British Columbia

08/02/25
Author: 
Stefan Labbé
Early data suggests Canadian crude exports are benefiting from new pipeline capacity. But a recent $20-billion loan has raised new questions over the pipeline's final costs.Trans Mountain

Jan. 31, 2025

The Canadian government has approved a new $20-billion loan to finance the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline two years after the government said it would not provide further money for the project.

The loan to the pipeline project, known as TMX, was provided through Export Development Canada’s Canada Account, which supports transactions when the Crown corporation is unable to back a project because of a combination of financial and market risks.

08/02/25
Author: 
Shannon Waters
The LNG Canada facility in Kitimat, B.C., will be the most emissions-intensive LNG project in the province and stands to reap the biggest benefits from a two-year grace period on paying for carbon emissions. Photo: Marty Clemens / The Narwhal

Feb. 5, 2025

B.C.’s new industrial carbon pricing system gives big emitters a break on paying for emissions. That includes most new LNG export projects

When LNG Canada becomes fully operational this year, the liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility in Kitimat, B.C., will be one of the largest sources of emissions in the province — but it likely won’t pay a cent for its carbon pollution for two full years. 

08/02/25
Author: 
Laurie Adkin
When U.S. President Donald Trump says Americans do not need Canada’s oil and gas, I say, “all the better for us.” Photo by Shutterstock

Feb. 5, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to place tariffs on “Canadian” oil and gas exports and poof! The climate crisis has disappeared from the political radar of Canadian politicians. Could we not try, for a minute, to keep our heads about us and remember the bigger threat that is poised to swallow us all up?

05/02/25
Author: 
Amanda Follett Hosgood
An FOI request made by The Tyee uncovered more than 100 pages of emails discussing a response to our media request about BC’s secretive plan to tighten protest response. Government emails obtained via FOI. Photo by Amanda Follett Hosgood.

Feb. 4, 2025

The Tyee’s questions to government sparked dozens of internal emails, now revealed via FOI.

01/02/25
Author: 
Kai Nagata
Eby and Trump

Jan. 30, 2025

Clean energy offers peace, prosperity and political sanity. Oil companies plan to steal it.

British Columbia faces an urgent choice: renewable power or LNG? Our government claims we can have both.

But the absurd reality is that British Columbians are paying billions to build new electrical infrastructure — namely the Site C dam and North Coast Transmission Line — for the benefit of foreign oil and gas companies.

29/01/25
Author: 
Ben Parfitt
Richard Kabzems and Sandra Burton stand outside their home a short distance from a gas well pad where they fear fracking operations could trigger damaging and potentially deadly earthquakes. Photo by The Tyee.

Jan. 28, 2025

Residents of northeastern BC have been left unprotected in the LNG drilling boom.

29/01/25
Author: 
Michael Clague, Libby Davies, Terry Hunter, Donald MacPherson, Jean Swanson and Savannah Walling
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim’s plan to halt new social housing will condemn more people to live on the streets. Photo for The Tyee by Jen St. Denis.

Jan. 29, 2025

A plan to halt housing solutions will hurt people, businesses and the city.

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