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Cedar LNG: Chronicles of a petro-state in the age of climate change
A final investment decision in June 2024 by Cedar LNG highlights the challenges and contradictions of BC’s climate and energy policies. For the BC government,…
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The Energy Action Framework and BC’s carbon crossroads revisited
Since first starting down the pathway of climate action in 2007, the BC government has both developed policies to reduce carbon emissions domestically while simultaneously…
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Raising emissions while pledging to lower them — British Columbia’s Orwellian LNG gambit
In 2007, then-BC premier Gordon Campbell passed the “Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets Act” committing BC to a 33 per cent reduction in emissions from 2007…
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Modernizing BC’s Oil and Gas Royalty Regime to Tackle Climate Change
In 2021, BC got a full serving of extreme weather events due to global warming. It is clear that the BC government must speed up…
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Can CleanBC reach its 2030 GHG target? A closer look at industrial emissions
In the wake of negotiations in Glasgow to push forward global climate action, it is clear that rich countries and jurisdictions like BC are not…
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LNG exports will doom BC’s emissions reduction goals
When the provincial government announced its CleanBC Roadmap to 2030 on Oct. 25, conspicuously absent was any mention of BC’s LNG export aspirations, which will…
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BC oil and gas royalty review seriously flawed without consideration of water
Open letter to the provincial government As prospects grow for intensified gas extraction in our province, we applaud the provincial government’s decision to review British…
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Priming the pump
Scientist warns cumulative effect of thousands of fracked gas wells means powerful earthquakes ahead for northeast BC Massive amounts of water pumped with brute force…
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Fracking in BC’s northeast
Last summer I got out of Vancouver and toured northern BC. While the trip was mostly for pleasure, my inner economist could not resist some…
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It’s 2021: Time to get serious about BC’s carbon emissions
In December 2020, the BC government released its first Climate Change Accountability Report, the result of 2019 legislation aimed at improving the reporting and oversight…
Why now is the time to reform BC’s oil and gas royalties
The oil and gas royalty regime in British Columbia needs a major overhaul. The re-elected NDP promised during the election campaign to review oil and…
BC LNG: Economic bonanza or environmental and economic nightmare?
Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) has been embraced by British Columbia’s government as a budding engine of growth for the provincial economy. Claims by industry lobby…