Underground and Under Pressure: Groundwater in BC’s Northeast
Thursday, April 16, 2015 BC has had the dubious distinction of being the “Wild West for groundwater” – with no licensing of groundwater resources – for over a hundred years.…
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The #VancouverFuelSpill, Kinder Morgan & the NEB’s crisis of legitimacy
Wednesday, April 15, 2015 Staff Counsel Eugene Kung draws links between the recent oil spill in English Bay, Kinder Morgan's pipeline proposal, and why the legitimacy of the National Energy…
What’s the Drill on Gas Development in Treaty 8 Territory?
Wednesday, April 15, 2015 Staff Counsel Hannah Askew reports back from a conference in Fort St.John on gas development in Treaty 8 territory. At times inspirational and at times somber,…
Green Groups Overjoyed by New Budget Bill, Contains Everything We Ever Wanted
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 Media Release: Green groups across Canada celebrate the new federal omnibus budget bill, which makes sweeping improvements to environmental laws in Canada and rectifies all the…
Green Groups Overjoyed by New Budget Bill, Contains Everything We Ever Wanted
Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Does the Province have a Duty to Conserve?
Wednesday, March 18, 2015 Blueberry River First Nations has launched a landmark claim against the province of BC for failing to manage the cumulative impacts of industrial development on their…
Development, Community and Listening: Perspectives from community dialogues in Northwest BC
Tuesday, March 17, 2015 Despite a number of new proposals for LNG development in Northern BC, there has not yet been a provincial review of the cumulative impacts of these…
Does RCMP anti-environmentalist rhetoric make us safer?
Monday, March 16, 2015 An RCMP memo blasting Canadian environmentalists, including West Coast, as part of a harmful “anti-Canadian petroleum movement,” does not make Canadians safer. The blatant bias of…
Adding to the pile: Another legal challenge regarding Enbridge’s Northern Gateway proposal argues BC is required to make its own decision
Wednesday, February 18, 2015 The pile of lawsuits sitting on top of the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines and Tankers Project keeps getting bigger, and this time the Province of…
Reporting on the Mount Polley spill: To err is human; to err and not ask why is a failure by government regulators
Wednesday, February 18, 2015 On January 30, the Panel appointed to investigate the August 4, 2014 breach of the Mount Polley Mine tailings storage facility (TSF) released its report on…