Corporate Mapping Project Updates
Despite the formidable challenges ahead, Canada’s path to net-zero is achievable with a clear, actionable plan that recognizes the scale of the undertaking and the limitations of potential solutions...
February 8, 2024 |
BC Office As the impacts of the climate crisis intensify so do calls for concrete action. However, instead of reducing greenhouse gas emissions since signing the Paris Agreement in 2016, Canada has increased...
August 4, 2021 |
BC Office Net zero is an increasingly popular term used by governments and industry as a target for managing our emissions and meeting the urgency of the climate emergency. It may also be a dangerous...
June 16, 2021 |
BC Office The oil and gas sector alone will cause Canada to exceed its Paris Agreement target.
Going into the G7 Summit later this month, Canada and the US are the only G7 countries that have not reduced...
May 31, 2021 |
BC Office Not only have Canada’s “big five” banks continued to finance the fossil fuel sector since Canada committed to the Paris Agreement on climate change, their support of the industry has continued to...
April 28, 2021 |
BC Office New research from the Corporate Mapping Project looks at the promised economic and financial benefits of coal mining projects in northeastern British Columbia and concludes that the jobs, tax...
December 3, 2020 |
BC Office The assumptions underlying the federal government’s $12.6 billion commitment to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project (TMX) no longer stand up in 2020, according to this new report from...
October 22, 2020 |
BC Office The Site C dam is BC’s most expensive publicly funded infrastructure project but 30 years before starting to build it, BC Hydro knew there were big problems with its chosen location. Resource policy...
September 10, 2020 |
BC Office The BC government should immediately appoint an independent panel of geologists and engineers to assess the ongoing geotechnical problems at Site C and whether the unstable ground at the dam...
August 11, 2020 |
BC Office The industry and government narrative that BC LNG will contribute to a global emissions reduction by displacing coal-fired electricity in Asia is not accurate, and in fact the reverse is actually...
July 8, 2020 |
BC Office As debate continues to rage over pipelines for Alberta’s oil, this report analyzes how the oil sands industry, in the early years of the mature phase of its business lifecycle, is producing more...
March 10, 2020 |
If BC is to meet its emissions targets and not perpetuate the climate crisis, it must phase out its fossil fuel industries by mid-century, says a new report, Winding Down BC’s Fossil Fuel Industries...
March 2, 2020 |
BC Office After reviewing hundreds of documents, obtained through a Freedom of Information (FOI) request, which raise concerns that BC Hydro’s Peace Canyon Dam could fail in the aftermath of an earthquake...
January 9, 2020 |
BC Office Crude Lessons: Fossil Fuel Industry Influence on Environmental Education in Saskatchewan finds that it is the oil and gas industry that exerts an undue influence over how climate issues are taught in...
December 5, 2019 |
Saskatchewan Office How pension funds choose to invest has significant bearing on how we collectively address the climate emergency and the needed energy transition away from fossil fuels. This report asks if the Canada...
November 15, 2019 |
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