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Green in a Different Sense
It is all about marketing I suppose, but I still can’t believe the proponents of the Highway 37 Northwest electric transmission line labelling it a…
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That sinking feeling: BC’s forests and CO2 emissions
As everyone knows, BC has a lot of trees. From a climate change perspective the nice thing about trees (forests, really) is that they suck…
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Out of the Closet on Site C
For years, successive BC governments have forbidden any new large-scale hydro dams. When I was on the BC Hydro Board of Directors in the mid-1990s,…
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Bike to Work Week and our transportation culture
Pouring rain marked the start of Vancouver’s Bike to Work Week (May 11 – 17) this year, but those who braved the weather conditions are…
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Planet Before Politics
I signed the following open letter published in the Globe on the weekend. I cannot take any credit for organizing or writing the letter (hat…
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Mischief making by oil and gas industry
Ben Parfitt and I submitted the following letter to the Vancouver Sun yesterday. Hopefully it will run in the next couple days. Here it is:…
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BC’s economy and the Liberal platform
With my oped last week on the NDP platform making me less than popular over at NDP HQ, today the Sun published my take on…
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To Tax or Not to Tax — That is Not the Question!
It was disappointing to read Mark Jaccard’s sensational, but grossly misleading forecast of massive job loss if the NDP eliminates the carbon tax. Sure, if…
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The NDP Platform and BC’s Economic Challenges
Below is an oped of mine that was done at the request of the Vancouver Sun and that ran in today’s paper. Unfortunately, for reasons…
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Green Gods Abandoned by Godless Socialists?
So Keith Baldrey thinks the NDP has sold its environmental soul by opposing so-called green run-of-river IPPs. And Mark Jaccard , Tzepora Berman and friends…
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How green are BC’s climate policies?
One of the most striking contradictions in BC’s climate action plan is the oil and gas industry. Greg Amos in The Hook, quotes our “green”…
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BC’s Carbon Tax Clash
With the BC election campaign now officially on, the carbon tax debate is back. Since the fall’s federal election, when the Prime Minister dropped in…
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