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Why Site C Construction Should Stop Today
Why Site C Construction Should Stop Today The BC government has failed in its oversight role, say a former BC Hydro CEO and a veteran dam engineer. Construction on the Site C powerhouse continues despite known geotechnical risks. Photo: BC Hydro. Site C is the most expensive publicly funded infrastructure project in British Columbia’s history and […]
Spiked. BC Profs Protest after Publisher Drops Book on Canadian Mining
Spiked. BC Profs Protest after Publisher Drops Book on Canadian Mining UNBC researchers’ book alleging wrongdoing in Guatemala was accepted, reviewed, then cancelled. Catherine Nolin and Grahame Russell say their book on the activities of Canadian mining companies in Guatemala was based on years of research in the country. Photo supplied. Two British Columbia university professors […]
Horgan Seems Fine with Muzzling the True Site C Watchdog
Horgan Seems Fine with Muzzling the True Site C Watchdog The independent BC Utilities Commission demanded answers on risks and was brushed off. The independent BC Utilities Commission posed tough but ignored questions to BC Hydro about constructing Site C on unstable ground. Photo: BC Hydro. BC Hydro has, in a Trumpian gesture, brushed off the […]
In the War on Climate Change, the BC Election Was a Bust
In the War on Climate Change, the BC Election Was a Bust But the Sustainabiliteens and other youth committed to radical change will never give up. Youth on strike for the climate in Vancouver, March 2019. Photo by Jackie Dives. For high school students and climate activists like us, British Columbia’s recent election wasn’t just about […]
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 […]
B.C. gives Pacific BioEnergy green light to log rare inland rainforest for wood pellets
Conservation North director and ecologist Michelle Connolly sits in front of B.C.’s rare inland rainforest, which it set to be logged for pellets this winter. Photo: Sean O’Rourke NEWS B.C. gives Pacific BioEnergy green light to log rare inland rainforest for wood pellets Prince George plant will grind ancient cedar and hemlock into pellets to […]
Indigenous Land Rights Action Blocks Northern BC Highway
Indigenous Land Rights Action Blocks Northern BC Highway Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en members join day of action to support Ontario nation locked in conflict over development on its traditional territory. About 50 people marched on Highway 16 in New Hazelton as part of a national day of action on Indigenous land rights. Photo by Amanda Follett Hosgood. […]
A Danish Journalist Arrived to Cover the TMX Pipeline. The Guard at YVR Decided to Deport Him
A Danish Journalist Arrived to Cover the TMX Pipeline. The Guard at YVR Decided to Deport Him Kristian Lindhardt says Canada’s laws stifle press freedom afforded ‘during every crisis.’ Danish documentary-maker Kristian Lindhardt works with his country’s version of the CBC and has visited BC many times working on his documentary about the the Tsleil […]
Coastal GasLink Gets Green Light to Start Pipeline Work Near Unist’ot’en Healing Centre
Coastal GasLink Gets Green Light to Start Pipeline Work Near Unist’ot’en Healing Centre BC approves impact studies and calls for consultation with Wet’suwet’en as work proceeds in contested area. The province’s Environmental Assessment Office has granted Coastal GasLink permission to begin pipeline construction near the Unist’ot’en Healing Centre, the scene of a standoff and arrests in February. […]
Wet’suwet’en Fear Contaminated Soil Cleanup Is Creating New Risks
Wet’suwet’en Fear Contaminated Soil Cleanup Is Creating New Risks Waste from diesel spills by Coastal GasLink and RCMP is being dumped in local landfill. Efforts to clean up diesel spills by the RCMP and Coastal GasLink in Wet’suwet’en territory risk spreading the contamination, the First Nation has warned. Mike Ridsdale, environmental assessment co-ordinator for the […]
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 […]
Trans Mountain Pipeline Spills up to 50,000 Gallons of Oil on Indigenous Land in BC
Trans Mountain Pipeline Spills up to 50,000 Gallons of Oil on Indigenous Land in BC Canada’s Trans Mountain pipeline spilled as many as 190,000 liters (approximately 50,193 gallons) of crude oil in Abbotsford, British Columbia (BC) Saturday, reinforcing concerns about the safety of the pipeline’s planned expansion. Chief Dalton Silver of the Sumas First Nation told CTV News that the spill occurred on […]
The Argument over Where to Put ‘Agri-Tech’ Zones
The Argument over Where to Put ‘Agri-Tech’ Zones In the name of food security, BC proposes whittling away Agricultural Land Reserve farmland. Opposition is sprouting. The province is working to carve out new industrial zones for agricultural technology, saying the goal is better food security. But farmers, land-use experts and former NDP ministers are all […]
Sprawling Our Way to Climate Catastrophe
Sprawling Our Way to Climate Catastrophe The best way developers can help cut emissions is by redesigning suburbia. Make them to do it. There’s a hole in B.C.’s climate plan big enough to drive a subdivision through. While civil servants in Victoria diligently seek emissions reductions throughout the province to hit our climate targets, the people […]
Trudeau and His North Van Climate Minister Are ‘Wrestling’ with a Massive Oilsands Decision
Trudeau and His North Van Climate Minister Are ‘Wrestling’ with a Massive Oilsands Decision Teck’s Frontier mine would kill emissions targets, say analysts. The Trudeau government is under intense scrutiny for a looming decision — one that will powerfully signal whether it favours oil patch growth over fighting the climate emergency. Will the Liberals approve […]
