A press release from the Greens with a quote from MEP Caroline Lucas, concerning a Green Party policy idea to replace road tax with increased taxes on petrol.
Charging the most polluting vehicles with a flat tax will do nothing but enrage motorists and discredit the aim of green taxes, which is to change behaviour by actively rewarding more environmentally friendly behaviour
Green Party Principal
I got a tip about this story, because I missed it before (obviously). It seems Tammy of News Talk Radio in Saskatchewan needed something controversial to write for her blog, so she picked on Amber Jones of the Saskatchewan Green Party (not a hard target given how many people are pro-nukes in this province). Many [...]
Thanks to the hot tip by Saskboy in the comments section of my last posting, I double-checked my link to the Green Party article. To my surprise, it was no longer working. After spending a few minutes scouring the Green Party's website I did manage to find the July edition of their newsletter which had moved to a different page.Well that is all fine and well, but then I looked a little closer. Interestingly the offending article about wind farms seems to have suddenly disappeared. Consider the following evidence:Exhibit #1 - The July 2007 Green Party E-Newsletter as per their websiteExhibit #2 - The original E-Newsletter as e-mailed to me on Friday (pasted below):-------------A new voice hits the airwaves The downside of wind farms EDAs challenged to grow their membership lists Quebec organizer now a candidate Young Greens organize for Fall campus campaign Green Party Radio is on the AirOn May 21, an Internet radio station went on the air to promote the Green Party and several other g
Here are the official election results, as announced at the British Columbia Green Party AGM on Sunday 26 November 2006 in Vancouver:Deputy Leader (vote by provincial council only)Angela ReidNew Directors at LargeRoy Ball - VancouverAngela Reid - KelownaRex Weyler - Cortes IslandSilvaine Zimmerman - Bowen IslandNew ChairsChair - Desmond Rodenbour - VancouverAdministration Chair - Tom Cornwall - North VancouverExternal Liaison - Peter Ronald - VancouverMembership - Kerrie Dickson - NelsonOmbudsperson (male) - Stuart MacKinnon - VancouverOrganizing Chair - Leanna Mitchell - North VancouverPolicy & Research - Thomas Bradfield - SaanichPublications - Dee Brennan - VancouverSecretary - Sven Biggs - GibsonsTreasurer -Roman Goldmann-VancouverVice Chair - Rex Weyler - Cortes Island During the main business of the meeting, party members refined policies and clarified positions on maintaining public healthcare, protection of workers rights and continuing to oppose the building of new pipelines
Green party 'has arrived' after 2nd place finish in byelectionCBC News OnlineGreen Party Leader Elizabeth May sounded victorious Tuesday in announcing that her second-place finish in the federal byelection in London North Centre Monday had won the Green Party a place on Canada's political map. "We are electable. We have a full party. The Green Party really has arrived," she told CBC News early Tuesday. "We can be taken seriously as a credible political alternative."May won 26 per cent of the popular vote in the byelection, placing second behind Liberal Glen Pearson, who won the seat with nearly 35 per cent. But May beat Tory Dianne Haskett, the former London mayor, who took 24 per cent of the vote.May, a well-known environmental activist born in the U.S., said her strong showing is good news for the Greens because the party clearly increased its popular support from the last federal election.Read more here:http://tinyurl.com/uu86u
The Green Party of Canada today announced its new Shadow Cabinet, comprising of 34 posts.Think you know the Green Party? Take another look. The new cabinet includes Mark Taylor - an Albertan engineer in the oil and gas sector - as portfolio holder for Energy Policy.The full list of Shadow Cabinet positions is available here.As with most Green Party procedures, policies are created in a "bottom-up" or "grassroots" method. In plain English, that means that policies are open to debate and majority consensus, rather than dictated by a select group of party strategists.If you would like to play a role in such Green policy formation, consider joining an issue caucus! Each shadow minister will be compiling a group of volunteers to help conduct research policy ideas, communicate with Green Party members and create dialogue with the general public. If you would like to get involved, please contact the relevant shadow minister directly (contact info should be available here in the near futu
The Green Party of the United States made major gains in Tuesday's US elections, with 59 Green candidates elected to public office across all ends of the country - including the new mayor of Richmond, California.Other highlights included:Rich Whitney received 11% in his run for Illinois Governor (despite incumbant Gov. Rod Blagojevich spending $800,000 in taxpayers' money trying to keep Greens off the state ballot).Pat LaMarche, running on a strong universal health care platform, drew nearly 10% in her campaign for Governor of Maine.Joyce Robinson-Paul received 14,109 votes for 14.7% (second place) in her race for D.C.'s U.S. Senate seat.Green candidate Tom Kelly, running for the U.S. House in Colorado's District 1, received 25,096 votes for 21%.Also in California, incumbent City Council member Larry Robinson was reelected in Sebastopol, retaining the Council's Green majority, in place since 2000.The Massachusetts Green-Rainbow Party needed 3% in a statewide vote to maintain ballo
The Green Party is about “effective political change, not partisan political power,” said Elizabeth May the leader of the Green Party of Canada, to Wayne Chu from ProgressiveBloggers.ca who conducted the video interview.
It’s unlikely that a Blogging Tory will produce a similar video with the Conservative candidate, given Stephen Harper’s order for her to have a short leash. And no, that’s not a dog joke, it’s just an expression.
"So it may seem surprising at first glance that Bob and Harvey Weinstein are throwing a star-studded gala to honor Wal-Mart chief H. Lee Scott on Oct 23 for, of all things, his "commitment to environmental sustainability." "For its part, Wal-Mart has embarked on a five-year effort to reduce packaging, an effort that sits well with eco-friendly bizzers like the Weinsteins. Ultimately, that may include rethinking the packaging of DVDs and CDs." » original news (via hugg.com)
