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Oil sands ‘Big Five’ making billions despite oil price crash and pipeline delays, new report shows
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT EDMONTON – As debate continues to rage over pipelines and the current price differential for Alberta’s oil, a…
Canada’s fossil-fuel sector controlled by a few major players—including the five big banks, new study shows
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER – The major investors in Canada’s fossil-fuel sector have high stakes in maintaining business as usual rather than addressing…
Who Owns Canada’s Fossil-Fuel Sector?
Mapping the network of ownership and control Download 1.43 MB48 pages This study shows that substantial ownership and strategic control over Canada’s fossil-fuel sector are…
Who Owns and Benefits from Canada’s Fossil-Fuel Sector?
Many Canadians – politicians and business people in particular – are quick to tout the value of the fossil-fuel sector to our national economy. But…
BC Solutions: News and commentary from the CCPA’s BC Office
September 2018 Download 3.37 MB12 pages In this issue: Time to change our electoral system Deep poverty: The BC government can and should end it…
Building a Stronger Foundation of Basic Workplace Rights for BC Workers
CCPA-BC Response to the BC Law Institute Consultation Paper on the Employment Standards Act Download 1.54 MB 21 pages The CCPA-BC has a long track…
Tailings dam spills at Mount Polley and Mariana
Chronicles of disasters foretold Download 7.07 MB64 pages This paper explores the many parallels between the tailings dam spills at the Mount Polley mine in…
Image: What do the two largest mining disasters in Canada’s and Brazil’s histories have in common?
The Mount Polley disaster took place in August 2014, when the dam holding toxic waste from the copper and gold mine collapsed, creating the largest…
Mount Polley four years after the tailings dam breach: business as usual
“If you asked me two weeks ago if this could have happened, I would have said it couldn’t.” Imperial Metals president Brian Kynoch, spoke these…
Report on Mount Polley and Brazil tailings spills points to systemic problems with mining industry
Major issues remain unresolved four years after catastrophic Mount Polley dam failure READ THE FULL REPORT HERE VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s Mount Polley mining disaster…
Submission to BC government and Climate Solutions and Clean Growth Advisory Council
Download 320.15 KB11 pages In its first year in power, the new BC government has increased the BC carbon tax and improved the carbon credit,…
CCPA-BC Presentation to the Scientific Hydraulic Fracturing Review Panel
Download 1.47 MB 10 pages At the end of June 2018, CCPA-BC Resource Policy Analyst Ben Parfitt was asked to make a presentation to the…
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