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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…
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Lessons from the Squamish Nation’s ambitious new rental housing plan
As we face a severe housing crisis in Vancouver, the Squamish Nation is poised to add 6,000 new homes—mostly market rental housing—to its 11 acre…
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Elevating Indigenous women’s voices is critical to addressing gendered colonial violence
These are the voices of Indigenous women survivors documented in a powerful new report, Red women rising: Indigenous women survivors in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The…
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Through the front door, then the back: How government methodically killed environmental oversight of major gas industry projects
Few regulations in British Columbia have died as quick and ignoble a death as a 2014 Order in Council exempting proposed natural gas plants from…
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Designated Indigenous seats: A possibility for political inclusion?
As the Federal Court of Appeal’s quashing of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion (TMX) showcases, a wide chasm remains between the federal government’s platitudes of…
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What’s Kinder Morgan’s real end game?
Here’s a different take on Kinder Morgan’s ultimatum and the so-called “constitutional crisis” it has sparked. I’m speculating, of course, as we all seek to…
Easy Water: Time bombs, fracking dams and the rush for H2O on private farmlands
The number of unlicensed and potentially dangerous dams built in recent years in northeast British Columbia is nearly double what has been reported, according to…
T’Sou-ke First Nation: Building a network of clean energy systems
A First Nation cannot survive without a healthy environment. If we take care of the environment, the environment will take care of us. Offsetting fossil…
Site C’s economic justifications unconvincing: It’s time we made decisions differently
There is no question that the new BC government’s decision to proceed with the Site C dam was a very difficult one. The previous government…
Numerous unlicensed dams found structurally unsound; remediation orders issued
More than half of nearly 50 dams that fossil fuel companies built in recent years without first obtaining the proper permits had serious structural problems…
Drain it: Petronas subsidiary ordered to take action at two controversial fracking dams
The provincial government has ordered Progress Energy to drain virtually all of the water trapped behind two massive dams that the company built in violation…
BC First Nations are poised to lead the renewable energy transition
These are exciting times in British Columbia for those interested in building sustainable, just and climate-friendly energy systems. The recent change in government could mean…