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The Pandemic Speaks
The Pandemic Speaks Are you finally ready to listen to me now? If so, here are my 10 timeless truths. The angel of death striking a door during the plague of ancient Rome. Engraving by J.G. Levasseur after J. Delaunay. Image via Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons. Audi, vide, tace. I have been trying to engage you […]
The Brutal Legal Odyssey of Jessica Ernst Comes to an End
The Brutal Legal Odyssey of Jessica Ernst Comes to an End The Alberta landowner fought an epic battle against fracking interests. Jessica Ernst became a high-profile critic of hydraulic fracturing, injecting liquid at high pressure to force loose oil and gas out. ‘The system dismissed my case, but I don’t think I lost in the […]
David Schindler, the Scientific Giant Who Defended Fresh Water
David Schindler, the Scientific Giant Who Defended Fresh Water Among the world’s greatest ecologists, his boreal research has touched all of our lives. David Schindler was among ‘the most important and effective ecologists and environmental scientists in history, not just in Canada. I’d like to think Canadians will understand and recognize that,’ says his colleague Bill […]
When Is Mountaintop Removal Not Mountaintop Removal? In Alberta, of Course!
When Is Mountaintop Removal Not Mountaintop Removal? In Alberta, of Course! The Kenney government plays word games as it plans to strip-mine the Rockies. Does this look like mountaintop removal to you? Coal mining underway in Elk Valley, BC, on the west side of the Rockies across from where Alberta plans similar mining. Photo by Callum […]
Critics Skeptical as Alberta Reverses Course on Open-pit Coal Mines
Critics Skeptical as Alberta Reverses Course on Open-pit Coal Mines Five days after Kenney defended the province’s mining push, the government says it was all a big mistake. Rancher Renie Blades says she’s glad that the Alberta government admitted its mistake in cancelling the Coal Policy, but calls her response ‘very guarded.’ Photo by Callum Gunn. […]
Months Before Albertans Were Told, Australian Miners Knew Plans to Axe Coal Policy
Months Before Albertans Were Told, Australian Miners Knew Plans to Axe Coal Policy Investor presentations signalled the Kenney government aimed to open protected lands to open-pit mining. Documents show Australian firms seeking open-pit coal mining leases in Alberta got signals protections to sensitive lands would be lifted, clearing the way. The public only found out […]
Alberta Government Fines Hunter for Trespassing on Australian Coal Lease
Alberta Government Fines Hunter for Trespassing on Australian Coal Lease Levi Williams-Whitney traversed the land to make a video opposing open-pit mining. He has no regrets. Still from a video made by Levi Williams-Whitney, titled A Hunter’s Perspective: Open Pit Coal Mining in Alberta. The Kenney government has fined an Alberta hunter $600 for making an anti-coal […]
Threatened by Coal, Ranchers Take the Kenney Government to Court
Threatened by Coal, Ranchers Take the Kenney Government to Court Alberta is poised to let miners destroy mountaintops and vital watersheds grazed for a century. Mac Blades (foreground) carries on his family’s 100-year ranching tradition on the slopes of Alberta’s Rockies. He and his wife Renie joined a lawsuit to stop open-pit coal mining in […]
Pipe Dream: Taxpayer-Owned TMX Is a Bust, Concludes Analyst
Pipe Dream: Taxpayer-Owned TMX Is a Bust, Concludes Analyst Expect no Asian windfall for oilsands crude, says a new report by expert David Hughes. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces cabinet’s approval to greenlight the TMX project on June 18, 2019. Photo by Sean Kilpatrick, the Canadian Press. Remember that 67-year-old pipeline and its controversial bitumen expansion […]
LNG in BC Is a ‘Losing’ Bet, Report Finds
LNG in BC Is a ‘Losing’ Bet, Report Finds New analysis calls out rosy job projections for industry ‘misleading’ and unrealistic. BC’s LNG Canada project under construction earlier this year. Photo by Robin Rowland, the Canadian Press. A respected U.S. energy group has criticized a rosy Conference Board of Canada report championing more liquefied natural gas development […]
BC Hydro Bets on Interest Rates — and Loses $1 Billion
BC Hydro Bets on Interest Rates — and Loses $1 Billion A hedging program was supposed to protect the corporation from rising rates. Instead, it’s creating major liabilities. The Peace River was dammed and sent through these diversion tunnels this week to allow work on Site C to continue in the dry riverbed. Photo via BC […]
Thousands of Quakes, Tied to Fracking, Keep Shaking the Site C Dam Region
Thousands of Quakes, Tied to Fracking, Keep Shaking the Site C Dam Region Several recent reports on the tremors add to concerns about the mega-project’s stability. An artist’s rendering of the Site C Dam upon completion, a vision of the future rattled by thousands of tremors in the region triggered by fracking. Image via BC Hydro. […]
Alberta’s Environment Minister Cheered on Coal Mining in New Areas before Restrictions Were Dropped
Alberta’s Environment Minister Cheered on Coal Mining in New Areas before Restrictions Were Dropped Months before ending the Coal Policy, the Kenney government issued letters of support for open-pit projects. Coal mining along Alberta’s Rockies. Months before a large zone along the eastern slopes was opened to coal strip mining, two Alberta ministers endorsed an […]
What Kenney Had to Kill to Embrace Coal
What Kenney Had to Kill to Embrace Coal Alberta’s 1976 Coal Policy protected vital drinking water supplies for much of the province. That’s gone now. Under the cover of a pandemic, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney quietly wiped away a near half-century of safeguards against open pit coal mining in most of the province’s Rocky Mountains […]
