Search A PROGRESSIVE TAKE ON BC ISSUES ABOUT TOPICS AUTHORS ARCHIVE FEATURES Jun 25, 2020 British Columbia’s largest raw log exporters make pitch to deregulate By Ben Parfitt Federal government…
Highly Respected CCPA Journalist Ben Parfitt For more than two years, the British Columbia government has vigorously fought efforts to compel the release of information on the hundreds of millions…
IN-DEPTH A controversial timber-pricing system may be to blame as forestry companies log the best and leave the rest Ben Parfitt Nov 30, 2019 8 min read Large numbers of…
Early last spring, provincial civil servants cut off virtually all communication about what the government knew about a sprawling network of potentially dangerous and unregulated dams in northeast B.C. on…
The number of unlicensed and potentially dangerous dams built in recent years in northeast British Columbia is nearly double what has been reported, according to one of the province’s top…
Originally published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. More than half of nearly 50 dams that fossil fuel companies built in recent years without first obtaining the proper permits…
The provincial government has ordered Progress Energy to drain virtually all of the water trapped behind two massive dams the company built in violation of key provincial regulations. The company…
A subsidiary of Petronas, the Malaysian state-owned petro giant courted by the B.C. government, has built at least 16 unauthorized dams in northern B.C. to trap hundreds of millions of…
By Ben Parfitt for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Efforts by BC Hydro to ban potentially destructive natural gas company fracking operations in the vicinity of its biggest dams…
By Ben Parfitt for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Efforts by BC Hydro to ban potentially destructive natural gas company fracking operations in the vicinity of its biggest dams…
By Ben Parfitt for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Senior BC Hydro officials have quietly feared for years that earthquakes triggered by natural gas industry fracking operations could damage…
By Ben Parfitt for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Senior BC Hydro officials have quietly feared for years that earthquakes triggered by natural gas industry fracking operations could damage…
Toxic heavy metals, including arsenic, barium, cadmium, lithium and lead, are flowing unchecked into the Peace River following a series of unusual landslides that may be linked to B.C's natural…
Toxic heavy metals, including arsenic, barium, cadmium, lithium and lead, are flowing unchecked into the Peace River following a series of unusual landslides that may be linked to natural gas…
If California’s farmers ever run out of the water needed to irrigate their crops, we’ll be in for a rude awakening. With 70 per cent of British Columbia’s imported fruits…
If California’s farmers ever run out of the water needed to irrigate their crops, we’ll be in for a rude awakening. With 70 per cent of British Columbia’s imported fruits…
On January 20, BC Hydro issued a press release singing the praises of a new hydro transmission line not far from where preliminary work has begun to build the $9-billion…
On January 20, BC Hydro issued a press release singing the praises of a new hydro transmission line not far from where preliminary work has begun to build the $9-billion…
