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Rainforest Defender Rebecca Tarbotton Leaves Inspiring Legacy
Posted by EcoWatch: David Suzuki on January 9th, 2013
EcoWatch: Last year ended on a sad note, with the accidental drowning death of Rebecca Tarbotton in Mexico, at 39 years of age. Becky was the inspirational executive director of San Francisco-based Rainforest Action Network, but her roots were in British Columbia.
In an October speech, she eloquently recalled her early days in the environmental movement, including an internship at the David Suzuki Foundation, and explained how a few people with purpose, committed to a goal, can accomplish a lot.
Becky...
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Canadian Government Continues to Choose Dirty Energy Over Democracy
Posted by EcoWatch: David Suzuki on October 24th, 2012
EcoWatch: On Oct. 22, more than 3,000 people braved the rain and cold on the front lawn of the legislature of British Columbia to protest the Northern Gateway pipeline project.
Why, when so many people oppose the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project, would government and industry resort to such extreme measures to push it through?
The problems with the plan to run pipelines from the Alberta tar sands across northern B.C. to load unrefined, diluted bitumen onto supertankers for export to China and...