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Canada’s Carbon Liabilities
The Implications of Stranded Fossil Fuel Assets for Financial Markets and Pension Funds Download 1.57 MB 58 pages This study looks at the implications of…
The Bitumen Cliff
Lessons and Challenges of Bitumen Mega-Developments for Canada’s Economy in an Age of Climate Change Download 2.51 MB102 pages The failure to carefully regulate the…
BC in 2040: A Story by Marc Lee
BYB#3_BC in 2040: A Story by Marc Lee
Industry gets credits, schoolyards get stumps
Picture a savvy land developer who has just purchased 1,000 acres of forestland on a city’s outskirts. He plans to cut most of the trees…
Don’t Frack the Law!
The Enbridge pipeline isn’t BC’s only major environmental threat. Find out how the provincial Natural Gas Strategy (including fracking) makes it impossible for us to…
Thinking the Apocalyptic Unthinkable
Oil-dependent “civilization” faces collapse before mid-century Whether our “civilization” will survive this century is now — or should be — the main concern of everyone.…
The Petro-Path Not Taken
Comparing Norway with Canada and Alberta’s Management of Petroleum Wealth Download 1.79 MB 80 pages This report compares the Canada and Alberta experience of managing oil…
Canada vs. Norway: The Petro Path Not Taken
Momentum is building across Canada on the need to develop a sustainable national energy strategy. On this front, Canada and Alberta, its main petro-province, has…
What’s next for BC’s carbon tax?
Climate change forced its way onto the political agenda in 2012, as Hurricane Sandy ripped through the northeast United Stages just days before the election.…
Getting the fracking facts
Natural gas is not and never has been a clean fuel. Yet almost daily, industry and government alike assert that it is a vitally important…
Depleting natural gas reserves makes no sense for BC
British Columbia is no petro state. So why do our political leaders insist that we are a global energy power? At the University of Calgary…
BC must get serious about its water supply
In 2010 BC’s South Peace Region, downstream from the massive W.A.C. Bennett Dam, was so arid that the province ordered natural gas companies to temporarily…
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