Video: Vancouver Musician Takes on Kinder Morgan Pipeline, Tankers
Check out this new song and music video from Vancouver artist CR Avery, produced by the Sierra Club of BC. According to the organization, which released the video on its…
Common Sense Journalism
Enbridge Review Panel’s Skimpy Insurance Requirements Fail to Reassure Public
The news out of the Joint Review Panel looking into the Enbridge pipeline should have a profound effect on us all. One of the conditions is a requirement that Enbridge…
RBC CEO’s Open Letter Shows Foreign Worker Issue Touching Nerve with Canadians
An open letter issued to Canadians by Royal Bank of Canada President and CEO Gord Nixon (read here) apologizing for his company’s decision to shift 45 Canadian jobs to imported…
Ten Oil Spills in Two Weeks
Last week I published a story titled “Five Oil Spills in One Week: ‘Accidents’ or Business as Usual”. Within an hour of publication came the news of a sixth spill…
Logging BC’s Coastal Treasures
Exasperation is the tone of the full page ad placed in a March edition of Victoria’s Times-Colonist newspaper by the Discovery Islands Marine Tourism Group, a coalition of businesses associated…
First Nation Taking on Canada-China Trade Deal Needs Your Help
A legal challenge by a BC First Nation may hold the last, best hope in the battle to protect Canada’s resources, environment and democracy from the Canada-China trade deal, known…
Rafe Mair: What I Want from Next BC Government
I was recently asked by a reader what it is I want, presumably in the way of government. I want a government committed to the preservation of farmland – not…
Video: Eco-Footprint Founder Dr. Bill Rees on Resources, the 7 Billion and You
With human population exploding and demand for resources fast outstripping supply, Dr. Bill Rees, founder of the “eco-footprint” concept, calls for “a new cultural narrative that shifts the values of…
Salmon Confidential
Anyone who has been following the sorry saga of inexplicable diseases and unusual mortality in BC’s wild salmon will not be surprised that the information in Twyla Roscovich’s documentary, Salmon…
Historic Outpouring of Public Opposition to Site C Dam
Yesterday, I joined several thousand British Columbians in submitting my comments to the environmental assessment process for the proposed Site C Dam in northeast BC. While it will likely take…
Five Oil Spills in One Week: ‘Accidents’ or Business as Ususal?
What do ExxonMobil, Enbridge, Suncor, CP Rail and a Michigan Utility have in common? They’ve all spilled oil within the past week. This latest round of disasters should give Canadian…
All Candidates Dialogue Wednesday Promises "Real Talk on Climate Change"
An all candidates dialogue this Wednesday evening at the Rio Theatre in Vancouver – featuring representatives from four different political parties and one independent candidate vying for office in the…
Site C Dam: A $10 Billion Taxpayer Subsidy for LNG, Fracking
Premier Christy Clark wants BC citizens to subsidize the oil and gas industry with a $10 Billion taxpayer-funded dam. Though she won’t put it quite like that, that’s precisely the…
Premier Wants British Columbians to Subsidize Gas Industry with Taxpayer-funded Hydro Dam
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HST and Pipelines: The Elephant in the Cabinet Room
There is an elephant in the cabinet room and it can only be dealt with if the occupiers of that room don’t oppose any of the proposed pipelines to run…
The Bitumen Cliff
The so-called “bitumen bubble”, the hollowing out of Alberta’s oil prices, has left the seemingly wealthy province with a staggering budget deficit of billions. With an economy now mostly dependent…
Mother Nature, US Govt Chase Shell Out of Arctic
Shell Oil, the first energy company granted coveted Arctic drilling permits by the US Government, is shutting down operations for all of 2013, nearly as quickly as they began. Shell’s…
Oil Pipeline, Tanker Spills not a ‘Risk’ but a Certainty
I’ve got to say it, Premier: you don’t know a damned thing about pipelines and tankers. Do you not understand that the rupture of a pipeline or “accident” with a…
Paul Simon Lends Song to Coastal First Nations’ Anti-Tanker Video
A new 2-min video produced by Coastal First Nations – a group representing nine different aboriginal communities on BC’s north and central coast – is underscored by the famous Simon…
BC’s Fossil Fuel Folly
People who are concerned about global climate change are watching the steep rise of global carbon dioxide emissions. While a few nations have been heroic in their efforts to cut…