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By Many Calculations, LNG Is a Fail for BC: Report
By Many Calculations, LNG Is a Fail for BC: Report The math for liquefied natural gas is bad on emissions, revenues, jobs, even offsetting coal in China, finds a new study. David Hughes, one of the nation’s foremost energy analysts, has a simple message for the governments of British Columbia and Canada when it comes to […]
‘Normal Is the Problem’
‘Normal Is the Problem’ So is normal’s idiot child, ‘the new normal.’ What we’ve made normal never was natural. Sharon Wilson is a fifth-generation Texan who drives around rural communities and takes pictures of oil and gas facilities with an infrared camera. The pictures make visible all the methane pollution that industry and governments pretend […]
Don’t Bet on a Vaccine
Don’t Bet on a Vaccine If we get one, great. But here’s why we can’t count on it and what that means. Every day politicians promise eventual relief from the threat of COVID-19 with a vaccine. An unprecedented scientific race to develop more than 100 of them is now underway. But don’t roll up your […]
Global Boom, Pandemic, Crash: Is History Just Repeating Itself?
Global Boom, Pandemic, Crash: Is History Just Repeating Itself? If Peter Turchin is right, we face the end of a 300-year cycle, as did previous far-flung empires. The coronavirus pandemic is, among other things, a tribute to human ingenuity and our relentless pursuit of globalization, an impulse thousands of years old. Previous civilizations, from the […]
Alberta’s Meat Plant Workers Share Their Fears and Anger
Alberta’s Meat Plant Workers Share Their Fears and Anger As Cargill prepares to reopen, voices from the frontlines of Canada’s largest COVID-19 outbreak. They fear the virus. They are concerned about the futures. They worry for their communities. And they say neither the government nor two foreign-owned companies, which account for 70 per cent of […]
Ignoring US Alarms, Alberta Meat Packers Spawned Canada’s Biggest Outbreak
Ignoring US Alarms, Alberta Meat Packers Spawned Canada’s Biggest Outbreak As the virus gripped US plants, the union pleaded for a shutdown. They were rebuffed. Canada’s largest outbreak of COVID-19 swept through two meat-packing plants in southern Alberta two weeks after the provincial government ignored union requests to temporarily close both of the plants. And […]
For Oil and Its Dependents, It’s Code Blue
For Oil and Its Dependents, It’s Code Blue The great price collapse of 2020 will topple companies and transform states. If oil has been laid low by the coronavirus, then the nations whose economies most depend on it might soon be on ventilators. By any prognosis the great oil price collapse of 2020 has pushed […]
COVID-19, Brought to You by Globalization
COVID-19, Brought to You by Globalization How the virus exploits traits of our economy extolled as modern triumphs. This pandemic, with an estimated mortality rate of one to two per cent, is not a world ender or something to be truly feared. But it deserves our respect and it certainly has our attention. Pandemics, which […]
Diana Beresford-Kroeger on the Flawed Thinking that Got Us to Climate Crisis
Diana Beresford-Kroeger on the Flawed Thinking that Got Us to Climate Crisis Our conversation with the renowned botanist turns to fire, money and manual work. In early November, a California radio station in Marin County invited the world-renowned botanist to participate in a podcast about her new book To Speak for the Trees. The book, already in its […]
New Study Finds Far Greater Methane Threat from Fossil Fuel Industry
New Study Finds Far Greater Methane Threat from Fossil Fuel Industry The gas plays a powerful role in driving up global temperatures. A new study published in Nature may have ended a long scientific debate about the key source of rising methane levels in the atmosphere. It found that methane emissions from human activities — mainly fossil fuels […]
What the Teck Mine Will Destroy
What the Teck Mine Will Destroy Old growth, wetlands, wildlife. All the review panel added up and wrote off. Any day now, the Trudeau government is expected to render its verdict on the $20-billion Teck Resources Frontier mine proposed to push Alberta’s industrialized oilsands landscape farther north. There’s been a lot of published debate about whether the […]
Green Myths Canada’s LNG Sales Force Tells the World
Green Myths Canada’s LNG Sales Force Tells the World No, methane’s no fix for global coal-fired energy. Here’s why. Representatives of the British Columbia, Alberta and federal governments are making the global rounds these days to sell the notion that liquefied natural gas exports can help the climate crisis. Dave Nikolejsin, deputy minister of the […]
The Quake Threat to Dams Posed by Fracking Was Long Warned
The Quake Threat to Dams Posed by Fracking Was Long Warned A new trove of internal exchanges shaken loose by Ben Parfitt amplifies decades of safety urgings. “Why is this so difficult?” a BC Hydro dam safety engineer plaintively asked his superiors seven years ago. He’d been stymied again in proposing that because the risks […]
Crazy Days in Alberta: The Poison Wells File
Crazy Days in Alberta: The Poison Wells File The province let oil and gas firms create a $100-billion disaster. They expect you to foot the bill. Every day something crazy happens in Alberta to illustrate how thoroughly oil politics have eroded the province’s grip on reality. Judy Aldous, who hosts a province-wide CBC Radio noon […]
It Bears Repeating: Renewables Alone Won’t End the Climate Crisis
It Bears Repeating: Renewables Alone Won’t End the Climate Crisis ‘We have to look at downsizing, degrowth, using less.’ Although the media still portrays climate change as some vague threat to “the environment,” it is really a self-made blitzkrieg that is already destabilizing a highly energy-intensive and complex human civilization. Greta Thunberg has spoken prophetically: our […]
