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us/This Vigilante Scientist Trekked Over 10,000 Kilometres to Reveal B.C.’s Leaking Gas Wells
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If you’d met John Werring four years ago, he wouldn’t have been able to tell you what an abandoned gas well looked like. “We had no idea whether they were even accessible,” said the registered pro...
us/TransCanada Cancels Energy East Oilsands Pipeline
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Canadian pipeline company TransCanada announced today it will no longer be proceeding with its proposed Energy East Pipeline and Eastern Mainline projects. “After careful review of changed circums...
us/Pacific NorthWest LNG is Dead: 5 Things You Need to Know
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Malaysia’s Petronas has cancelled plans to build the Pacific NorthWest LNG plant on Lelu Island near Prince Rupert, B.C., in a move seen as a major setback for B.C.'s LNG dreams and as a major win ...
us/Justin Trudeau May Look Pretty in a Kayak, But He’s No Climate Saint
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Last week Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau managed to capture international headlines for a kayak outing on the Niagara River in Ontario. How, you may ask? Well Trudeau paddled up to a famil...
6 Charts That Show Trump Isn’t Stopping the Renewable Energy Revolution Any Time Soon
ByEmma Gilchrist
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The solar industry was responsible for creating one out of every 50 new jobs in the U.S. last year and the country’s fastest-growing occupation is wind turbine technician — so no matter one’s feeli...
us/FYI: ‘World Leading’ Oil Spill Response Means Nothing
ByEmma Gilchrist
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Governments love buzzwords — probably because they roll off the tongue so nicely that people often overlook the fact they’re meaningless. Take one of the B.C. government’s favourite expressions of...
us/Exclusive New Photos: The B.C. Government's Frantic Push to Get Site C Dam Past 'Point of No Return'
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Just two years ago only four in 10 British Columbians had even heard of the Site C dam. Now, the project — one of the most expensive and environmentally destructive in B.C.’s history — is making in...
us/Christy Clark Hopes You’re Not Reading This
ByEmma Gilchrist
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It’s 31 degrees outside and I was planning to go to the lake this afternoon — and I’d be willing to hazard a guess that many British Columbians are in the same boat. That’s exactly why B.C. Premie...
us/Trudeau Just Broke His Promise to Canada's First Nations
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Justin Trudeau’s government has quietly issued its first batch of permits for the Site C dam — allowing construction to move forward on the $8.8 billion BC Hydro project despite ongoing legal chall...
us/‘No Need for Site C’: Review Panel Chair Speaks Out Against Dam in New Video
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A new video released today by DeSmog Canada features an exclusive video interview with Harry Swain, chair of the federal-provincial panel tasked with reviewing the controversial Site C dam. “I thi...
us/‘It’s the Last Place We Have for Our People’: Doig River’s Last Stand Amidst Fracking Boom
ByEmma Gilchrist
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In the heart of one of the continent’s biggest fracking booms stands a place the people of the Doig River First Nation have revered for generations. Elders remember visiting this ancient spruce fo...
us/B.C. Orders Enbridge to Seek New Environment Certificate for Northern Gateway
ByEmma Gilchrist
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Enbridge will have to secure an environmental assessment certificate from the B.C. government if it wants to proceed with its Northern Gateway oil pipeline according to an order issued by B.C.’s En...
us/‘It’s No Longer About Saying No’: How B.C.’s First Nations Are Taking Charge With Tribal Parks
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As the crow flies, the territory of the Tsilhqot’in Nation lies just 300 kilometres north of Vancouver — but, cut off by the coastal mountains, it feels like a world away.   By car it takes about n...
us/‘It’s a New Day’: Why Environmentalists Need to Change Their Strategy Under Trudeau Government
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Nine and a half years. That’s how long Stephen Harper was prime minister of Canada — a long haul for environmentalists, who were all but shut out of Ottawa and often antagonized by the federal gove...
us/Canada Now Has a Minister of Environment AND Climate Change
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Leaders in Canada’s environmental community are expressing optimism about the appointment of lawyer Catherine McKenna as Minister of Environment and Climate Change at a swearing in ceremony in Otta...
us/Is the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline Finally Dead?
ByEmma Gilchrist
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In August 2014, Liberal leader Justin Trudeau made the trek to the tiny Gitga’at community of Hartley Bay, located along Enbridge’s proposed oil tanker route in northwestern B.C. There, in the vil...
us/Prime Minister Harper’s Inaction on Climate Killed the Keystone XL Oilsands Pipeline
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With U.S. President Barack Obama expected to deny a permit to the Keystone XL pipeline this fall, Canada’s oil industry is looking for someone to blame. The National Post’s Claudia Cattaneo wrote l...
us/Canada’s Charitable Law Urgently Needs Reforming: New UVic Report
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A report released today by the University of Victoria’s Environmental Law Centre calls for sweeping reform of Canadian charitable law in line with other jurisdictions such as the U.S., Australia, N...
us/Energy Executive Quits Trans Mountain Pipeline Review, Calls NEB Process A ‘Public Deception'
ByEmma Gilchrist
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An energy executive is weighing in on the federal review of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion with a scathing letter that calls the National Energy Board’s review process “fraud...
us/B.C. LNG Strategy Won’t Help Solve Global Climate Change: New Pembina Institute Report
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The B.C. government’s claim that LNG exports offer the “greatest single step British Columbia can take to fight climate change” is inaccurate in the absence of stronger global climate policies acco...

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