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A Dam(n) Big Fracking Problem
A Dam(n) Big Fracking Problem Regulators left behind as industry built dozens of unauthorized dams — many at risk of failure. The province’s Environmental Assessment Office has ordered Progress Energy to drain almost all water from this seven-storey dam, built without required approvals. The company is now seeking a retroactive exemption from the assessment process. […]
Lessons from the front lines of anti-colonial pipeline resistance
Lessons from the front lines of anti-colonial pipeline resistance A bridge leads to the entrance of the Unist’ot’en territory in British Columbia, Canada. (WNV/Jeff Nicholls) The Standing Rock standoff over the Dakota Access Pipeline was a reminder that colonization, and resistance to it, both exist in the present tense. Fossil fuel pipelines that despoil indigenous […]
Behind Vancouver’s Housing Bubble: How Canadian Casinos Are Use To Launder Millions In Chinese Drug Money
Behind Vancouver’s Housing Bubble: How Canadian Casinos Are Use To Launder Millions In Chinese Drug Money Nearly two years after we first observed that Vancouver‘s soaring real estate market is nothing but a bubbling melange of criminal Chinese oligarch “hot money”, desperate to get parked offshore in any piece of real estate, but mostly in […]
BC Premier Says Kinder Morgan Pipeline Plan Meets Her Conditions, Opposition Objects
BC Premier Says Kinder Morgan Pipeline Plan Meets Her Conditions, Opposition Objects Project’s foes call Clark’s decision a ‘surprise to absolutely no one’ and ‘simply deceitful.’ Premier Clark on approval the Trans Mountain expansion: “We always said the five conditions were a path to ‘yes’ and that if the project met the five conditions we […]
Trudeau Approves Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline As Part of Canada’s ‘Climate Plan’
Trudeau Approves Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline As Part of Canada’s ‘Climate Plan’ Justin Trudeau announced the approval of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline Tuesday, saying the project is integral to meeting Canada’s climate commitments. “Today’s decision is an integral part of our plan to uphold the Paris Agreement to reduce emissions while creating jobs and […]
David Suzuki: We Can’t Dig Our Way Out of the Fossil Fuels Hole
David Suzuki: We Can’t Dig Our Way Out of the Fossil Fuels Hole I’ve often thought politicians inhabit a parallel universe. Maybe it’s just widespread cognitive dissonance, coupled with a lack of imagination, that compels them to engage in so much contradictory behaviour. Trying to appease so many varying interests isn’t easy. Rather than focusing on […]
Premier Clark on ‘Historic Debt Binge,’ Says Conservative Leader
Premier Clark on ‘Historic Debt Binge,’ Says Conservative Leader ‘Debt-free BC’ 2013 campaign promise called unrealistic, simplistic. Clark promised LNG revenue would mean ‘debt-free BC.’ Instead, debt up 45 per cent during her tenure. David P. Ball Premier Christy Clark won the provincial election in 2013 promising a “Debt-Free BC,” but an opponent now accuses her […]
Ottawa sets up working group to monitor housing market
Ottawa sets up working group to monitor housing market Finance Minister Bill Morneau says he will work with cities and provinces to get more and better data Policymakers are looking at all the tools at their disposal to take care of the housing market. (David Donnelly/CBC) The federal government plans to work with British Columbia […]
‘No Need for Site C’: Review Panel Chair Speaks Out Against Dam in New Video
‘No Need for Site C’: Review Panel Chair Speaks Out Against Dam in New Video A new video released today by DeSmog Canada features an exclusive video interview with Harry Swain, chair of the federal-provincial panel tasked with reviewing the controversial Site C dam. “I think we’re making a big mistake, a very expensive one,” Swain says in […]
NEB approves Trans Mountain pipeline with 157 conditions
NEB approves Trans Mountain pipeline with 157 conditions Federal government has 7 months to make decision on controversial project Coastal communities in B.C. have raised serious concerns about spill risk and the potential damage it could cause to the environment. (Kinder Morgan) Is a Calgary-based journalist with CBC’s network business unit. You can contact him […]
Major BC Liberal Donor Named in Panama Papers
Major BC Liberal Donor Named in Panama Papers Haywood Securities listed as a shareholder in firms registered in British Virgin Islands. Finance Minister Michael de Jong said he had ‘no knowledge’ of a BC Liberal donor being named in the Panama Papers. Photo: BC Gov’t Flickr. The name of a major donor to the British […]
House flipping tax could curb speculative foreign money, CIBC says
House flipping tax could curb speculative foreign money, CIBC says Tax on home flippers may be helpful, but most foreign investors are likely legitimate, Benjamin Tal says Canada lacks concrete data on the level of foreign investment in the country’s housing market, experts say. (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg) Canada may consider a tax on foreign investors flipping […]
Gov’t Using Misleading Accounting at BC Hydro, Charges Dix
Gov’t Using Misleading Accounting at BC Hydro, Charges Dix Minister counters that ‘rate-smoothing’ accounts make sense due to 10-year plan for rate increases. BC Hydro transmission tower on Mt. Seymour. Photo by agaumont from Your BC: The Tyee’s Photo Pool. The British Columbia government has chosen to use misleading accounting at BC Hydro to fudge the province’s finances […]
Four More Whoppers about LNG in British Columbia
Four More Whoppers about LNG in British Columbia The real facts behind Christy Clark’s rosy claims. BC Premier Christy Clark: a million-dollar website to drum up LNG jobs, but not a single job yet. The B.C. budget claims the province is making money from shale gas. But last month The Tyee showed the province is pouring more […]
