent State Of The Union speech decrying America’s addiction to foreign oil, it made me hesitate for a moment—“Hey, he’s finally onto something!” But then I realized 2 key words—“FOREIGN OIL”. While Bush wants us off oil from “unstable parts of the world”, here in our own backyard big oil [...]
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By Jodie, March 31 2006
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