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July 2007: The Growing American Thirst
NAFTA, SPP, and Super-Corridors threaten our water Canadian activists, who see themselves as stewards of the country´s abundant water resources, have been concerned since NAFTA…
Wood Waste and Log Exports on the BC Coast
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Vicious downward spiral sees more coastal logs exported or left on ground to rot
Study reveals need for government action CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) Numerous opportunities to generate jobs from coastal forests are routinely squandered…
Trees and Jobs Wasted in Rush to Beat Beetle, Study Warns
Jointly issued by: BC Federation of Labour; BC Government and Service Employees’ Union; Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives BC Office; Communications Energy & Paperworkers Union…
Over-cutting and Waste in BC’s Interior
A Call to Rethink BC’s Pine Beetle Logging Strategy Download 747.47 KB36 pages
A tree too far
Cookie-cutter responses to big problems have a way ofbackfiring, with the cure often proving worse than the disease. Theresponse to the mountain pine beetle attack…
June 2007: The Wrong “Solution” To Pollution
Nuclear power won’t clean up the Alberta tar sands The very biggest environmental issue in Canada is the Alberta oil sands project. Though only partially…
The problem is oil company gouging, not higher prices
In the many conversations I’ve had about gasoline prices since a short report I wrote for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives was released in…
April 2007: Action Needed, Not Rhetoric
George Perkins Marsh, in his 1864 book Man and Nature, warned a world even then dominated by business that “We are breaking up the floor…
February 2007: B.C. Can’t Afford To Burn Coal
Coal-fired power not nearly as cheap as it’s purported to be Controversy has erupted in British Columbia over the Campbell government’s claim that the province…
Securing a Sustainable Future for BC’s Forest Communities
Speech to the Stand Up for the North Conference Download 204.26 KB10 pages Excerpt: “Before talking a bit about where the opportunities lie to strengthen…
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