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Marc Lee
Marc Lee is a Senior Economist at the CCPA’s BC Office. In addition to tracking federal and provincial budgets and economic trends, Marc has published on a range of topics from poverty and inequality to globalization and international trade to public services and regulation. Marc is Co-Director of the Climate Justice Project, a research partnership with UBC’s School of Community and Regional Planning that examines the links between climate change policies and social justice. Follow Marc on Twitter
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About that LNG Prosperity Fund
Budget 2014 contains some new information about how the province intends to pay for all of the ponies BC children have been promised from LNG…
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BC’s Big Favour?
The hype on LNG has grown to staggering proportions. I have not had much time to debunk all of the government’s grotesque exaggerations and outright…
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BC’s Big Favour?
The hype on LNG has grown to staggering proportions. I have not had much time to debunk all of the government’s grotesque exaggerations and outright…
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Burning issues for Metro Vancouver
The front page story of today’s Vancouver Sun takes on Metro Vancouver’s waste incineration facility in Burnaby. The Fraser Valley Regional District has been strongly…
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With Victoria’s commitment to develop a global LNG industry, should BC revise its greenhouse gas reduction targets?
BC stands at a carbon crossroads: developing a multi-billion-dollar liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry would make it impossible to obey BC’s 2007 law on greenhouse…
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A Loud Wake-Up Call
Global carbon report is a strong reality check for Canada The recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) should be a wake-up…
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Annotated Pacific Coast Action Plan on Climate and Energy
BC recently signed on to a new Pacific Coast Action Plan on Climate and Energy, which includes California, Oregon and Washington states. On the surface…
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Global carbon budget is a harsh reality check for Canadian investors
The recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) should be a wake-up call for Canada. With a development model based on ever…
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LNG: BC’s Quest for a New Staple Industry
I have a post as part of a new series from the Progressive Economics Forum celebrating 50 years of Mel Watkins’ publication of “A Staple…
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Metro Vancouver needs to walk its “zero waste” talk
When delegates attend Metro Vancouver’s Zero Waste conference on Wednesday, they will hear from innovators and big thinkers about how to radically redesign waste out…
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Why the City of Vancouver should divest from fossil fuels
This is the text of remarks I made today to Vancouver city council on divestment. Earlier this year, Council requested that staff report back on…
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Will LNG development blow BC’s carbon budget?
Last week’s report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reaffirmed the scientific consensus that global warming is happening and is primarily caused by human…
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