Private power producer AXOR, under subsidiary Purcell Green Power, planned to dam and divert Glacier and Howser Creeks in the Purcell Wilderness in the Kootenays, along with two other nearby…
Vancouver-based Gen Why Media and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives are co-hosting an “intergenerational dialogue” in Vancouver on Tuesday, December 11 to explore various existing and proposed energy projects…
The Campbell/Clark government is corrupt and there are a number of the reasons I say this – from BC Rail and the HST to private power contracts, deceitful budgets and,…
Damien Gillis appeared recently on Nanaimo's CHLY Radio to discuss a number of key political and energy issues in Canada. Gillis and host Rae Kornberger of 'A Sense of Justice'…
According to Professor Michael Hudson, an economist and finance expert profiled in the documentary "Surviving Progress", “Every society for the last 4,000 years has found that its debt grows more…
The federal agency embroiled in the recent XL Meats tainted beef scandal is at it again - this time leading efforts to cover up a potentially catastrophic farmed salmon flu-like…
A comprehensive investigation of the connection between mineral licks vital to moose populations in northeast BC and the growing shale gas industry, whose impacts on water are the subject of…
The Jumbo Ski Resort planned for the Purcell Mountains has been approved by the provincial government, which has put in place legislation for the area to become a municipality. The…
For people who like words, “apocaholics” is a new and ingenious one. It instantly conveys the impression that those with a dystopian view of the future have a neurotic compulsion…
In a move that could cost him significant political support, federal NDP leader Thomas Mulcair has endorsed controversial west-to-east pipeline proposals that would move tar sands crude from Alberta through…
Watch these staggering timelapse animations of recent water withdrawals and industrial activity on the traditional territory of Fort Nelson First Nation for natural gas hydraulic fracturing. These short term licenses…
After three years of evidence, study and writing, Justice Bruce Cohen has finally submitted his $26 million Report on the disappearance of the Fraser River sockeye salmon. Despite being written…
No sooner had the news been out that the US was looking to be self-sufficient in energy than the bottom feeders rose as one to tell us this means we…
Not long after the Defend Our Coast rallies, a pollster phones, wanting to know whom I plan to vote for in the provincial election. The first party to unequivocally say…
When a clock strikes 13, you can never trust it again. So it must be for anyone who lies about information he is using to back up a serious scientific…
On Oct 30, the Board of Change hosted a debate in Vancouver on American energy pipeline giant Kinder Morgan's plans to turn Vancouver into a shipping port to access new…
The Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival is hosting a multi-media discussion of "Canada's Carbon Corridor" this week at North Vancouver's Centennial Theatre. The event's title refers to the interconnected web…
Damien Gillis and SFU Radio's Sylvia Richardson discuss a wide range of energy topics - from the impact of Barack Obama's recent presidential victory on North American climate and energy…
Leaders of Fort Nelson First Nation from northeast BC are coming to Vancouver to share their concerns over 20 new long-term water withdrawal licenses the BC Liberal Government is considering…
We have been overwhelmed with your support for the Common Sense Canadian's effort to prevent the ratification of FIPA and want to extend our thanks to the many readers who…
