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It Gets Even Uglier In Canada
It Gets Even Uglier In Canada The Province of Alberta, the epicenter of the Canadian oil bust, may be sliding into something much worse than a plain-vanilla recession. And it’s not exactly perking up the rest of Canada. Layoffs are already cascading through the oil patch, as companies are retrenching and adjusting to the new […]
RCMP planning mass arrests at pipeline protest camp, northern B.C chiefs fear
RCMP planning mass arrests at pipeline protest camp, northern B.C chiefs fear RCMP say they are just working to keep the peace A dispute over energy projects and aboriginal rights is heating up at a pipeline protest camp in northern B.C. where First Nations leaders fear police are planning mass arrests. Since 2009, Wet’suwet’en people, […]
Living Downstream of B.C.’s Gold Rush: Alaska’s Fishermen Fear End of ‘Last Wild Frontier’
Living Downstream of B.C.’s Gold Rush: Alaska’s Fishermen Fear End of ‘Last Wild Frontier’ No fish in the car, warned the rental car attendant at Juneau airport, with the weary tone of someone who had cleaned too many fish guts out of returned vehicles. It was a warning underlined by signs in hotels pleading with […]
Fracking triggered 2014 earthquake in northeastern B.C.
Fracking triggered 2014 earthquake in northeastern B.C. Quake one of world’s largest ever triggered by hydraulic fracturing Fracking triggered a 4.4-magnitude earthquake in northeastern B.C. last year, CBC News has learned, making it one of world’s largest earthquakes ever triggered by the controversial process. B.C.’s Oil and Gas Commission confirmed the cause of the earthquake in an email statement to CBC this […]
Another Industry Reported Quake in BC’s Fracking Grounds
Another Industry Reported Quake in BC’s Fracking Grounds Regulator says tremor likely industry-caused, but company says it’s too soon to say. Progress Energy, an arm of the Malaysian oil company Petronas, temporarily shut down operations at a wellsite after a 4.5 magnitude earthquake hit an area 114 kilometres northwest of Fort St. John on Aug. […]
LNG Project Would Affect ‘Grand Central Station’ for Salmon, Researchers Say
LNG Project Would Affect ‘Grand Central Station’ for Salmon, Researchers Say Science letter asks gov, industry to acknowledge ‘full impacts’ of BC project. The proposed Pacific Northwest LNG project and related pipelines located at the mouth of the Skeena River in northern British Columbia would affect more than 40 different salmon populations harvested in at […]
Enviro Assessment Review for Proposed $1.7-Billion LNG Plant Resumes
Enviro Assessment Review for Proposed $1.7-Billion LNG Plant Resumes Woodfibre LNG approved to continue process after 40-day delay. The B.C. government-led environmental assessment review for a proposed liquefied natural gas plant in Howe Sound has resumed. The 180-day process was paused June 30, after the Squamish Nation issued a 25-point ultimatum to address concerns about […]
Is Natural Gas As Clean As We Think?
Is Natural Gas As Clean As We Think? This week U.S. President Barack Obama took aim at the American coal industry as part of a comprehensive climate change plan to limit air emissions from what many consider the country’s worst polluter. Under the plan, states will have until 2030 to cut CO2 levels by a third from […]
Petronas’s Silence on BC LNG Act Sends Disquieting Signal
Petronas’s Silence on BC LNG Act Sends Disquieting Signal Busy passing project terms, BC forgot to check on events abroad. As the British Columbia legislature passed its “historic” Liquefied Natural Gas Project Agreements Act on July 21 after a lively eight-day debate, the most important player for which the special summer session of Parliament was […]
As Site C Breaks Ground, Linked Union Declares Opposition
As Site C Breaks Ground, Linked Union Declares Opposition BCGEU cites First Nation infringement and loss of habitat in motion against controversial dam. The union representing many British Columbia government workers has taken a position against building the Site C dam, a project some of its members are working on and that other unions support. […]
BC’s Gas Export Hopes Face ‘Scandal that Ate Malaysia’
BC’s Gas Export Hopes Face ‘Scandal that Ate Malaysia’ Asian nation’s PM, key to $36 billion LNG bid by Petronas, in corruption probe. The prime minister of Malaysia, who is central to British Columbia’s liquefied natural gas development ambitions, is the subject of a major financial corruption scandal rocking his country. Earlier this month The […]
B.C. fires: More than 100 new wildfires in 24 hours
B.C. fires: More than 100 new wildfires in 24 hours Lightning, heat and high winds combine to create challenging conditions for firefighters In just 24 hours, 115 new wildfires have flared up across B.C. — most of them in the Kamloops area and the southeast part of the province. “Lightning was a huge driver of increased fire activity yesterday […]
Nine LNG Questions for British Columbians to Ask Their Politicians
Nine LNG Questions for British Columbians to Ask Their Politicians Pressing queries in light of high-stakes Petronas agreement just passed. The British Columbia legislature has just ratified a long-term agreement to lower royalties and taxes for a $38-billion liquefied natural gas project proposed by Malaysia’s state-owned oil company, Petronas. Pacific Northwest LNG, a consortium that […]
Fracking Industry Has Changed Earthquake Patterns in Northeast BC
Fracking Industry Has Changed Earthquake Patterns in Northeast BC Impact on groundwater and migrating gases mostly unknown, critics say. A special report. New research and presentations by both provincial and federal scientists show that the shale gas industry, which the B.C. government hopes will eventually supply proposed liquefied natural gas terminals with fracked gas, has caused […]
B.C. wildfire forces evacuation near Shelter Cove area of West Kelowna
B.C. wildfire forces evacuation near Shelter Cove area of West Kelowna Darkness preventing helicopter or air tanker support from effectively assisting firefighters Fire crews and officials scrambled to keep residents safe from a quickly spreading blaze near Westside Road in West Kelowna, B.C., which has so far destroyed at least one home. The wildfire was sparked by lightning on Sunday […]
