The latest cartoon from Gerry Hummel - referencing the Joint Panel Review for the hugely controversial proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline. Rules defining public participation were recently announced by the…
I urge everyone to get a copy of the Vancouver Province for July 10 and read, in the A section, pp 8 and 9, a story about shark fins. It’s…
Our human history has been a long process of taking greater control of the circumstances that affect us. Our early shelters and fires eased the inclemency of weather to make…
Vindication always feels good but as you read the Auditor-General’s report on the BC Environmental Assessment Office (BCEAO), which reports to the Ministry of Environment – it’s the governments licensing…
It doesn’t seem that big a deal when you first read the story on B2 of July 5’s Vancouver Sun under the heading ENBRIDGE,TRANSCANADA LEAKS DOMINATE SAFETY BOARD CASES. It…
Was the Gordon Campbell government corrupt? Does it matter? The answer to both questions is a resounding YES! For the purposes of this article I define corruption as “acting against…
A number of citizens and organizations - including the BC Public Interest Advocacy Centre and the Clean Energy Foundation - gathered recently in Vancouver at the headquarters of BC Hydro…
Now that the 2011 winner of Lord Stanley's Cup has been decided, the mania is subsiding, and Vancouver is beginning the arduous task of repairing the physical and psychological wreckage…
Last week a global oil emergency was declared and the response rolled out, but almost nobody noticed. The International Energy Agency (IEA) started tapping into member state’s emergency oil reserves,…
I sat in my hotel room in London on a recent vacation, reading the comments on my last article in thetyee.ca in which I had congratulated the Vancouver Sun for…
As the window for public comments draws to a close in the first stage of the environmental review process for the proposed Raven Underground Coal Mine, nearly 2,000 comments have…
There is a reason that we who want to save our environment are losing the war and may lose it outright unless we gird up our loins and fight to…
The strange behaviour of the sub-atomic world caused a few physicists to worry that we might be able to invent a particle collider powerful enough to generate a black hole…
There's nothing quite so pathetic as the richest industry in history feeling sorry for itself - and there's been a lot of that going on lately. Under the strain of…
Oh No! The port propaganda machine is back and here we go again with a barrage of falsehoods. Consultants are being paid megabucks to convince us that another expansion is…
Oh No! The port propaganda machine is back and here we go again with a barrage of falsehoods. Consultants are being paid megabucks to convince us that another expansion is…
Get MP3 (24 MB)Damien Gillis and CJSF's Latin Waves host Sylvia Richardson discuss the master plan to industrialize Delta - home to vital salmon, orca and bird habitat, and the…
Moral Ground is a book of environmental essays that contains a chillingly poignant one by Derrick Jensen, "You Choose", in which he has asked people a simple and fundamental question.…
At a recent event in Vancouver, biologist and Peace Valley Environment Association representative Diane Culling discussed the enormous consequences of the proposed Site C Dam - including the flooding of…
“GDP, the so-called measure of economic growth, does not separate costs from benefits.”-Herman Daly, World Bank Economist, author of “Steady State Economics.”In 2008, economists and scientists met in Paris to…
