WINNIPEG – Green Party Leader James Beddome, joined by Liberal Leader Jon Gerrard, Manitoba Wildlands Director Gaile Whelan Enns, and Wilderness Committee Campaign Director Eric Reder spoke out against the NDP allowance of peat mining in provincial parks today at the Manitoba Legislature. The Hecla/Grindstone Provincial Park, adjacent to Lake Winnipeg, may be home to a 531-hectare peat mine.
The Green Party of Manitoba would like to announce that it supports the ‘Occupy Movement’.
The Occupy initiative was created by people with diverse and ranging interests.
“The diverse interests and varied perspectives of people who directly and indirectly support the Occupy Movement are all interconnected. They are creating the building blocks to construct a vibrant, safe and prosperous communities. The Green Party of Manitoba is in support of cooperative communities, and therefore we stand behind the Occupy movement,” said Green Party Leader James Beddome.
The Green Party made history in the 2011 Provincial Election. We ran 32 candidates, more than double the number from the 2007 election. As a result of these numbers as well as the letters and petitions of our members, I became the first Green Party Provincial Leader to take part in the televised Leaders' Debate.
The Manitoba election campaign has been very excited for Green Party supporters. The participation of James Beddome, your provincial Green Party leader, in the televised leaders debate has increased the momentum for all green candidates in Manitoba.
The Green Party has made history in this election - doubling their numbers of candidates, and for the first time, participating in a Manitoba Leaders’ Debate. They are making huge strides in Wolseley, the constituency of James Beddome, Green Party Provincial Leader.
"By securing its first spot in a televised leaders debate, the provincial Green party claimed a moral victory in its quest to become part of Manitoba's political mainstream.
At the actual debate, Green Leader James Beddome scored additional points by nailing Tory Leader Hugh McFadyen with a Conawapa Hydro project dig."
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The financial projections for hydro's new dams are not looking good. "The Public Utilities Board concluded that Wuskwatim's revenues initially will not cover its costs." If these dams are not cost-effective, then why are we building them? "Hydro already envisions hiking domestic rates by 45 per cent in 10 years, and by 70 per cent in the next 20 years, to pay for Keeyask and Conawapa."
James Beddome, the leader of the Green Party of Manitoba, and Green candidate in Wolseley was the surprise star at the Provincial Leaders Debate on Friday evening.
Elizabeth May and James Beddome with a number of Green Party of Manitoba Candidates.
“Greens fully support having a publicly owned crown utility, but it must be for the benefit of Manitobans. As a crown utility, the highest degree of transparency should apply. Manitoba Hydro needs to make all the details of its export contracts publicly available, so the people of Manitoba can determine for themselves if further exports to the U.S.
The City of Winnipeg should hold off on plans to spend as much as $10 million on new electronic equipment for collecting bus fares from Winnipeg transit riders, says James Beddome, Leader of the Green Party of Manitoba.
"Any commitments that Winnipeg's Council has made in this matter should be delayed till after the public has had an opportunity to vote for zero fare bus service in Manitoba, by voting Green with their October 4 election ballots,” said Beddome.
Ontario’s nuclear waste- coming your way?
Do Manitobans really want 18,000 truck loads of Ontario’s high level nuclear waste passing through their communities enroute to a depository in northern Saskatchewan? Not likely. The time to act is now to prevent this happening.
