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Fort Nelson’s Gas Boom Went Bust. Who’s Going to Clean Up?
Fort Nelson’s Gas Boom Went Bust. Who’s Going to Clean Up? Ottawa has announced money to clean up the oil and gas industry’s old wells and infrastructure, but critics say it’s not enough. In the face of the economic fallout from COVID-19, it’s easy to forget that some communities in British Columbia were in deep […]
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 […]
How Canada’s Oilsands City Is Supporting Indigenous Food Sovereignty
How Canada’s Oilsands City Is Supporting Indigenous Food Sovereignty A new Métis Cultural Centre in Fort McMurray aims to revive traditional practices in an urban setting. Genevieve Noel was in the room when Fort McMurray city councillors voted unanimously last month to provide almost eight acres for a Métis Cultural Centre. Noel, a Métis woman and designer, […]
Has Suncor Seen the Climate Crisis Coming for 61 Years?
Has Suncor Seen the Climate Crisis Coming for 61 Years? A US lawsuit wants the oilsands producer to pay for global warming havoc. Did Canada’s largest oil producer learn about climate change as early as 1959, develop a massive bitumen industry in northern Alberta knowing the atmospheric damage it would cause, and then take part […]
Is Jason Kenney Ready to Bet Albertan Pensions on Failing Fossil Fuel Firms?
Is Jason Kenney Ready to Bet Albertan Pensions on Failing Fossil Fuel Firms? The UCP government is moving to take control of citizens’ savings — and they should be very worried. Cautious. Reliable. Boring. Those are words that are appropriately associated with pension fund management. However, pensions have recently become a hot button political issue […]
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 […]
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 […]
Can Community Gardeners Start Planting? It Depends Where You Live
Can Community Gardeners Start Planting? It Depends Where You Live Interest in local growing is exploding while funds shrink. Interest in growing food has exploded during the COVID-19 crisis, but not everyone has access to a yard or even a balcony. Community gardens play a crucial role for both households and food security organizations. But […]
Farmers’ Markets Are Safe, Support Local Food
Farmers’ Markets Are Safe, Support Local Food That’s the message from the BC government as some vendors also move online. The long-running market is a staple in the Fairfield Gonzales area, and uses space owned by School District 61, the City of Victoria, and the neighbourhood’s community association, giving Goulet three landlords to wrangle. For […]
The PM’s Pandemic Power Grab
The PM’s Pandemic Power Grab Trudeau has pushed for lifted restraints, less transparency. Why we should be deeply concerned. “Never waste the opportunity offered by a good crisis.” — Niccolo Machiavelli Machiavelli’s words, borrowed by Rahm Emanuel during the 2008 financial crisis when he was Barack Obama’s chief of staff, offer a stark warning about […]
‘Each Moment Here Is a Victory’: Wet’suwet’en Supporters Aren’t Backing Down
‘Each Moment Here Is a Victory’: Wet’suwet’en Supporters Aren’t Backing Down RCMP ‘exclusion zone’ isn’t deterring anti-pipeline activists, land defenders. A report from the scene. Thirty-nine kilometres down the Morice Forest Service Road in northern British Columbia, people huddle around a fire, close enough to feel some heat but not enough to melt their boots. […]
RCMP Planned to Use Snipers in Assault on Wet’suwet’en Protest, Guardian Reports
RCMP Planned to Use Snipers in Assault on Wet’suwet’en Protest, Guardian Reports Newspaper cites planning documents that called for ‘lethal overwatch’ to ensure pipeline built. The RCMP were prepared to use snipers with shoot-to-kill orders when they launched a raid to remove Indigenous protesters slowing pipeline construction in Wet’suwet’en territory, the Guardian reported today. The exclusive […]
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 […]
