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Is there more to the story that we don’t know?

July 21, 2014 | 

In this op-ed from SFU Urban Studies professor Anthony Perl, someone finally tackles the question of whether building new infrastructure for U.S. thermal coal exports is a wise investment ...

Why I signed the Let BC Vote pledge

Guest writer Jess Housty’s original post can be found here Last week I signed the Let BC Vote pledge. You could say I’m late to the party. More than ...

Summer in B.C.: rockstars, roughnecks, rights and title

Kai Nagata, Energy & Democracy Director: How can you tell a campaign is starting to pick up serious momentum? I don’t know about you, but I’m starting to notice ...

Multi-faith Partners Unite for Tar Sands Healing Walk

I came back a changed woman after my river pilgrimage to the tar sands last September and was more determined than ever to take action. After sharing my story ...

Harper and Enbridge’s massive angry inch problem

June 10, 2014 | 

It’s 2007 and we’ve been running our No Tanker campaign for a couple years. Our Oil Tankers are Loonie campaign had gone viral attracting press and supporters from around ...

After the speech he gave yesterday, approving Northern Gateway would be an act of utter betrayal

June 10, 2014 | 

Can you imagine Stephen Harper saying this? “Before politics I spent most of my life working in First Nations communities – in Northern Ontario and in fact across Canada, ...

Farce Unfolds at Port Metro Vancouver AGM

June 6, 2014 | 

Many who attended yesterday’s meeting knew they were going to have to sit through the business material of any semi-independent industry and government-appointed board’s reporting. However, we also knew ...

Six Dogwood teams hit their targets

April 25, 2014 | 

It’s working. Dogwood Initiative and its allies are building what is already the largest nonpartisan political organizing network in British Columbia. We’re conservative and liberal, urban and rural – ...

B.C. government secretly approves coal permitting amendment

April 23, 2014 | 

Thanks to a dedicated Beyond Coal supporter from Burnaby, we learned that the provincial ministry of energy and mines secretly approved a permit amendment allowing Texada Quarries to expand ...