Muddied waters: how clearcut logging is driving a water crisis in B.C.’s interior
Community watersheds across the province were once off-limits to logging, but in recent decades that’s...
Stories by Ben Parfitt
Fracking-induced earthquakes prompt call for buffer zones around Site C dam
In November, two wells being fracked caused an earthquake so severe it halted construction at...
Sprawling clearcuts among reasons for B.C.’s monster spring floods
Wildfire, drought and a pine beetle epidemic are piling on top of a long history...
How B.C. quietly found a way to permit natural gas plants without environmental reviews
Internal documents released via Freedom of Information laws show that, while the B.C. government was...
B.C. investigation into Old Fort landslide caught up in conflict of interest, residents say
The same ministry that permitted a gravel mine near the Old Fort landslide is now...
From grain country to gas land
Fracking operations that extract condensate for Alberta's oilsands are quietly encroaching on B.C. farmland, raising...
The problem with exempting major projects from environmental assessment
The province’s little-known Environmental Assessment Office has broad discretionary powers, including the authority to select...
B.C. grants fracking company free pass to build illegal dams
Progress Energy sidestepped the environmental permitting process for two massive and unpermitted dams — one...
The resource B.C. is piping to Alberta that nobody is talking about
Skyrocketing condensate exports are crucial component of shipping oilsands bitumen
