Posts from ‘Beyond Coal’ - Page 7

Global perspective on local coal export proposals

January 20, 2014 | 

Dogwood Initiative recently had the honour of hosting a visit from Calvin Quek, head of the sustainable finance program at Greenpeace East Asia. Calvin – a Canadian citizen who ...

Thousands Demand New Assessment of U.S. Coal Export Proposal

December 17, 2013 | 

In the past 30 days nearly 2,000 supporters of the Dogwood Initiative have submitted comments to Port Metro Vancouver rejecting its environmental impact assessment (EIA) of the proposal to ...

November 5 telephone town hall

On Nov. 5 2013, Dogwood Initiative hosted a telephone town hall offering people the opportunity to hear updates from campaign directors as well as ask questions in a radio ...

Coal exports from U.S. sent via B.C. shorten lives in China

October 17, 2013 | 

A tired and offensive argument regularly used by the coal industry inspired me to write this piece. It goes something like this: selling coal to China is helping alleviate ...

Your coal export questions answered

July 25, 2013 | 

1) B.C. doesn’t currently have any coal-burning power plants. Why should I be worried about coal? Many parts of the world, including B.C., have stopped burning coal to create ...

Coal campaign heats up: a month in the life of Dogwood’s new coal campaigner

June 26, 2013 | 

For more than two years now Dogwood Initiative has been quietly gearing up to take on another fossil fuel threat to our air, land and water: coal. While our ...

Port Metro Vancouver approves North Van coal expansion despite health concerns

February 13, 2013 | 

On Jan. 23, Port Metro Vancouver approved a proposal to expand a North Vancouver coal export facility’s capacity to enable 18 million metric tonnes of coal to be exported ...

Grassroots Action on Climate Change

January 14, 2011 | 

Here at Dogwood initiative, we’ve been busy doing research on BC’s coal industry and we’ll soon be releasing two major research reports, which will form the foundation of a ...

10 Key Questions for 2010 – Question 3

February 17, 2010 | 

Did you ever just wake up one day and know deep down that something important was going to happen to you? That was the way I felt last month ...