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Judy Wilson’s Message for Canadians: ‘The Land Defenders Are Doing This for Everybody’
Judy Wilson’s Message for Canadians: ‘The Land Defenders Are Doing This for Everybody’ RCMP raids in Wet’suwet’en territory can’t bring justice, reconciliation or a better future, Neskonlith chief says. Chief Judy Wilson: ‘We have to change to ensure that our young people have a future. That’s what the Indigenous land defenders are talking about when […]
First Nations Pipeline Protest: 14 Land Protectors Arrested as Canadian Police Raid Indigenous Camp
First Nations Pipeline Protest: 14 Land Protectors Arrested as Canadian Police Raid Indigenous Camp In Canada, armed forces raided native Wet’suwet’en territory in British Columbia Monday, with at least 14 arrests being reported. Land defenders faced off with Royal Canadian Mounted Police as the police breached two checkpoints set up to keep pipeline workers out […]
BC earthquakes and fracking
BC earthquakes and fracking As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information There is no fracking going on right now in northeastern British Columbia, the epicenter of the province’s oil and gas production. Hydraulic fracturing operations have been shut down there for a month due to earthquakes […]
The Scourge of the American Petroleum Tankers That Prowl the British Columbia Coast
The Scourge of the American Petroleum Tankers That Prowl the British Columbia Coast November 26 marked a dreadful anniversary for the tanker-bedraggled British Columbia coast. One year ago in Hecate Strait, the American ATB “pusher tug” Jake Shearer broke apart from its fully loaded 10,000 deadweight-ton capacity petroleum barge and came within a stone’s throw […]
World’s Cheapest Natural Gas Market Could Be Facing A Shortage
World’s Cheapest Natural Gas Market Could Be Facing A Shortage A natural gas shortage in Canada is expected to last through the winter months, forcing gas users ranging from industrial forces to local governments to seek alternative fuel sources and strategies for slashing consumption and conserving the gas they have. The shortage stems from this […]
LNG Canada project called a ‘tax giveaway’ as B.C. approves massive subsidies
Canada and British Columbia have put “the right fiscal framework” in place for LNG Canada to go ahead, according to Shell. What that means is more than $5 billion in subsidies. Photo: Province of British Columbia / Flickr LNG Canada project called a ‘tax giveaway’ as B.C. approves massive subsidies Fracked gas export project will […]
How this man’s legal challenge could stall LNG Canada
Smithers resident Michael Sawyer is arguing to the National Energy Board that a pipeline that would serve the LNG Canada plant should have undergone a federal environmental assessment. Photo: Dan Mesec / The Narwhal IN-DEPTH How this man’s legal challenge could stall LNG Canada A massive new fracked gas export plant in Kitimat may have […]
The Fires This Time
The Fires This Time Photo Source Bureau of Land Management Oregon and Washington | CC BY 2.0 This is the crime of which I accuse my country and my countrymen, and for which neither I nor time nor history will ever forgive them, that they have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives […]
Carbon price wars–BC, Ontario or Quebec?
Carbon price wars–BC, Ontario or Quebec? The question of how the Canadian provinces should deal with the issue of greenhouse gas emissions continues to be contentious and occasionally acrimonious. The new provincial government of Ontario has declared its intention to cancel that province’s cap-and-trade system—referring to it as “a punishing, regressive tax that forces low-and […]
Canada’s Top Court Dismisses Burnaby Case Against Trans Mountain Pipeline
Canada’s Top Court Dismisses Burnaby Case Against Trans Mountain Pipeline Canada’s Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed an appeal by the City of Burnaby—the planned end point of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in British Columbia on the Pacific coast, clearing another legal hurdle for the project, which still faces several lawsuits at various Canadian courts. […]
Canada, U.S. governments watching, but not intervening, in coal mine pollution controversy
Teck’s Greenhills mountaintop removal coal mine, in B.C.’s Elk Valley. Photo: Garth Lenz. Canada, U.S. governments watching, but not intervening, in coal mine pollution controversy U.S. officials accused Canada of omitting information on selenium pollution flowing from B.C.’s Elk Valley into Montana waters The U.S. State Department is not going to intervene in a dispute […]
This Vigilante Scientist Trekked Over 10,000 Kilometres to Reveal B.C.’s Leaking Gas Wells
This Vigilante Scientist Trekked Over 10,000 Kilometres to Reveal B.C.’s Leaking Gas Wells If you’d met John Werring four years ago, he wouldn’t have been able to tell you what an abandoned gas well looked like. “We had no idea whether they were even accessible,” said the registered professional biologist. That was before the summer of 2014, […]
North America’s Next Big Shale Play
North America’s Next Big Shale Play The oil price crash of 2014 not only weighed on Canada’s oil sands industry, but it also directed more company investment into shorter-cycle shale projects in the U.S. at the expense of more capital- and energy-intensive oil sands production in Canada. While the oil sands will continue to be […]
Megadams Not Clean or Green, Says Expert
Megadams Not Clean or Green, Says Expert Forty years of research show hydro dams create environmental damage, says David Schindler. ‘When you add the emissions from building and producing materials for a dam, as well as the emissions from clearing forests and moving earth, the greenhouse gas production from hydro is expected to be about […]
“The Whole Town Is Evacuating” – Tsunami Headed For Alaska After 8.2 Magnitude Earthquake
“The Whole Town Is Evacuating” – Tsunami Headed For Alaska After 8.2 Magnitude Earthquake A powerful 8.2-magnitude earthquake detected in the Gulf of Alaska has triggered tsunami warnings in Alaska and tsunami watches across several Western states through British Columbia all the way down to San Diego… Earthquake watches are also in effect for Hawaii […]
