By Tim Burkhart, former researcher with the Cohen Commission and Peace River Break Coordinator with the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative.
Braving freezing temperatures and risking arrest, an alliance of First Nations members and local land…
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Area to be Flooded By Site C Dam Was Once Recommended as Provincial Park
By Tim Burkhart, former researcher with the Cohen Commission and Peace River Break Coordinator with the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative.
Braving freezing temperatures and risking arrest, an alliance of First Nations members and local land…
What’s good for the BC Liberals may not be good for BC Hydro
By Dermod Travis, executive director of IntegrityBC.
One of the last things anyone would ever imagine the B.C. government doing is adopting an old NDP program, but that’s exactly what Energy and Mines Minister Bill Bennett did this month when he annou…
What’s good for the BC Liberals may not be good for BC Hydro
By Dermod Travis, executive director of IntegrityBC.
One of the last things anyone would ever imagine the B.C. government doing is adopting an old NDP program, but that’s exactly what Energy and Mines Minister Bill Bennett did this month when he annou…
Nova Scotia to Repay ExxonMobil $100M in Royalty Return as Hospital Replacement Postponed
By James Hutt, Director of the Nova Scotia Health Coalition.
As Nova Scotia is forcing low income seniors to pay more for drugs and the province’s largest hospital is literally swimming in rodents and disease, tax payers are being asked to cough up …
Nova Scotia to Repay ExxonMobil $100M in Royalty Return as Hospital Replacement Postponed
By James Hutt, Director of the Nova Scotia Health Coalition.
As Nova Scotia is forcing low income seniors to pay more for drugs and the province’s largest hospital is literally swimming in rodents and disease, tax payers are being asked to cough up …
Alberta’s Unprotected Foothills Forest No Longer a Refuge for Threatened Species
By Chris Wood. This article originally appeared on The Tyee.
The sound of water is loud in a land muffled by snow. No human sound penetrates this broad valley between tapering extensions of the Rocky Mountains, 100 kilometres southwest of Grand Pra…
Alberta’s Unprotected Foothills Forest No Longer a Refuge for Threatened Species
This article originally appeared on The Tyee. By Chris Wood.
The sound of water is loud in a land muffled by snow. No human sound penetrates this broad valley between tapering extensions of the Rocky Mountains, 100 kilometres southwest of Grand Prai…
Lobbyists Outnumber B.C. MLAs 30 to One
This is a guest post by Dermod Travis, executive director of IntegrityBC.
Last month, lobbyists gathered in Vancouver for The Future of Lobbying, a one -day conference put on by B.C.’s Office of the Registrar of Lobbyists, Simon Fraser Institute’s G…
Lobbyists Outnumber B.C. MLAs 30 to One
This is a guest post by Dermod Travis, executive director of IntegrityBC.
Last month, lobbyists gathered in Vancouver for The Future of Lobbying, a one -day conference put on by B.C.’s Office of the Registrar of Lobbyists, Simon Fraser Institute’s G…
While Canadians Obsess Over Pipelines, Domestic Solar Companies Make Major Investment Moves in India
This is a guest post by Sarah Petrevan, senior policy adviser at Clean Energy Canada, a program of Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Dialogue.
The big energy story this week in Canada is pipelines. Yet again.
Why? There’s controversy, for star…
While Canadians Obsess Over Pipelines, Domestic Solar Companies Make Major Investment Moves in India
This is a guest post by Sarah Petrevan, senior policy adviser at Clean Energy Canada, a program of Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Dialogue.
The big energy story this week in Canada is pipelines. Yet again.
Why? There’s controversy, for star…
Liberals’ Interim Pipeline Measures Fall Short
This is a guest post by Ecojustice National Program Director Barry Robinson and staff lawyers Charles Hatt and Karen Campbell. It originally appeared on the Ecojustice website.
The Harper government’s 2012 environmental law rollbacks were a …
Continue reading4 Key Questions for Canada’s New Pipeline, LNG Climate Test
This article by policy analyst Matt Horne originally appeared on the Pembina Institute website.
Last week, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna and Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr announced Canada’s intention to apply a climate test to maj…
David Suzuki: Paris Changed Everything, So Why Are We Still Talking Pipelines?
This is a guest post by David Suzuki.
With the December Paris climate agreement, leaders and experts from around the world showed they overwhelmingly accept that human-caused climate change is real and, because the world has continued to increase fo…
In the Energy East Fight, We All Want the Same Things
This is a guest post by Mitchell Beer. It originally appeared on GreenPAC.
The pitched media battle between Mayors Denis Coderre of Montreal and Naheed Nenshi of Calgary shows just how quickly the political debate can get nasty when the things that ma…
David Suzuki: Environmental Rights Are Human Rights
My grandparents came here from Japan at the beginning of the 20th century. Although it would be a one-way trip, the perilous journey across the Pacific was worth the risk. They left behind extreme poverty for a wealth of opportunity.
But Canada was di…
Q&A: Dogwood Initiative’s Kai Nagata on the Fate of the Trans Mountain Pipeline
This is an interview between Max Fawcett, editor-in-chief of Vancouver Magazine, and Kai Nagata, energy and democracy director at the Dogwood Initiative. The interview originally appeared on Vancouver Magazine. Max Fawcett: What are your thoughts on B…
Continue readingWe Are the World; We Must Act On That Understanding
This is a guest post by David Suzuki.
The coming year looks bright with the promise of change after a difficult decade for environmentalists and our issues. But even with a new government that quickly moved to gender equity in cabinet, expanded the …
Our Voices And Actions Bring Hope For The Year Ahead
This is a guest post by David Suzuki.
Like any year, 2015 had its share of good and bad, tragedy and beauty, hope and despair. It’s difficult not to get discouraged by events like the Syrian war and refugee crisis, violent outbreaks in Beirut, Par…