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  • The interior of one of two diversion tunnels drilled through shale rock at the Site C construction project. Credit: <a href="https://www.sitecproject.com/construction-activities/photo-and-video-gallery">BC Hydro Dam site gallery (2019) slide 10/150</a>.” style=”border-radius:0px;–objectFit:cover;–imagePosX:50%;–imagePosY:50%” decoding=”async” loading=”lazy” srcset=”https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_august2020_site-c-tunnel.jpg 900w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_august2020_site-c-tunnel-300×133.jpg 300w, https://www.policyalternatives.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/pn_august2020_site-c-tunnel-768×341.jpg 768w” sizes=”auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px” /></a><div  class=

    A Big Fracking Mess: As Site C dam construction bogs down in geotechnical problems, thousands of earthquakes triggered by fracking operations occur nearby

    Earthquakes triggered by natural gas industry fracking operations near BC Hydro’s troubled Site C dam construction project are far greater in number than previously thought,…

  • Photo: © Garth Lenz

    After the rush: Fort Nelson needs firm government commitments to reclaim lands abandoned by fossil fuel industry

    In the face of the economic fallout from COVID-19, it’s easy to forget that some communities in British Columbia were in deep fiscal distress long…

  • Jason Hargrove via Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/salty_soul/

    Coastal GasLink connects bad economics with terrible climate policy while trampling on Indigenous rights

    Protests around BC and the rest of the country have put Indigenous issues front and centre in discussions of Canadian politics and energy policy. Approved…

  • The WAC Bennett dam impounds the world’s seventh-largest reservoir. In 2012 a BC Hydro employee speculated a fracking operation may have caused a sudden change in the reservoir’s water levels. Photo: Jayce Hawkins.

    Peace River Frack-Up

    Part 1 of a report on how fracking poses risks to BC Hydro’s Peace River dams Read Part 2 of the report View timeline BC…

  • A natural gas industry disposal well operation near BC's Hydro's Peace Canyon Dam. BC Hydro fears any re-sumption of pumping operations at the well site could trigger an earthquake with potentially devastating conse-quences for the dam and the safety of people living downstream. Photo © Garth Lenz.

    The Well from Hell

    Part 2 of a report on how fracking poses risks to BC Hydro’s Peace River Dams Read Part 1 of the report View timeline BC…

  • An electrifying announcement leads to more questions than answers

    In late August, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau traveled to Vancouver to announce that the federal government had agreed to financially support a new hydroelectric transmission…

  • The time to act is now: Fracking risks do not require further study

    When British Columbia’s new government took office in July 2017, one thing was notably absent in the mandate letter delivered by Premier John Horgan to…

  • How much is BC giving to natural gas companies?

    All British Columbians have a stake in the pricing of natural resources. When trees are logged, when minerals are mined, when fossil fuels are drilled,…

  • Image: Douglas Reyes-Ceron / Flickr

    LNG’s big lie

    The federal government is seeking to use a clause in the Paris Agreement on climate change to get emissions credits for exports of liquefied natural…

  • BC’s LNG tax breaks and subsidies offside with the need for climate action

    The BC government’s new fiscal framework for LNG is fundamentally at odds with the province’s CleanBC climate plan. Details in the government agreement with LNG…

  • Memo to northeast BC: More fracking earthquakes ahead

    Of the many “unknowns” flagged in a recent science panel report, few are as disturbing as the finding that no one can say how destructive…

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