Site C Dam: Federal panel seeks input from spurned energy watchdog
Location of proposed Site C Dam (photo: Damien Gillis) Read this Jan. 7 story from Justine Hunter in the Globe and Mail on the concerns of the federal panel reviewing…
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Conservation is good business, new trophy hunting study reminds us
Photo courtesy of Trish Boyum / Ocean Adventures A new study on trophy hunting in BC’s Great Bear Rainforest found that bear-related ecotourism generates “12 times more in visitor spending…
Fracking water issues keep bubbling to surface
Texan Steve Lipsky sparked a heated battle over fracking and water contamination (image: Gasland II) Despite the shale gas industry’s aggressive efforts to keep a lid on water use and…
Fracking California: State divided over Monterey Shale
Californians protest fracking in front of the governor’s offices, May, 2013 (Justin Sullivan/Getty) Read this Dec. 29 Los Angeles Times opinion piece by Alex Prud’homme on the potential fracking boom…
EPA watchdog finds water concerns over Texas fracking justified
Steve Lipsky’s water issues are at the centre of a regulatory controversy involving fracking in Texas Read this Dec. 24 story from Ecowatch.com and Earthworks on the findings of the…
Canadians get lots of coal, oil and gas in holiday trash dump
The Friday night trash dump is a well-known trick of governments looking to dispense with bad news as quietly as possible. Controversial announcements are made in the last hour of…
It’s all about the economy; No evidence required
This is the key takeaway from the National Energy Board’s conditional approval of the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project: The economy trumps all. Serious environmental risks, engineering concerns, the…
Groups decry proposed Fraser River toxic waste recycling site
When Chilliwack resident and conservationist Glen Thompson learned that city council had passed a bylaw amendment permitting a hazardous waste recycling facility on the banks of the Fraser River, alarm…
$10 Billion Site C Dam: You pay, no say
If you live in BC, it will cost you, conservatively, $10 Billion – paid through skyrocketing power bills and taxes. It will flood tens of thousands of acres of excellent…
Misconceptions abound in Elsipogtog media coverage
Read this Nov. 14 opinion piece by Chelsea Vowel in the Toronto Star pointing out a number of often-ignored facts in the Elsipogtog First Nation protest of explorartory work for…
Kinder Morgan files plan to turn Vancouver into ‘Port McMurray’
Kinder Morgan Canada CEO Ian Anderson talks pipelines at the Vancouver Board of Trade in 2013 It’s official. Just days before the National Energy Board is expected to announce its…
BC/Yukon First Nation bans fracking, finds impacts outweigh benefits
Fracking operation in northeast BC’s Horn River (Two Island Films, Ltd.) A First Nation with un-surrendered traditional territory in both northern BC and the Yukon passed a motion late last…
Engineers poke holes in Enbridge tanker safety plans
A group of professional engineers says the risk of a tanker spill is far greater than Enbridge suggests While the Harper Government reacts to this week’s release of a federal…
Last day to help fund Great Bear Rainforest wilderness cameras
BC-based conservation group Pacific Wild deploys stunning imagery to help protect the Great Bear Rainforest from the impacts of logging, salmon farms and, in recent years, proposed oil tanker traffic.…
MLA, Mayor turn up heat on Fraser River jet fuel, tanker plan
Fisheries expert Otto Langer and MLA Vicki Huntington take on Fraser River jet fuel plan (Brad Densmore) A group of BC politicians and community leaders held an emergency meeting yesterday…
First Nation in Ontario’s ‘Chemical Valley’ affected by pollutants
A new study is drawing attention to the health problems being faced by a First Nations community living near one of Canada’s most industrialized areas. Members of the Aamjiwnaang First…
LNG companies change pipeline routes to avoid bear sanctuaries
photo: Ian McAllister/Pacific Wild Valhalla Wilderness Society is reporting that a pair of proposed natural gas pipelines connected to liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals planned for Prince Rupert will no…
Canada’s largest energy union wants national fracking moratorium
First Nations and supporters protest fracking in Vancouver last month (Damien Gillis) Canada’s largest private sector union, Unifor, has joined the growing chorus of concern over controversial shale gas development.…
Regulator, Encana sued over fracking, water
Vancouver-based environmental law firm ecojustice announced a lawsuit Wednesday in BC court against the province’s oil and gas regulator over its allegedly unlawful issuance of water permits for fracking. The…
Map shows multiple proposed oil, gas pipelines in BC’s carbon corridor
A new map (scroll down to view) reveals the full scope of oil and gas pipelines proposed to criss-cross BC. Compiled by Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition and Skeena Wild, the…