We at Save Our Rivers Society are girding up our loins for the continued battle to save our rivers from the capitalist predation being undertaken with all the help Campbell & Co can give.

I’ve been asked given the Liberals won the last election giving them four more years to do as they wish, we don’t just fold our tent and walk away? The answer is that we can’t – and neither can you!  We will fight every inch of the way to fight every private power exercise that comes along.

This will not be easy. I don’t believe that Campbell will stay his term. With the Winter Olympics behind him I believe he’ll resign. If I’m right, since Campbell won't need the Liberal Party any more it won’t bother him if they hit the ditch in 2013.

Is that being fair? Campbell hasn’t given any inkling that he wants to leave politics has he?

I think he has in several ways.

He clearly doesn’t care that with his policies, BC Hydro will be ruined before 2013 because he won’t be where it matters. He clearly doesn’t care about our environment because he won’t be around when his party is called to account.

He doesn’t give a damn about BC getting screwed by an energy policy that brings no new power to speak of to BC but makes us into a perpetual goblet of energy to be drunk by Americans for two reasons – he never has had concerns about BC and – here’s pure speculation – he expects to become rich out of energy as former Alberta premier Ralph Klein has become.

In a way, this makes the task of fighting the rivers issue more difficult. After all, if Campbell doesn’t give a damn about it why would anyone else in the Liberal Party care?

The answer is that the candidates for his position will know that they face a serious problem in 2013 and will want to forge their own paths. Rita Johnson and Kim Campbell know what it’s like to take over a party that’s hated by the voters.

But this isn’t really relevant to our fight because we must stop these projects without concern for political events. We must oppose with every fiber in our body. We have to prepare, with many participants, to blockade projects and defy the law taking the consequences that follow. This will require solidarity of all of us who are in the fight.

I have found in the issues in which I’ve been involved you never know you’ve won until you’ve won. Up until that moment you nearly always feel you’re losing.

We have a moral obligation to all who come after us to fight Campbell and his toadies every inch of the way. As the great Scottish minstrel, Sir Harry Lauder used to sing - "Keep right on to the end of the road, Keep right on to the end ...”

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