Extracts of testimony to the Standing Committee on Natural Resources, House of Commons, February 3, 2011 Will Koop (Coordinator, British Columbia Tap Water Alliance): . . . the rush to develop B.C.’s non-renewable deep […]
Horgan questions Clark’s priorities
“In her first opportunity to raise issues of concern to British Columbia, did Premier Clark discuss the likely fallout from the June 24th referendum on the HST?” asked Horgan. “Did she raise […]
Happening here too
From: Documentary Storm, Free Streaming Videos Gasland, a film by Josh Fox (Use this link, not embedded one in photo below.) H/T John W.
Reviews needed urgently
Ben Parfitt and The Tyee make an important contribution, Our Water Secretly Sucked Away by Shale Gas Industry, showing how the BC Liberal government operates in secret to serve the oil and […]
Older does not guarantee wiser
Before Patrick Moore bills himself as “the sensible environmentalist” and claims to have been a leader of the international eco movement for more than 30 years. Others say that when Moore exhausted […]
Don’t worry, be happy
Kathy Marks, The Independent, Shell oil exploration threatens one of the world’s great wonders “Shell Oil has come under heavy criticism for planning an oil and gas drilling site that could threaten […]
Politicians – gilt edged investments
2003, Dr. Marvin Rosenau, senior fisheries biologist with the BC environment ministry, warned that a residential development proposed for Mission would destroy the only urban ecosystem of its type between California and British Columbia. The […]
Behind the screen in the wizard’s chamber, we have . . .
There is unusually heavy traffic here for a Saturday evening so I assume readers are looking for a reaction to today’s anointment of The Progressive Group’s selection as Premier. I was already […]
Disaster in the making
Danger to the environment of northeast British Columbia increases steadily as natural gas producers pump billions of gallons of water and billions of pounds more of sand and chemicals underground in what […]
Backroom deals threaten wilderness west of Invermere
From Conservation Northwest For the last decade, a Canadian billionaire developer has sought to build a four-season resort on the sides of Jumbo Mountain amid dazzling glaciers, wildflower meadows in summer, and […]
Don’t drink the water
This issue is vital to British Columbians. Hydraulic fracturing will play an important role in northeast shale gas fields. Despite known and probable risks, BC Liberals have ceded oversight of the environment […]
Climate Benefits of Natural Gas Overstated
Climate Benefits of Natural Gas May Be Overstated, by Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica, 2011 The United States is poised to bet its energy future on natural gas as a clean, plentiful fuel that […]
Objectives of statements are less clear than they appear
Liberal leadership candidate Kevin Falcon applauds the federal Red Tape Reduction Committee. No surprise there since it is a program of deception and misdirection, a specialty of Falcon, who claims he reduced […]
Aflockalypse no
Last week, ‘Time to evacuate Arkansas‘ was posted at In-Sights for a touch of humor. This week, David Suzuki and Faisal Moola took a more serious approach, writing Mass animal die-offs and the ongoing […]
Luckily, oil leaks won’t happen here
ProPublica reports: “Almost all oil production on Alaska’s North Slope remains shut down after workers on the Trans-Alaska Pipeline system discovered a leak over the weekend. BP, the pipeline company’s largest single […]
Time to evacuate Arkansas?
You know about coal miners and canaries. Life for a bird in a coal mine might be short but it could be meaningful. Being sensitive to poisonous gases, canaries warn of dangerous […]
Please sir, can we have some more?
Black Press news item from BC Liberal PR man Tom Fletcher: Kevin Falcon was in Fort St. John Monday to announce his “Northern Prosperity Agenda” that promises more provincial money for resource […]
We used to lead the world in wood pulp technologies
In February 2010, Catalyst Paper suspended operation of its recycling plant in Coquitlam and later made the closure permanent. BC, once a world leader in the pulp and paper industry, has no […]
‘Good Corporate Citizens’ or what ?
Did Gordon Campbell’s Liberals choose ‘Good Corporate Citizens’ when they gifted development rights in Bute Inlet and other areas of British Columbia’s coastal wilderness? The key investors in Plutonic Power are not moms […]
Bute Inlet report
Bute Inlet is part of British Columbia’s almost unspoiled coastal wilderness, about 200 km north of Vancouver. In my teen years, as a Powell River resident, it was a dream to set […]
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Blair Fix at _Economics from the Top Down_ also wrote two very good papers on the converion of housing into…