I have called it the Campbell/Clark government because that’s what it is. Premier Clark was in on the beginning of most policies including the disastrous energy plan that sees private…
Editor's Note: Despite the criticism of BC Hydro's big-dollar infrastructure plans by the BC Liberal Government following its handpicked panel review of the utility's proposed rate hikes, Energy Minister Rich…
Responsibility for reducing carbon dioxide emissions is falling to cities, municipalities and regional districts because wider efforts during the last 30 years to ameliorate the threat of global climate change…
It's impossible to divine anything concrete from the flurry of interesting chatter surrounding Enbridge's embattled 1,100 km Northern Gateway Pipeline proposal. Alternate routes, Asian energy experts laughing at our stupidity,…
The response of the private power industry (IPPs) to the recently released study on BC Hydro is goofy even against other barmy statements they make. The defence against the charge…
Rafe Mair and Damien Gillis discuss The Common Sense Canadian and their coverage of key environmental and public policy issues in BC and Canada on Shaw's EVOTV, with host Irma…
This will be a short blog because the point is simple…and devastating. Mark down August 12, 2011 as the day BC Hydro all but concluded its suicide mission, with the…
Part 2 of a 2-part series - read part 1 here.When does a foreign-owned corporation’s right to protect its share price trump the environment and Canadian public’s rights? Apparently, when…
What do families have to do with the environment? Quite a bit, actually. The Campbell/Clark government is looking for an issue to run on and the Family is the answer…
"Don't worry, be happy" is the refuge of the deceived and the oblivious, the attitude that people assume when they fail to recognize the reality of their situation. "Trust us,"…
Part 1 of a 2-part series - watch for Part 2 this ThursdayThis past year, the Norwegian-controlled salmon farming industry spent $1.5 million on a glitzy advertising campaign in BC,…
The Campbell/Clark government has done it again. Now wolves will be wiped out in BC because, it's alleged (by ranchers), that their cattle are being slaughtered by wolves. Ranchers are…
Until a couple of months ago I had never heard of "fracking". I now understand why. And I should have known. Governments, by long standing habit, don't like smarty pants…
It’s August 1 – British Columbia Day. This being a relatively new holiday, we have not really come up with a tradition such as we have on Thanksgiving and Christian…
When Elijah was four years old, he wanted to dress as a polar bear for Halloween trick-or-treating so his mother, Sandra, sewed him a costume from an old white bed…
There are many instances I've come across in the past number of years which suggest to me the Campbell/Clark Government places no real value on the lives of its citizens…
Just before I get down to business, I know that all environmentalists will be saddened that a former member of the group, Patrick Moore, allegedly got stiffed by a client…
The revelation by the Sun and the Province that a scientist in DFO, Dr. Kristi Miller, has been muzzled by the DFO and the Privy Council (which supports the Prime…
Sometimes the magnitude of the environmental challenges facing us today seems overwhelming. So we traditionally examine the larger problem in fragmented details. We isolate one part of a huge complexity…
