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Horgan’s Pipeline Push Betrays His Reconciliation Promise
Horgan’s Pipeline Push Betrays His Reconciliation Promise First Nations expected a new era; instead the government has embraced colonialism and ignored UNDRIP law. It’s the same old story Indigenous Peoples have heard for generations. B.C. Premier John Horgan tells the public “the rule of law” demands the Coastal GasLink pipeline go ahead. Permits are in place, and […]
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 […]
BC’s Drilling and Fracking Credits a $1.2 Billion Subsidy in Recent Years, Researcher Finds
BC’s Drilling and Fracking Credits a $1.2 Billion Subsidy in Recent Years, Researcher Finds Credits reduce future royalties that frackers owe the public for access to the resource. “It’s been quite a battle to get to this stage,” said Ben Parfitt, a resource policy analyst with the B.C. office of the Canadian Centre for Policy […]
Frack Quakes: Knowledge Is Weak as BC Drilling Grows
Frack Quakes: Knowledge Is Weak as BC Drilling Grows As an LNG boom looms, so does the mystery of related tremors, finds report. Regulators know fracking has caused earthquakes in northeastern B.C. big enough to rattle homes and halt construction at the Site C dam worksite in 2018. Those same regulators certainly are mindful of the fact […]
BC Government Frets Over Climate Change While Heavily Subsidizing Fracking Companies
BC Government Frets Over Climate Change While Heavily Subsidizing Fracking Companies Worse, the giveaway probably isn’t needed, with the global industry desperate for new gas fields. We’re in a climate crisis. So why did the B.C. government give oil and gas companies $663 million in subsidies last year so they would produce more fracked natural […]
‘You can’t drink money’: Kootenay communities fight logging to protect their drinking water
‘You can’t drink money’: Kootenay communities fight logging to protect their drinking water In Glade, where clear-cutting could begin any day, determined residents are pulling out all the stops in an effort to protect their local creek — even though a judge ruled they have no right to clean waterSarah Cox Jul 20, 2019 17 min read […]
Trudeau Declared a Climate Crisis, then Backed Trans Mountain Again
Trudeau Declared a Climate Crisis, then Backed Trans Mountain Again Opponents slam approval of potentially ‘catastrophic’ pipeline expansion. A day after declaring a “climate emergency,” the federal government approved for the second time the expansion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline that it now owns. In announcing cabinet’s decision, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said fighting climate […]
A “Cancer On Our Economy”: Report Finds Over $7 Billion Laundered Through British Columbia In 2018
A “Cancer On Our Economy”: Report Finds Over $7 Billion Laundered Through British Columbia In 2018 It may have taken a while, but now that housing prices are starting to crash in Vancouver, BC legislators are finally starting to get wise to the fact that the province has been a hot bed for money laundering. It was an easy […]
Will BC’s Budding LNG Industry Spark More Quakes and Shake Northeast Housing Prices?
Will BC’s Budding LNG Industry Spark More Quakes and Shake Northeast Housing Prices? Look at Oklahoma as a possible preview of things to come. B.C. Premier John Horgan and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau could barely contain their glee last year when LNG Canada declared its $40-billion Kitimat export terminal and related pipeline were going ahead. But neither […]
Alberta Is Playing a Dangerous Game with Pipeline Ad Campaign
Alberta Is Playing a Dangerous Game with Pipeline Ad Campaign The anti-BC PR blitz fuels the anger of right-wing groups like the ‘yellow vests.’ A Tyee investigation revealed the expensive details of Alberta Premier Rachel Notley’s national public relations effort to scapegoat British Columbia, including dubious claims of pipeline benefits translated into Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Filipino and […]
Mortgage Stress Test Blamed For 25% Collapse In British Columbia Home Sales
Mortgage Stress Test Blamed For 25% Collapse In British Columbia Home Sales Home sales in British Columbia, Canada’s westernmost province, collapsed in 2018 is mostly correlated to the mortgage stress test that started in January 2018, which decreased buyers’ purchasing power. The B.C. Real Estate Association (BCREA) reported Tuesday that a total of 78,345 homes were sold on B.C.’s […]
Alberta Has Spent $23 Million Calling BC an Enemy of Canada
Alberta Has Spent $23 Million Calling BC an Enemy of Canada Tyee FOI reveals pro-pipeline PR strategy, spiraling costs. Billboard on a Kelowna roadway, paid for by Albertans as part of a national campaign with the underlying theme: ‘This is not B.C. vs. Alberta, this is B.C. vs. Canada.’ Source: KeepCanadaWorking website. The Alberta government […]
BC Energy Minister on Her Site C Reversal: No Regrets
BC Energy Minister on Her Site C Reversal: No Regrets Michelle Mungall once firmly opposed the mega-dam. Now she’s a powerful figure in a ‘complicated’ party. Critics criticize. But once you’re in government, says Energy Minister Michelle Mungall, ‘It’s not so easy to put your mark in the sand and say it’s never going to […]
Another Crucial Canadian Pipeline Runs Into Trouble
Another Crucial Canadian Pipeline Runs Into Trouble Late last year, Royal Dutch Shell gave the greenlight to a massive LNG export terminal on Canada’s Pacific Coast, one of the largest investments in LNG in years. But like other fossil fuel projects in Canada, the plans have run into some trouble. Shell’s LNG Canada project hinges […]
Is Coastal GasLink an Illegal Pipeline?
Is Coastal GasLink an Illegal Pipeline? Challenge to energy project’s approval brings threats to Smithers activist. Smithers resident Michael Sawyer claims the Coastal GasLink project lacks the required federal approvals and wants the National Energy Board to review it. Photo by Dan Mesec. The $6.2-billion Coastal GasLink pipeline may face a bigger threat than the […]
