“Push a complex system too far, and it will not come back.” — Joe Norman, founder and chief scientist at Applied Complexity Science
Last week, Mother Nature taught British Columbia another ugly lesson about the consequences of blah, blah, blah on climate change, unchecked energy use and globalization.
But denial is our society’s most politically powerful drug after fentanyl and Netflix.
Trans Mountain continues to monitor the impacts of a spill of clay-based drilling fluid in a water course near the Mary Hill bypass in Coquitlam last week.
In a statement, the company reported that approximately one cubic meter of bentonite was “inadvertently released” into a watercourse during horizontal directional drilling (HDD) procedures on Friday (Nov. 19).
The drilling is to install a section of pipe from Surrey to Coquitlam for the construction of the pipeline to Burnaby.
Romilly Cavanaugh stood at the edge of the Coquihalla River north of Hope, watching big trees snap off the bank like blades of grass in a lawn mower. Some of those not swept away held dead fish in their branches three metres off the ground — a reminder of what came before.
Cavanaugh and her fellow engineers had been sent into the chaos for a sole purpose: to watch the Trans Mountain pipeline through the flood of 1995.
Another Haisla Hereditary Chief/Matriarch speaking out. If you know the history of the allyships these nations have held for generations & the havoc CGL pipeline/governments have caused w divide & conquer tactics. Haisla are top investors in CGL but it’s all falling down…
As part of a series highlighting the work of young people in addressing the climate crisis, writer Patricia Lane interviews Gitxsan youth Shay Lynn Sampson who is doing her part to ensure the Coastal GasLink pipeline never gets built. She was among those arrested in Friday's RCMP raids.
