British Columbia

02/11/16
Author: 
Seble Samuel
Silent protesters disrupt a Nov. 1 speech by Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna in Ottawa, urging the federal government to reject a west coast crude oil pipeline expansion project. Photo by Mike De Souza.

We were said to have left behind the relics of a decade of environmentally gutted Conservative leadership. That scrapped environmental legislation, heavy collusion between politicians and the fossil fuel industry, diluting credibility of Canada's National Energy Board (NEB), and murky masses of fossil fuel subsidies were remnants of the past. Instead, the Liberal era would be one of climate hope, of revamped environmental assessments, tossed pipeline proposals, fossil fuel subsidy phase-outs, and renewable energy landscapes.

02/11/16
Author: 
Concerned Professional Engineers

Please view Concerned Professional Engineer’s (CPE) 2 minute animation regarding the possibility of tanker collisions with Vancouver’s Second Narrows Bridges.

 

01/11/16
Author: 
Charles Komanoff

[Webpage editor: The author below is not happy with a recent negative report (see here) about BC's carbon tax. A proposed carbon tax in neighbouring Washington has divided environmentalists in that state.

01/11/16
Author: 
David P. Ball
Construction continues on the Site C Clean Energy Project, pictured here in July, an estimated $9-billion hydroelectric dam that BC Hydro says will provide enough electricity to power 450,000 homes and provide years of employment until its completion in 2024.

A judge has dealt a blow to two northern British Columbia First Nations who hoped to challenge the province’s approval of the $9-billion Site C dam.

West Moberly First Nations and Prophet River First Nation have launched several challenges in both provincial and federal courts against a project that would flood nearly 10,000 hectares of their traditional territories. Both argued the province failed to consult them as required.

01/11/16
Author: 
Brent Patterson
TransCanada CEO Russ Girling.

November 1

The Trudeau government has approved the expansion of a TransCanada fracked gas pipeline.

Reuters reports, "The Canadian government on Monday approved the $1.3 billion expansion of a natural gas gathering pipeline in western Canada belonging to a wholly owned subsidiary of TransCanada Corp, with 36 conditions attached. ...The current NOVA Gas Transmission Ltd (NGTL) System is a 23,500-km pipeline that gathers natural gas from the fast-growing Montney and Duvernay shale plays in northern Alberta and north-eastern British Columbia."

31/10/16
Author: 
Mark Hume
The Heiltsuk Nation, which relies on beaches near the tug accident site, has called the situation a disaster. (April Bencze/Heiltsuk Nation)

Crews fighting to contain fuel leaking from a sunken tug near Bella Bella, B.C., have had to deal with just the kind of conditions predicted in a spill response analysis filed with the National Energy Board in the Trans Mountain pipeline hearings.

That analysis warned that if an oil spill occurred on the West Coast during winter months, high winds, turbulent seas and delays in response time could combine to make it impossible for crews to recover more than 15 per cent of spilled oil.

31/10/16
Author: 
First Nations Leaders

85 FIRST NATIONS AND TRIBES CONDEMN ENBRIDGE’S ROLE IN THE VIOLATIONS AT STANDING ROCK AND CALL ON TRUDEAU TO SPEAK OUT

For Immediate Release

28/10/16
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Dogwood Initiative Today at Bella Bella’s only grocery store, a jug of milk costs $7.10 (and expires in a few days). A package of frozen chicken drumsticks goes for $11.89 and a Christmas ham is $75.00. Shampoo, tampons and fresh produce, when available,
Dogwood Initiative
28/10/16

Our planet’s climate crisis is intensifying, but many in industry, government and even the advocacy community have turned to market mechanisms to alleviate climate change instead of regulating the pollutants that cause it. These free-market approaches rely on putting a “price” on climate change-inducing emissions — such as imposing taxes on carbon — as an indirect method to reduce these pollutants.

27/10/16
Author: 
First Nations Leaders

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Canadian Courts Asked to Block Approval of Massive Petronas LNG project

First Nations and environmentalists rally against “wrong project in the wrong place”

VANCOUVER, CANADA – Oct. 27, 2016 – First Nations and environmentalists from northwest B.C. launched multiple federal court actions today aimed at stopping construction of a “dangerous and ill-conceived” $11.4-billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) project at the mouth of the Skeena River.

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