Geothermal Offers Cheaper, Cleaner Alternative to Site C Dam: New Report
Geothermal energy offers a low-cost, clean and viable alternative to the $8 billion Site C dam proposed for the Peace River, according to a new report released Tuesday by the…
Emma Gilchrist
Energy Executive Quits Trans Mountain Pipeline Review, Calls NEB Process A ‘Public Deception’
An energy executive is weighing in on the federal review of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion with a scathing letter that calls the National Energy Board’s review process…
Energy Executive Quits Trans Mountain Pipeline Review, Calls NEB Process A ‘Public Deception’
An energy executive is weighing in on the federal review of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion with a scathing letter that calls the National Energy Board’s review process…
Energy Executive Quits Trans Mountain Pipeline Review, Calls NEB Process A ‘Public Deception’
An energy executive is weighing in on the federal review of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion with a scathing letter that calls the National Energy Board’s review process…
Peace Valley Landowners Take B.C. Government to Court Over Site C Dam Economics
The Peace Valley Landowner Association has served a petition for judicial review asking the B.C. Supreme Court to quash the provincial environmental assessment certificated granted Oct. 14 to BC Hydro…
Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Advertising Blitz During Election Doesn’t Count as Elections Advertising: Elections BC Ruling
Kinder Morgan has launched an advertising campaign pushing the company’s proposed Trans Mountain pipeline expansion that just so happens to coincide with B.C.’s municipal elections — but Elections BC says…
B.C. LNG Strategy Won’t Help Solve Global Climate Change: New Pembina Institute Report
The B.C. government’s claim that LNG exports offer the “greatest single step British Columbia can take to fight climate change” is inaccurate in the absence of stronger global climate policies…
B.C. LNG Strategy Won’t Help Solve Global Climate Change: New Pembina Institute Report
The B.C. government’s claim that LNG exports offer the “greatest single step British Columbia can take to fight climate change” is inaccurate in the absence of stronger global climate policies…
Right-Wing Charities Escaping CRA Audits: New Report from Broadbent Institute
A new report from the Broadbent Institute raises fresh questions about whether Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) audits are being used as a politicized tool to pressure critics of the federal…
Right-Wing Charities Escaping CRA Audits: New Report from Broadbent Institute
A new report from the Broadbent Institute raises fresh questions about whether Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) audits are being used as a politicized tool to pressure critics of the federal…
Site C Dam Gets Federal and Provincial Approval, But B.C. Investment Decision Still Pending
The provincial and federal governments have issued an environmental approval certificate for the Site C dam despite acknowledging it will cause significant adverse environmental effects. “Those effects are justified in…
Fiery Saskatchewan Train Derailment Raises Fresh Questions About Oil-By-Rail Safety
A fiery CN train derailment in rural Saskatchewan has many people asking what could have happened if the accident occurred in a more populated area. The 100-car freight train derailed…
Fiery Saskatchewan Train Derailment Raises Fresh Questions About Oil-By-Rail Safety
A fiery CN train derailment in rural Saskatchewan has many people asking what could have happened if the accident occurred in a more populated area. The 100-car freight train derailed…
Postmedia Could Soon Own Almost Every English Newspaper in Canada: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Postmedia has struck a $316 million deal to buy 175 of Quebecor’s English-language newspapers, specialty publications and digital properties, including the Sun chain of papers, according to a report in…
Postmedia Could Soon Own Almost Every English Newspaper in Canada: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Postmedia has struck a $316 million deal to buy 175 of Quebecor’s English-language newspapers, specialty publications and digital properties, including the Sun chain of papers, according to a report in…
Five Reasons B.C. Should Say No to the Site C Dam
A recent poll found only six in 10 British Columbians have heard of BC Hydro’s $8 billion proposal to build a third hydroelectric dam on the Peace River. But the…
First Nations Rally to Save Lake Winnipeg From Blue-Green Algae Curse
In 2010, Gord Bluesky, the lands and resources manager for Brokenhead Ojibway Nation, received a disturbing photograph in his inbox. “One of my community members was at Patricia Beach. It…
The Downside of The Boom: Fort St. John Mayor Worries Site C Dam Will Put Strain On Community
Projects like the $7.9-billion Site C dam cannot be built “on the shoulders of communities,” says the mayor of Fort St. John, B.C., a city located just seven kilometres from…
Two Hydro Dams and 16,000 Oil and Gas Wells: Has the Peace Already Paid Its Price For B.C.’s Prosperity?
It’s a sweltering 35 degrees as I pull up to a trailer housing the W.A.C. Bennett Dam visitor centre just outside Hudson’s Hope, 100 kilometres west of Fort St. John.…
Field of Dreams: Peace Valley Farmers, Ranchers Fight to Keep Land Above Water As Site C Dam Decision Looms
In 1920, Renee Ardill’s grandparents arrived in the Peace Valley with nothing more than a milk cow, saddle horse and team and wagon. They chose a piece of land on…