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Why the provincial government should stop bragging about K-12 education funding
For families getting ready to send their children back to underfunded and overcrowded classrooms, it’s no secret that BC’s public education system is stretched to…
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Analysis finds that BC’s “record levels” of K-12 education funding are a fiction
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER–Contrary to provincial government claims that education funding is at “record levels”, new analysis released today finds that education funding…
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What’s the real story behind BC’s education funding crisis?
Download 657.31 KB8 pages This short paper challenges the BC government’s rhetoric that education funding is at “record levels”, and shows that BC can afford to…
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Infographic: Is BC education funding really at “record levels”?
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My wife says I hold on to things too long. Still, when I read BC Hydro’s most recent rate application to the BC Utilities Commission (BCUC), I…
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The BC government’s updated climate (non-)plan: This is not leadership
Today, after many months of delay (on a Friday afternoon in summer), the BC government finally released an updated “Climate Leadership Plan.” Except it isn’t one.…
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Fracking, earthquakes and hydro dams? Don’t worry. We have an understanding.
This is the second of two posts. Read the first here. Efforts by BC Hydro to ban potentially destructive natural gas company fracking operations in…
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Fracking has no place near critical dams or reservoirs
Last year, a dubious record was set when a magnitude 4.6 earthquake was triggered near Fort St. John during a natural gas industry fracking operation.…
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Big dams and a big fracking problem in BC’s energy-rich Peace River Region
Download 293.5 KB12 pages This short paper describes senior BC Hydro officials’ fears that earthquakes triggered by natural gas industry fracking operations could damage Peace…
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Infographics: A big fracking problem in BC’s Peace River Region
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Province must ban fracking near all of BC Hydro’s Peace River dams and reservoirs, groups say
READ THE FULL REPORT HERE. VANCOUVER – Natural gas company fracking operations should be banned near all hydro dams out of concerns that earthquakes triggered…
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The wrong direction: A presentation on the proposed Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion
Presentation to the federal Ministerial Panel holding consultations on the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Proposal Presented in Burnaby, August 10, 2016 Thank you…
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