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[Victoria Watcher]

Each time the general public is disrupted by these sorts of stunts, support for the protestors dwindles. I am not sure why they don't see this and adopt tactics more likely to get people on their side.

 

because half the fun for them is making the news.

[rmpeers]

Each time the general public is disrupted by these sorts of stunts, support for the protestors dwindles. I am not sure why they don't see this and adopt tactics more likely to get people on their side.

The lack of awareness of how blocking will be received is astonishing. They are without question failing to win support. Very unfortunate that our local officials one again show their absolute contempt for the poor saps they are supposed to represent.

[Victoria Watcher]

Hundreds of demonstrators in support of Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs have blocked the Johnson Street Bridge for the second time in three days, and are heading to the Bay Street Bridge as well.

 

Organizers say they have no plans to leave. On Saturday, hundreds sat down on the bridge for four hours, blocking traffic in both directions.

 

https://www.timescol...oria-1.24073186

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 10 February 2020 - 05:42 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Joe Perkins

 

@JoePerkinsCHEK

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"I'm just a citizen...this is unfair, I need to get across this bridge". More on this double-bridge protest playing out in Victoria on

@CHEK_News

at 6 #YYJ

 

twitterhttps://twitter.com/...047632649932800

 

 

[RFS]

Why do people engage them? Don’t say anything, just keep walking, let them put hands on you. Maybe film surreptitiously

[Victoria Watcher]

Why do people engage them? Don’t say anything, just keep walking, let them put hands on you. Maybe film surreptitiously

 

i think he had a car.  if he was walking he would have been let through.  he got out to ask them to let his car through.  they said no as it was unsafe for those on the bridge to let single cars through on a case-by-case.

[Mike K.]

Former Sidney mayor Steve Price: “This is a direct result of @AdamPOlsen and @ElizabethMay encouraging and supporting these illegal protests. These are paid professional agitators, they have set back reconciliation 100 years in this province, remember this at election time #YYJ #YVR #Sidney”

[Victoria Watcher]

These are paid professional agitators, they have set back reconciliation 100 years in this province, remember this at election time #YYJ #YVR #Sidney”

 

that's a bit over the top.  back to 1920?

[RFS]

Highway 19 near Buckley bay:

https://globalnews.c...utARiizmZwtuQvQ

‘the group was met by another group of residents, several wearing masks, who repeatedly pulled the barricades down as police attempted to keep the groups apart.

At one point, someone drove a pickup truck through plywood barriers blocking the road.

Police eventually arrested one of the masked residents for obstruction after he attempted to pull down a barricade that anti-pipeline protesters had erected.’

Looks like outside of Victoria people are less patient. Good for the local residents for doing something. Unbelievable that the police arrested one of them and not the blockaders

Edited by RFS, 10 February 2020 - 10:42 PM.

[Victoria Watcher]

video of crew up-island unblocking the road.

 

https://globalnews.c...02/?jwsource=cl

[RFS]

The story of the arrest is going national. The optics of police arresting a local resident trying to clear the road is absurdly bad

[Victoria Watcher]

ya the only guy arrested is the guy taking down the barrier.

[rmpeers]

The mayor and Ben and his servants enjoy nothing more that causing discomfort to regular, hard working people. I believe this is a key part of their delusions of grandeur/fantasy in which they are working to punish and exact revenge upon settlers, even though the actual settlers have long since departed. Again, why must they take out their own resentments and issues on the people they are supposed to represent. Especially laughable that Isitt self-identifies as a "historian", LOL.

[Victoria Watcher]

The BC Government bent over today and let simpletons and incompetents shut it down. Absolutely stunning how little these people understand what they are picketing. If you enjoy me exposing these loons, please help me cover my security costs at http://FakeFirstNation.com

 

 

video:  https://twitter.com/...480146090254336

[Victoria Watcher]

longer "what's in the pipeline" quiz:

 

https://youtu.be/Rh59EXGmRXc

[Victoria Watcher]

trudeau's trtip:

 

 

 

Dalhousie University political science chair David Black, who studies Canada's role in sub-Saharan Africa, says Senegal and Canada have long-standing links, mostly through their shared French language, that Trudeau can build upon.

 

Black notes Senegal is not without some significant human rights challenges -- homosexuality is illegal and punishable by up to five years in prison for example -- but it's considered one of the most stable democracies on the continent.

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Two-way trade between the two countries is quite small, at just $60.7 million in 2018, with Canadian exports to Senegal accounting for all but $3 million of that. But the country is expanding oil and gas production, offering some opportunities for Canadian energy firms in particular.

 

 

 

 

we have a very good oil and gas industry that trudeau is repressing here and he's looking for oil and gas opportunities in senegal?

 

https://www.ctvnews....gning-1.4806799

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 16 February 2020 - 04:26 AM.

[LeoVictoria]

comparing carbon intensity of producing oil

 

source:  https://innovationor...han-we-thought/

[Mike K.]

That’s odd. Nigeria has an easy to access and extremely easy to refine oil supply, and it requires one of the biggest carbon emitting processes to supply that oil to market?

[rjag]

comparing carbon intensity of producing oil

 

 

source:  https://innovationor...han-we-thought/

 

The end result was that getting a barrel of oil to the refinery emits more CO2 than previously thought:

 

 

 

If only there was a way to move that barrel of oil that didnt involve a train or tanker truck....

Edited by rjag, 17 February 2020 - 10:27 AM.

[RFS]

Any one with any experience in oil and gas in Alberta knows there is more to the story than the above graph. The Canadian oil business is probably the most ethical in the world and spends a ton of money on things to do with wilderness conservation and environmental work. The oil companies do a lot for nature and environment in Alberta