Grupo Mexico’s Buenavista del Cobre mine Read this Aug 11 story from mining-technology.com on a toxic wastewater spill from a Mexican copper mine. Mexican authorities have imposed restrictions on water…
Conservative MP John Weston By Laura Anderson On August 6, 2014, John Weston took space in The Local to append his name to an op-ed criticizing West Vancouver council’s motion…
Aerial view of debris from Mount Polley Minine tailings pond breach (Cariboo Regional District) Read this August 9 update from CBC.ca on the water quality situation surrounding the Mount Polley…
Tahltan First Nations and their supporters peacefully occupying a Fortune Minerals drill in the Sacred Headwaters last year Read this August 8 story from the Terrace Standard on the renewed…
BC Minister of Energy and Mines Bill Bennett (CP) By Alex Hanson The Bill Bennett dog and pony show has been wheeled out in the media once again, this time…
BC Premier Christy Clark addresses a conference on LNG (Damien Gillis) This is a guest post by Mark Jaccard, professor of sustainable energy at Simon Fraser University and a convening…
By David Lavallee Documentary filmmaker David Lavallee recently journeyed to Canada’s arctic for his forthcoming film, To the Ends of the Earth, which drills deep into the modern age of…
Malaysian PM Najib Razak and Stephen Harper in Kuala Lumpur (AP/Lai Seng Sin) Read this July 24 story by Jeff Lee in the Financial Post on the federal tax concessions…
Read this July 25 story from the Vancouver Sun, which undermines the BC Liberal government’s promises of jobs for British Columbians from their proposed LNG industry. The federal government’s foreign…
Read this July 29 story from the Associated Press, via globalnews.ca, on the latest twist in the battle ove water in Detroit. DETROIT – Control of Detroit’s massive municipal water…
The Common Sense Canadian’s Damien Gillis discusses the BC Liberal government’s real fiscal track record with CFAX radio’s Ian Jessop in Victoria. The two contrast a history of serious cost-overruns…
photo: Tina Lovgreen / BCIT Commons Read this July 29 editorial by renowned BC political commentator Keith Baldrey in the Burnaby Now on the fairytale that is Christy Clark’s LNG…
Kinder Morgan Canada President Ian Anderson at a Vancouver Board of Trade talk (photo: Kinder Morgan) Read this July 29 story by Jennifer Moreau in the Burnaby Now on Kinder…
Beluga whales in captivity at the Vancouver Aquarium Read this August 1 story from CBC.ca on the Vancouver Parks Board decision allowing the Aquarium to keep cetaceans in captivity, with…
A fracking drill near Dawson Creek in northeast BC (courtesy of Two Island Films) Read this July 24 Globe and Mail story by Andrea Woo on a new study which…
Construction of a private power project on the Ashlu River (Photo: Range Life) Read this July 24 op-ed in The Vancouver Sun by the former head of the Association of…
Read this June 25th story by Wendy J. Palen, Thomas D. Sisk, Maureen E. Ryan, Joseph L. Árvai, Mark Jaccard, Anne K. Salomon, Thomas Homer-Dixon& Ken P. Lertzman in Nature…
Fraser Surrey Docks is seeking to expand coal exports – something Metro Vancouver takes issue with Read this July 9 story by Jeff Nagel in the Peace Arch News on…
BC Premier Clark has made big promises about LNG which now look hard to fulfill (Photo: Flickr) Read this July 15 Vancouver Sun column from Vaughan Palmer on the sharply…
Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan has been a thorn in Kinder Morgan’s side (Image: Youtube) Read this July 15 story from Emma Gilchrist in Desmog Blog on the delay to the…
