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Thousands told to evacuate due to British Columbia, Canada wildfire
Thousands told to evacuate due to British Columbia, Canada wildfire Reuters Smoke rises from Alberta wildfire near TeePee Creek Thousands of Canadians have been ordered to leave their homes in Fort Nelson, British Columbia due to the threat of a wildfire. The blaze began on Friday night and was described by officials as “exhibiting extreme […]
Old-Growth Forest Logging Approvals Are Soaring in BC
Old-Growth Forest Logging Approvals Are Soaring in BC Companies are rushing to get permits before protection comes for critical areas, advocates say. In the year since the government received a report recommending increased old-growth protection, approvals jumped 43 per cent. Photo by TJ Watt, Ancient Forest Alliance. New mapping released today by the Wilderness Committee indicates […]
‘A Monstrous Monument to Greed and Stupidity’: Critics React to Site C Decision
‘A Monstrous Monument to Greed and Stupidity’: Critics React to Site C Decision BC Liberals accuse NDP of mismanagement; Greens warn public to brace for higher costs. Premier John Horgan confirmed today that construction of the Site C dam will once again go ahead. ‘I know there are a lot of British Columbians who have […]
Horgan Seems Fine with Muzzling the True Site C Watchdog
Horgan Seems Fine with Muzzling the True Site C Watchdog The independent BC Utilities Commission demanded answers on risks and was brushed off. The independent BC Utilities Commission posed tough but ignored questions to BC Hydro about constructing Site C on unstable ground. Photo: BC Hydro. BC Hydro has, in a Trumpian gesture, brushed off the […]
LNG in BC Is a ‘Losing’ Bet, Report Finds
LNG in BC Is a ‘Losing’ Bet, Report Finds New analysis calls out rosy job projections for industry ‘misleading’ and unrealistic. BC’s LNG Canada project under construction earlier this year. Photo by Robin Rowland, the Canadian Press. A respected U.S. energy group has criticized a rosy Conference Board of Canada report championing more liquefied natural gas development […]
B.C. gives Pacific BioEnergy green light to log rare inland rainforest for wood pellets
Conservation North director and ecologist Michelle Connolly sits in front of B.C.’s rare inland rainforest, which it set to be logged for pellets this winter. Photo: Sean O’Rourke NEWS B.C. gives Pacific BioEnergy green light to log rare inland rainforest for wood pellets Prince George plant will grind ancient cedar and hemlock into pellets to […]
Indigenous Land Rights Action Blocks Northern BC Highway
Indigenous Land Rights Action Blocks Northern BC Highway Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en members join day of action to support Ontario nation locked in conflict over development on its traditional territory. About 50 people marched on Highway 16 in New Hazelton as part of a national day of action on Indigenous land rights. Photo by Amanda Follett Hosgood. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
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 […]
As Hydro Rates Climb, an Idea to Reduce Bills for Low-income Folks
As Hydro Rates Climb, an Idea to Reduce Bills for Low-income Folks Advocates pitch affordability program, but minister insists rates are modest. ‘Most other jurisdictions in North America have bill affordability programs. We don’t.’ Bill photo via Shutterstock. With electricity rates continuing to spiral upwards, an advocacy organization is pushing to have BC Hydro adopt measures to […]
Site C Is a Climate-Change Disaster, Says Suzuki
Site C Is a Climate-Change Disaster, Says Suzuki ‘We have to rethink everything’ says noted environmentalist. A Tyee Q&A. David Suzuki and Grand Chief Stewart Phillip at a media scrum outside the B.C. Superior Court Monday morning. Photo by Mychaylo Prystupa. Flooding valuable farmland to build the Site C dam undermines Canada’s commitment to meet […]
