Five Seriously Disturbing B.C. Political Donations
The 2014 financial reports from B.C.’s political parties are out and my face hurts from all of the eyebrow raising. Donations to political parties from corporations are banned federally, but…
Emma Gilchrist
B.C. Mayors Declare ‘Non-Confidence’ in NEB, Call on Feds to Halt Review of Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline
The mayors of Vancouver, Burnaby, New Westminster, City of North Vancouver, Victoria, Squamish and Bowen Island have declared their “non-confidence” in the National Energy Board’s (NEB) review of Kinder Morgan’s…
UVic Report Calling for Updates to Charities Law Creates Stir
The release of a University of Victoria study calling for updates to Canadian charitable law created quite a stir last week. The study, prepared for DeSmog Canada, was covered by…
Canada’s Charitable Law Urgently Needs Reforming: New UVic Report
Attachment Size Modernizing-Canadian-Charitable-Law.pdf 1.84 MB A report released today by the University of Victoria’s Environmental Law Centre calls for sweeping reform of Canadian charitable law in line with other jurisdictions…
Do Review on Site C, Says Joint Panel Chief
This piece originally appeared in the Times Colonist. At a cost of $8.8 billion, the construction of the Site C dam would entail the largest outlay of taxpayer money in…
Do Review on Site C, Says Joint Panel Chief
This piece originally appeared in the Times Colonist. At a cost of $8.8 billion, the construction of the Site C dam would entail the largest outlay of taxpayer money in…
‘Unprecedented’ Comments from Chair of Site C Dam Panel Raised in B.C. Question Period
Revelations from DeSmog Canada’s exclusive sit-down interview with Harry Swain, the chair of the panel that reviewed the $8.8 billion Site C dam, were raised during question period in the…
‘Unprecedented’ Comments from Chair of Site C Dam Panel Raised in B.C. Question Period
Revelations from DeSmog Canada’s exclusive sit-down interview with Harry Swain, the chair of the panel that reviewed the $8.8 billion Site C dam, were raised during question period in the…
‘Dereliction of Duty’: Chair of Site C Panel on B.C.’s failure to Investigate Alternatives to Mega Dam
Part 1 of DeSmog Canada’s exclusive sit-down interview with Harry Swain, the man who chaired the panel tasked with reviewing BC Hydro’s Site C dam, sparked a firestorm of activity…
‘Dereliction of Duty’: Chair of Site C Panel on B.C.’s Failure to Investigate Alternatives to Mega Dam
Part 1 of DeSmog Canada’s exclusive sit-down interview with Harry Swain, the man who chaired the panel tasked with reviewing BC Hydro’s Site C dam, sparked a firestorm of activity…
EXCLUSIVE: B.C. Government Should Have Deferred Site C Dam Decision, Says Chair of Joint Review Panel
Attachment Size SiteC-CleanEnergy-Project-Announcement-FOI.pdf 16.78 MB In his first interview on the Site C dam, the chair of the federal-provincial panel appointed to review Canada’s largest current infrastructure project said the…
EXCLUSIVE: B.C. Government Should Have Deferred Site C Dam Decision, Says Chair of Joint Review Panel
Attachment Size SiteC-CleanEnergy-Project-Announcement-FOI.pdf 16.78 MB In his first interview on the Site C dam, the chair of the federal-provincial panel appointed to review Canada’s largest current infrastructure project said the…
18 Groups Call on Federal Politicans to Update Charities Law
Attachment Size 2015-02-11 Public Good letter K. Findlay.pdf 355.52 KB Eighteen Canadian charities have written a letter to the country’s political parties asking them for platform commitments to enhance the…
18 Groups Call on Federal Politicans to Update Charities Law
Attachment Size 2015-02-11 Public Good letter K. Findlay.pdf 355.52 KB Eighteen Canadian charities have written a letter to the country’s political parties asking them for platform commitments to enhance the…
Woodfibre LNG, Ajax Mine Dropped Big Bucks in B.C.’s Local Elections
Well, the disclosure statements are in and we now know (sort of) how much was spent trying to sway voters during B.C.’s local elections in November. In addition to disclosures…
Woodfibre LNG, Ajax Mine Dropped Big Bucks in B.C.’s Local Elections
Well, the disclosure statements are in and we now know (sort of) how much was spent trying to sway voters during B.C.’s local elections in November. In addition to disclosures…
Five Poll Results That Are Gonna Cause Oil Execs Some Headaches
Alberta Oil Magazine just published its National Survey on Energy Literacy, the culmination of 1,396 online interviews of a representative sample of Canadians conducted by Leger. The results are particularly…
A New Year’s Resolution for Alberta: Stop Mismanaging Oil Wealth
When you cover energy and environment issues day in and day out, you’re prone to having some pretty geeky fantasies. Case in point: over the holidays, my mind wandered to…
Top 10 Climate and Energy Stories of 2014
With 2014 drawing to a close, DeSmog Canada decided to take stock of its most popular stories of the year. Readers came in droves for our our in-depth reporting on…
B.C. Government Gives Go-Ahead to Site C Dam, But Fight Far From Over
The moment I caught wind that the B.C. government’s decision on the Site C dam was coming down, my mind gravitated to Ken and Arlene Boon’s farm in the Peace…