Comment: We guess that if 30-40 protesters gathered outside the offices of any Canadian environmental organizations or took a pro-free enterprise march around Toronto Island Park, nary a CBC reporter or editor would care…. -dh
CBC. … The group set out on May 28 from Amqui, Que., on the Peoples’ (Sounds like Mao, doesn’t it? -dh) March for Mother Earth, a 785-kilometre trek that hopes to send a message of protest against oil and gas exploration in the region.
The projects the group opposes include:
- The Chaleur Terminal project, a plan to build a three-kilometre pipeline and oil shipping terminal in nearby Belledune, N.B.
- The Bourque, Galt and Haldiman oil and gas exploration sites that pepper the peninsula.
- Trains carrying tankers of crude oil cars through the countryside heading toward the Maritimes.
- Tugliq and Pétrolia’s plans to create a 59-kilometre liquid natural gas pipeline.
- Drilling sites on nearby Anticosti Island.
The disparate group of 30 to 40 walkers….
Dave Harbour, publisher of Northern Gas Pipelines, is a former Chairman of the Regulatory Commission of Alaska, a Commissioner Emeritus of NARUC, NARUC's Official Representative to IOGCC and Vice Chairman of NARUC's Gas Committee. He served as Gas Committee Chairman of the Western Conference of Public Service Commissioners. He also served as commissioner of the Anchorage Bicentennial Commission and the Anchorage Heritage Land Bank Commission.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree: English, at Colorado State University, a Master of Science Degree: Communications-Journalism at Murray State University and graduated from Utility Regulatory School for Commissioners at Michigan State University. He served as a Vice President for Communications and Public Affairs at Alaska Pacific University, taught bank marketing classes at the University of Alaska and was an English teacher at Los Alamos High School.
Harbour served in ranks of Private - Captain during a 4-year assignment with the Army in Korea, Idaho, Georgia and Fort Meade and received the Meritorious Service Medal among other commendations.
Harbour is also a past Chairman of the Alaska Council on Economic Education, the Alaska Oil & Gas Association Government Affairs Committee, the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce, the Export Council of Alaska and the Department of Commerce's District Export Council. He is a past President of the Alaska Press Club, American Bald Eagle Foundation, Consumer Energy Alliance-Alaska and Common Sense for Alaska.
Harbour was instrumental in founding the American Bald Eagle Research Institute (UAS), the Alaska Support Industry Alliance, the Downtown Anchorage Business Partnership, and Arctic Power.
He also served as CEO of several small Alaska organizations, including the Anchorage Parking Authority and Action Security, Inc. Harbour is also Chairman Emeritus of the Alaska Oil & Gas Congress.
Harbour's wife, Nancy, is a professional, performing arts administrator and his three boys, Todd, Benjamin and William work in the fields of environmental management, energy marketing and medicine.
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