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Making Coal an Election Issue
Coal-mining and coal-fired generation and coalbed methane development are intensifying at an alarming rate in BC. These are potentially hot provincial election issues. Coal is the most noxious fossil ...
GSX Pipeline Project Cancelled
Grassoots activists achieved a major victory with the announcement that the ill-advised and much-despised Georgia Straight crossing gas pipline (GSX) has finally been rejected. While the decision today to ...
"Haida 3" – what you can expect from government
It has been almost a month since the judgement of the Supreme Court of Canada in the Haida and Taku cases. If you’ve followed Dogwood Initiative’s coverage of the ...
Canadian Exploration Expense
Are Canadians paying oil & gas companies to explore? It’s worse than that. The Canadian Exploration Expense tax dodge is so perverse that it actually encourages investments which result ...
Kemess North: First Nations, fish and government process
Northgate Minerals’ proposal to use Duncan Lake to dispose of tailings and acid drainage from its Kemess North mine expansion is getting a lot of attention. Don Whiteley wrote ...
Much ado about certainty: the aftermath of recent Supreme Court decisions
Two weeks has passed since the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in the Haida and Taku River Tlingit cases. A casual observer would likely be confused by the various ...
Slow going for community forests
It looks like the positive signals the Ministry of Forests was sending during the summer were just spin after all. This is disheartening news for some communities, especially for ...
"Priddle Report" on BC's offshore moratorium
A pleasant and unexpected surprise! Most British Columbians favour keeping the offshore moratorium. And Roland Priddle is not going to help those politicians who expected him to ease the ...
First Nations report on BC's offshore moratorium
It’s two for two for BC’s First Nations and for the protection of land and oceans. On November 18, the Supreme Court of Canada affirmed that government must consult ...
