Five year-old River Summer looks on at Brenot Creek landslide (Photo: Leigh Summer) A series of landslides above the northeast BC community of Hudson’s Hope has been dumping contaminated soils…
Read this Aug. 20 story by Elaine Anselmi in the Alaska Highway News on SFU’s baseline studies Rural residents in the Peace River area are being asked to put their…
The Liard River Basin is threatened by proposed fracking (Two Island Films) Read this Jan. 31 article from the Whitehorse Star on the risks and benefits of hydraulic fracturing of…
Fracking protest in New Brunswick (photo: Colin McPhail) It would be difficult to live without oil and gas. But it would be impossible to live without water. Yet, in our…
An earlier CNRL leak in Cold Lake, Alberta (Chester Dawson / Wall Street Journal) COLD LAKE, Alta. – The Alberta Energy Regulator is investigating another leak from a Canadian Natural…
Syncrude tailings pond (photo: David Dodge, Pembina Institute) EDMONTON – Oilsands producers are talking with the federal and Alberta governments about conditions under which water from the industry’s tailings ponds…
Vancouver-based environmental law firm ecojustice announced a lawsuit Wednesday in BC court against the province’s oil and gas regulator over its allegedly unlawful issuance of water permits for fracking. The…
Read this Nov. 8 story from EcoWatch on what is quite possibly Canada’s largest coal slurry spill, which happened in late October near Hinton, Alberta. A scary thing happened on…
Frack water pit in BC’s Horn River Basin (photo: Damien Gillis) By Anna Novacek – republished from Energy Law BC As the only province in Canada that does not regulate…
photo: Canadian Natural Resources Limited Read this Sept. 28 story from CBC on the ongoing Alberta bitumen leak crisis near Cold Lake. The Common Sense Canadian has been following the…
