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The Carbon Dilemma 25 Aug 2013 | 10:18 pm
The carbon dilemma first received public attention in 2012 when Bill McKibben, an American environmentalist and founder of 350.org, publicized the growing conflict between the known carbon that is sto...
Is geoengineering a silver bullet for climate change? 24 Aug 2013 | 12:29 am
Geoengineering to combat climate change is largely untested. Because we’ve stalled so long on reducing carbon emissions and still aren’t doing enough, we may have to consider it. What will that mean? ...
How Alberta oil companies bought the BC election - and the media missed it 22 Aug 2013 | 10:18 pm
One man, Allan Paul Marking, an Alberta Oil dude, gave $150,000 to the Liberals. Alberta oil and gas companies Encana and Cenovus gave them $68,000 and Texas based Spectra Energy gave $33,000. Many ma...
LNG plant's comment period extended over missing river controversy 22 Aug 2013 | 01:45 am
The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA) announced today that it's extending the public comment period for a controversial, proposed Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) plant near Prince Rupert. Co...
Corky Evans on what's wrong with the BC NDP 20 Aug 2013 | 11:45 pm
I remember when one of the Leaders I worked for asked some guys many of us know to purge our Party of the troublemakers (that was not the word he used.) They did a good job. The “troublemakers” were s...
Sacred Headwaters mine stand-off: Meeting CEO fails to ease tensions 19 Aug 2013 | 10:14 pm
An emergency Aug. 17 meeting between Fortune Minerals CEO Robin Goad and the Tahltan Nation elders who recently issued his company an eviction notice from the Sacred Headwaters failed to ease tensions...
The Rite of Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring 19 Aug 2013 | 04:19 am
This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the first performance of Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. The event in Paris on May 29, 1913, was a watershed moment for classical music, an evening o...
Mine's CEO to meet with Tahltan elders in Sacred Headwaters over eviction notice 17 Aug 2013 | 11:30 pm
Fortune Minerals CEO Robin Goad is reportedly flying into the Sacred Headwaters, in northwest BC, for an emergency discussion this evening with elders of the Tahltan Nation. The 5 pm meeting will addr...
We can’t ignore the little things that keep us alive 17 Aug 2013 | 01:38 am
In our concern with protecting grizzlies and polar bears, whooping cranes and redwood trees, wolves and caribou, we give short shrift to the small creatures that keep the planet livable. Tiny organism...
Malaysian energy giant makes Skeena River disappear in LNG proposal 15 Aug 2013 | 10:33 pm
You would think Malaysian energy giant Petronas would have learned a lesson from fellow fossil fuel pipeline and coastal export terminal proponent Enbridge's "disappearing islands" debacle last year. ...
