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Is Canada taking a fossilized approach to energy in new NAFTA?
Prime Minister Trudeau accepts an award for his energy and environment policies at the 2017 CERAWeek energy industry conference in Houston, Texas (Global News screen…
The Monitor, March/April 2018
Cannabis Capitalism Download 5.2 MB Canada is only months away from legalizing and regulating the production, sale and use of cannabis for medicinal and recreational…
Western Canada needs real climate action, not disingenuous arguments
In Western Canada’s slow lurch towards sane climate and energy policy, two prominent arguments have been advanced for the continuation of business-as-usual for the fossil…
An evening with Winona LaDuke in Vancouver, BC (audio and slideshow)
Narrated slideshow Audio only On January 19, 2018, Winona LaDuke—an internationally renowned environmental activist working on issues of sustainable development and renewable energy—gave a public…
BC Solutions: News and commentary from the CCPA’s BC Office
January 2018 Download 3.23 MB12 pages In this issue: Fossil fuel industry accustomed to guarding the hen house, documents reveal Call for public inquiry into…
Suppressed report shows hundreds of BC’s fracked gas wells may leak methane, underscores need for public inquiry
VANCOUVER—BC’s Oil and Gas Commission withheld a report from the public for four years showing that 900 gas wells could be leaking methane—a finding that…
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…
The urgent need for a full Public Inquiry into fracking in BC
Group letter to John Horgan and Michelle Mungall Honourable John Horgan, BC Premier, and Honourable Michelle Mungall, BC Minister for Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources…
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…
Missing the Mark: Federal midterm report card
Download 11.72 MB 23 pages This report card reviews the federal government’s progress in 16 key policy areas at the halfway mark of their term.…
An environmental mess: BC government needs to bring gas industry and regulator under tighter control
Few environmental messes inherited by the new B.C. government rival the unregulated free-for-all that has unfolded in the province’s northeast where companies that frack for…
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…
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