Read this Jan. 9 Vancouver Sun story on the unusually short public comment period set by the National Energy Board for the proposed Kinder Morgan oil pipeline expansion to Vancouver…
Legendary rocker Neil Young should mind his own carbon footprint, says Stephen Harper Read this Jan. 12 story from Sun News on Stephen Harper’s response to an anti-Tar Sands tour…
Tanks containing radioactive water at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant (Issei Kato / Reuters) Read this Jan. 9 story from RT.com, reporting on the failure of the water decontamination system at…
Security Intelligence Review Committee head and ex-Conservative MP Chuck Strahl (Adrian Wyld/CP) Read this Jan. 10 story from CBC.ca on further revelations of Canadian spy agency watchdogs with lobbying ties…
Read this Jan 8 story from Aljazeera America on Radio Disney’s controverisal participation in an educational tour of Ohio, promoting fracking to kids. An educational program funded by Ohio’s oil…
Read this inspiring story from The Guardian on Spain’s dramatic increase of renewable energy and consequent 23% decline in energy-related carbon emissions. Remarkable new figures from Spain’s grid operator have…
Exploding rail cars in last year’s Lac-Mégantic catastrophe were carrying highly flammable oil products Read this Jan. 6 column from Reuters energy analyst John Kemp on the risks posed to…
Artist’s rendering of proposed Woodfibre LNG terminal in Howe Sound, BC Read this Jan. 6 Globe and Mail story by Mark Hume on BC Premier Christy Clark’s push to get…
Emergency responders stayed back from the NB train derailment due to safety concerns (wagmtv.com) Read this Jan. 8 story from CBC.ca on the latest derailment of a train carrying petroleum…
Read this Jan 6 story from the Huffington Post on the backlash generated by a recent 60 Minutes exposé titled “Cleantech Crash”. A recent “60 Minutes” segment is drawing sharp…
This school playground in Farmington, BC, sits a few hundred meters from a sour gas well (Damien Gillis) Read this December 29 Vancouver Sun story from Stephen Hume on the…
Read this Dec. 19 story from The Georgia Straight on Vancouver City Council’s vote to apply for intervener status in the upcoming National Energy Board hearings into Kinder Morgan’s recently…
Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson (photo: facebook) Read this Dec. 4 story from The Province on the City of Vancouver’s opposition to the proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion. Vancouver will oppose…
Read this Dec. 5 story from The New York Times on a new report by the environmental data company CDP which shows that at least 29 large American companies are…
by Sid Tafler As 2013 winds down, veteran BC journalist Sid Tafler looks back at the province’s 2013 election and the surprising (to some) victory of the BC Liberal Party.…
Read this Nov. 28 story from 24 Hours on Surrey, BC’s ambitious plan to develop its own network of light rail lines, which it says will better service the community’s…
1988 image of effluent from Teck’s lead and Zinc smelter in Trail, BC (photo: Joel Rogers) Read this Nov. 25 story from CBC.ca on a potential lawsuit involving downstream pollution…
The days of the family farm are numbered if we don’t act to protect BC’s ALR now, says ex-Minister Corky Evans by Corky Evans Imagine that you might, someday, want…
The Clore River (Neil Ever Osborne/ILCP) Read this Nov. 22 story from Larry Pynn in The Vancouver Sun on Enbridge’s plan to resurrect a private run-of-river project on the Clore…
Read this Nov. 15 story from Mark Hume at The Globe and Mail on the losing battle to protect BC farmland from development. The way farmland is managed in British…
