Rapper plants seeds of food security awakening
“If ferries stopped running to Vancouver Island, our grocery shelves would be completely empty after 3 days,” says food security activist-turned-rapper Jeremy Loveday. Watch his 3 min spoken word essay…
Damien Gillis
Ms. Clark goes to Ottawa…to boost BC LNG
Photo: Canadian Press Read this March 31 story from The Globe and Mail on BC Premier Christy Clark’s trip to Ottawa this week to promote the BC LNG industry and…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr: Canada used to be our moral paradigm
“I wished were more like Canadians…until you elected Stephen Harper,” quipped Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a recent Vancouver event. “You used to have this great law called the Fisheries…
Density battle goes to vote at Langley Council
Photo: Pamela Beatty Forbes / “LEAVE BROOKSWOOD ALONE” facebook page A battle has been brewing in recent months over the future of Langley, BC – a rural community on the…
Oil Sands or Tar Sands? Actually, they’re neither
Naming Alberta bitumen has become a sticky topic As the publisher of an online journal focusing on Canada’s environment and resource economy, the issue of what to call Alberta’s oil…
Oil transport engineers say Enbridge tanker plan unsafe
A group of professional engineers and professors with deep experience in fossil fuel transportation and clean-up systems says the tanker plans associated with the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline are…
Cut adrift by Harper govt, Ocean pollution expert joins aquarium
Dr. Peter Ross (photo: Tanya Brown/aquablog.ca) World-renowned ocean pollution scientist Dr. Peter Ross will continue his work through the Vancouver Aquarium, after the federal program he oversaw was shut down…
Last chance to apply for Kinder Morgan oil pipeline hearings
The window for the public to apply to participate in the upcoming National Energy Board hearings into the proposed Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion to Vancouver closes Wednesday at 11 AM…
RCMP, CSIS spying on Enbridge opponents prompts civil liberties complaints
The BC Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) filed two complaints today with regards to revelations that the RCMP and CSIS have surveilled citizens, First Nations and environmental groups openly challenging the…
Fracking tied to birth defects: Colorado study
Congenital heart defects are the leading cause of all infant deaths in the US A new study, published last week in the scientific journal Environmental Health Perspectives, draws a correlation…
Site C Dam story changes again – now it’s about powering California
The $10 Billion proposed Site C Dam could provide power for export to California, BC Hydro representatives told the Joint Review Panel examining the project on the final day of…
Chief sees major salmon farm expansion on horizon – issues urgent plea to “lock arms”
The chief of a coastal First Nation issued an urgent plea via youtube yesterday for public support in blocking plans for a major expansion of open-net pen salmon farms in…
Burnaby mayor calls BC “banana republic” over coal port review
Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan pulled no punches at a recent council meeting, criticizing the undemocratic process being led by Port Metro Vancouver to drive coal port expansion. Corrigan calls out…
Shale gas expert drills 50,000 holes in BC LNG plans
Fracking operations in BC’s Horn River Basin (Two Island Films) A new report from geoscientist and shale gas expert David Hughes offers a big reality check for BC’s proposed liquefied…
Fisheries Critic questions habitat protection handover for pipelines
An oil pipeline crossing the Tanana River in Alaska The federal NDP’s BC-based deputy fisheries critic is questioning a quiet deal signed just before Christmas that saw the Department of…
Peace Valley’s “extraordinary” farmland could feed a million people, agrologists tell Site C Dam review
The Peace River Valley is one of Canada’s most fertile regions (Damien Gillis) A pair of highly-respected agricultural experts made a compelling case this week for sparing some of BC’s…
Neil Young amps up national oil sands debate
Neil Young at a benefit concert in Toronto on Sunday (Mark Blinch/AP) When Neil Young first wandered into Canadian energy politics last year, comparing Fort McMurray to Hiroshima following a…
Disney abandons educational tour promoting fracking to kids
Ohio TV station NBC 4 is reporting that Radio Disney has decided to back out of a controversial partnership promoting fracking to elementary schoolers, labelled “Rocking in Ohio”. Disney’s participation…
Harper guts more fish protections: NEB takes over habitat along pipelines
It’s the latest in a long line of efforts by the Harper Government to dismantle Canada’s environmental laws in order to facilitate energy development. In a memorandum of understanding between…