Two of the province’s surprisingly few gas workers – in BC’s Horn River Basin (Photo: Damien Gillis) By Norman Farrell Regular readers are aware that British Columbia’s natural gas industry…
An independent panel commissioned by the government of Nova Scotia to examine the impact of hydraulic fracturing has concluded that Nova Scotia is not read for fracking. The post Nova…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Amanda Connelly reports on the Alberta Federation of Labour’s latest revelations as to how the temporary foreign worker program has been used to…
Here, on the need to take downside risks into account in discussing industrial development – especially when our water, land and lives are at stake. For further reading…– The CP…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Several months back Cowichan Conversations contributor Don Maroc posted this story about potential LNG fracking on the island. Stories in Nanaimo media point to an ambitious future…
A storage pond in northeast BC containing fracking fluids (Image: Two Island Films) Republished with permission from desmog.ca Although city officials from Dawson’s Creek won’t disclose the names of the…
A fracking drill near Dawson Creek in northeast BC (courtesy of Two Island Films) Read this July 24 Globe and Mail story by Andrea Woo on a new study which…
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Pierre Beaulne discusses the inequality-related problems and solutions brought into the spotlight by Thomas Piketty, and notes that they can’t simply be swept…
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Paul Krugman calls out the U.S.’ deficit scolds for continuing to invent a crisis to distract from the real problems with middling growth…
BC Premier Christy Clark touts “world-class” safety for fossil fuel projects (Canadian Press) Many times I have referred to Premier Clark’s demand that Enbridge and others have “world-class” cleanup processes…
By Seth Borenstein, The Associated Press WASHINGTON – In Pennsylvania’s gas drilling boom, newer and unconventional wells leak far more often than older and traditional ones, according to a study…
The New York Court of Appeals has ruled that local communities have the right to ban the environmentally-harmful practice of fracking by oil and gas companies. The post Court Upholds…
Watch this video from last week’s “BC LNG: Cold Gas, Hot Air” presentation and discussion in Squamish – where the proposed Woodfibre project is currently in a public comment period.…
The catastrophic explosion in Lac-Mégantic of a shale oil train brought the product’s volatility to the fore Read this June 24 story from the Wall Street Journal on the volatility…
I believe it does. Are Oklahoma Earthquakes Tied to Fracking? Answer is yes. But gas/oil companies won’t admit it. Please watch the video here.
3.0-plus magnitude earthquakes in the midcontinental US. USGS By Emily Schmall And Kristi Eaton, The Associated Press AZLE, Texas – Earthquakes used to be almost unheard of on the vast…
Despite all the assurances by BC Premier Christy Clark that LNG is “the cleanest fossil fuel on the planet”, the evidence paints a very different picture. Check out this June…
Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard is putting green jobs on the back burner (Photo: facebook) One thing Stephen Harper, Justin Trudeau, BC Premier Christy Clark and new Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard…
The Council of the Haida Nation (CHN) is vowing to support The Fort Nelson First Nation’s tough stand on proposed Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) development and the 600% increase in…
Abandoned gas wells like this one can continue leaking methane for years (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) Read this June 5 story by Andrew Nikiforuk in The Tyee on a new report…
