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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.…
BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends
Winter 2013, Volume 16, Number 1 Download 1.06 MB8 pages Inside this issue: British Columbians are ready for a thoughtful conversation about taxes by Shannon Daub,…
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…
From Stream to Steam
Emerging Challenges for BC’s Interlinked Water and Energy Resources Attachments From Stream to Steam: SUMMARY
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…
Fast and Loose with Tordon herbicide on the move
Our family business includes growing bedding plants. In the spring of 2010 every tomato, pepper and marigold we started curled up grotesquely and died. After…
A Tale of Two Petro-States (Part I of III)
Norway manages its oil wealth much better than Canada does Petroleum is a resource unlike any other. It is the world’s most strategically important and…
BC’s Natural Gas Strategy is bad economics and bad for the climate
BC’s quest to substantially boost natural gas development seems like a real winner at first glance: heaps of new jobs in the Liquified Natural Gas…
BC’s Legislated Greenhouse Gas Targets vs Natural Gas Development
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly Download 593.1 KB12 pages
The Oil Industry’s Dilbit Cover-Up
Tar sands bitumen spills harder and costlier to clean up It’s amazing to watch the lengths to which Enbridge and the oil industry will go…
BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends
Fall 2012, Volume 15, Number 3 Download 1.13 MB8 pages Inside this issue: Better seniors care a solution to overcrowded hospitals and surgery wait times…
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