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Ben Parfitt
Log it and burn it
Download 7.27 MB 40 pages BC’s forests are in crisis. The sharp increase in wood pellet exports to Japan is fueling the loss of BC primary forests. The indicators of…
Captured
British Columbia’s Oil and Gas Commission and the case for reform Download 3.12 MB 40 pages This report reveals that from an early stage BC’s Oil and Gas Commission bore…
BC’s Oil and Gas Commission: a captured regulator
Industry demands trump public interest British Columbia’s Oil and Gas Commission bears many of the hallmarks of a captured regulator. Too often, the interests of the industry it regulates take…
CCPA-BC Presentation to the Scientific Hydraulic Fracturing Review Panel
Download 1.47 MB 10 pages At the end of June 2018, CCPA-BC Resource Policy Analyst Ben Parfitt was asked to make a presentation to the Province’s Scientific Hydraulic Fracturing Review…
British Columbians shortchanged billions from fossil fuel industry revenues
Earlier this year, Premier John Horgan announced that the British Columbia government was prepared to offer billions of dollars in tax breaks to Royal Dutch Shell should the global fossil…
Newly disclosed data shows need for inquiry into fracking
In May 2014, British Columbia’s then Minister of Natural Gas Development, Rich Coleman, came out swinging when a team of Canadian and American scientists issued a report saying that fossil…
BC needs a full public inquiry into fracking
Last year, more natural gas was produced in British Columbia than at any point in the past 10 years. That may come as a surprise to some people who thought…
Regarding Progress Energy’s exemption applications regarding its Lily and Town dams
Submission to BC’s Environmental Assessment Office Download 232.03 KB7 pages Resource Policy Analyst Ben Parfitt sent this letter to BC’s Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) in response to Progress Energy’s extraordinary…
The energy industry’s insatiable thirst for water threatens First Nations’ rights
In early May, evidence emerged that natural gas companies had built dozens of large dams during a poorly regulated building spree. As many as 60 large earthen structures were bulldozed…
Fracking, First Nations and Water
Respecting Indigenous rights and better protecting our shared resources Download 769.66 KB32 pages This paper looks at the growing concerns that First Nations in British Columbia have with the fossil…
A Dam Big Problem
Regulatory breakdown as fracking companies in BC’s northeast build dozens of unauthorized dams Download 1.38 MB10 pages A subsidiary of Malaysian state-owned Petronas, the company behind a massive Liquefied Natural…
The Great Log Export Drain
Download 128.35 KB9 pages This short two-part report shows that between 2013 and 2016, more raw logs were shipped from BC than during any other four-year period in the province’s…
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