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And they all fall down: The day of reckoning in B.C.’s over-cut interior forests looms
For more than a quarter century, logging companies at the government’s blessing have been on a tear through British Columbia’s expansive interior forests. In the…
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Just who should be putting who under trusteeship?
I am the first to admit that, lamentably, I know very little about the problems that face First Nations people. That did not stop me…
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Time to give shale gas industry a closer look before we’re totally fracked
Despite the recent release by Canada’s natural gas industry of a set of guiding principles governing the controversial gas well “stimulation” method known as hydraulic…
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BC’s wood trade with China may be booming – but at a price
This year, members of the Lax Kw’alaams First Nation expect to fill the holds of nine ocean freighters in Prince Rupert with raw logs from…
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Public consultation down the drain as government comes to fracking industry’s aid
It has been a year since word began to percolate in the Hudson’s Hope area that Talisman Energy Inc. was eying the Williston Reservoir a…
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The Wild West? Come on! Put your emotions in check
The on-line newsmagazine, The Tyee, recently ran an opinion piece of mine under the headline “The Wild West and Dysfunctional BC Politics: Fracking and sour…
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The Wild West and dysfunctional B.C. politics
Anyone wanting to see just how dysfunctional politics in B.C. has become should check out Bob Simpson’s recent Private Members’ statement in the provincial legislature.…
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Oil and our coast – surely southern B.C. as important as The Great Bear
Like Mitch Anderson, in a must-read feature article in The Tyee, I am perplexed at the comparatively little attention that environmental organizations pay to the…
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About Fracking Time: BC’s Independent MLAs Call on Premier to Investigate Hydraulic Fracturing
As British Columbia Premier Christy Clark makes her debut in the provincial legislature this coming week, the media spotlight will likely be on the predictable…
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A Call to Action on the Forest Front
Does the provincial government have a coherent plan to address the exponentially deepening forest health crisis in our province? Evidently not, as outlined by two…
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A Paradigm Shift is Happening
A “paradigm shift” was the theme of Dr. Marti Glenn, one of the keynote speakers at the 2010 International Congress of The Association for Prenatal…
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First Nations as forest partners may be Roundtable’s most significant recommendation
There’s plenty to be concerned about with the recommendations emanating from the Working Roundtable on Forestry – an open door for raw log exports, diminished…
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