Climate change & energy policy

BC’s LNG tax breaks and subsidies offside with the need for climate action

May 9, 2019

The BC government’s new fiscal framework for LNG is fundamentally at odds with the province’s CleanBC climate plan. Details in the government agreement with LNG Canada show that BC is subsidizing fossil fuel production at a time when we need to keep it in the ground. The BC government made four major concessions in the… View Article

Reality check: High BC gas prices and pipeline rhetoric from Alberta’s new premier

May 7, 2019

By J David Hughes

Alberta’s new premier, Jason Kenney, has wasted no time engaging in belligerent actions to “get Alberta’s resources to market.” Right off the bat he passed the “turn off the taps” bill to cut off BC’s supply of oil if the Province doesn’t reverse its stance opposing the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion (TMX). He also claimed… View Article

Canada’s Climate Conundrum: Government oil and gas production policies will doom emission reduction targets

May 2, 2019

By J David Hughes

In 2015 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau proclaimed in Paris that “Canada is back!” and committed to a 30 per cent emissions reduction from 2005 levels by 2030. So how is that going? According to Canada’s most-recent submission to the UN, emissions were down a mere two per cent from 2005 levels as of 2017. If… View Article

Turn off the taps? Alberta already has Vancouver over a barrel

Apr 29, 2019

By Marc Lee

Drivers in Metro Vancouver are reeling from record high gas prices, and many commentators are blaming taxes. Now, Alberta’s Premier-elect Jason Kenney is threatening to “turn off the taps” to push prices even higher because, it is alleged, BC is causing them to lose billions of dollars in oil revenues by opposing the Trans Mountain… View Article

A burning issue: As greenhouse gas emissions from forest fires grow, Ottawa has role to play in restoration

Mar 27, 2019

By Ben Parfitt

As one of the largest and the most extensively forested countries in the world, Canada faces unique challenges in tackling climate change. Wildfires are burning more forests than ever as temperature and precipitation patterns change. In the process, millions of tonnes of carbon are released, pushing global greenhouse gas emissions higher. As a signatory to… View Article

Shaking the Peace: Fracking-induced earthquakes rattle BC Hydro execs and farmers alike

Mar 21, 2019

By Ben Parfitt

BC Hydro officials were so alarmed by an earthquake that shook the ground at its sprawling Site C dam construction project in late November, they ordered a halt to all work and got on the phone to British Columbia’s Oil and Gas Commission (OCG). The 4.5 magnitude earthquake was linked to natural gas company fracking… View Article

Inside job: How BC Hydro customers wound up bankrolling private power companies

Feb 27, 2019

By John Calvert

The chickens have finally come home to roost on the previous BC government’s private power giveaway. The just-released provincial report by Ken Davidson on the costs of BC Hydro’s power purchases is a damning indictment of its electricity policies—policies whose exorbitant and wholly unnecessary costs will saddle BC ratepayers with an enormous financial burden for… View Article

How clean is a BC that subsidizes accelerated fossil fuel extraction?

Feb 25, 2019

By Ben Parfitt

When the provincial government unveiled its new climate plan late last year, Environment Minister George Heyman, Green Party leader Andrew Weaver and Premier John Horgan presented a happy, united front as ceremonies got underway at Vancouver’s main library. But the biggest smiles of the day may have been on the faces of senior executives at… View Article

Goin’ slow: BC Budget fails to make meaningful investments in climate action

Feb 22, 2019

By Marc Lee

The BC government’s new climate plan, CleanBC, was released in December 2018 to great fanfare. The plan, as we noted back then, is progress after many years of stalling and pretend climate leadership, but is still a work in progress. The government’s widely repeated claim that CleanBC gets 75% of the way to BC’s 2030 GHG… View Article

False advertising by the Alberta government and oil lobby

Feb 20, 2019

By J David Hughes

As an Alberta-born and -raised earth scientist who has made a career studying fossil fuels and energy issues, I am dismayed at the bombardment of ‘fake news’ in print, online and TV ads from the Alberta government on the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion (TMX). These ads are repeated hourly on several TV stations. One ad… View Article

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A progressive take on BC issues

A progressive take on BC issues

Climate change & energy policy

BC’s LNG tax breaks and subsidies offside with the need for climate action

Reality check: High BC gas prices and pipeline rhetoric from Alberta’s new premier

Canada’s Climate Conundrum: Government oil and gas production policies will doom emission reduction targets

Turn off the taps? Alberta already has Vancouver over a barrel

A burning issue: As greenhouse gas emissions from forest fires grow, Ottawa has role to play in restoration

Shaking the Peace: Fracking-induced earthquakes rattle BC Hydro execs and farmers alike

Inside job: How BC Hydro customers wound up bankrolling private power companies

How clean is a BC that subsidizes accelerated fossil fuel extraction?

Goin’ slow: BC Budget fails to make meaningful investments in climate action

False advertising by the Alberta government and oil lobby