B.C.’s vanishing hazardous waste database
How the B.C. government quietly stopped producing critical data tracking the movement of dangerous chemicals,...
Stories by Ben Parfitt
Leaked document shows B.C. Oil and Gas Commission undermining efforts to save threatened caribou
This piece also appeared on Policy Note, for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. On...
B.C. Government Suppressed Details About Potentially Dangerous, Unregulated Fracking Dams
Early last spring, provincial civil servants cut off virtually all communication about what the government...
‘Time Bombs’: 92 Fracking Dams Quietly Built Without Permits, B.C. Government Docs Reveal
This piece originally appeared on Policy Note, by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The...
B.C. Finds Gas Industry Built Numerous Unauthorized Fracking Dams Without Engineering Plans
Originally published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. More than half of nearly 50...
Fracking Company Ordered to Drain Two Unauthorized Dams in B.C.’s Northeast
This article was originally published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The provincial government...
A Dam Big Problem: Fracking Companies Build Dozens of Unauthorized Dams in B.C.’s Northeast
A subsidiary of Petronas, the Malaysian state-owned petro giant courted by the B.C. government, has...
Fracking, Earthquakes and Hydro Dams? Don’t Worry, We Have an Understanding.
By Ben Parfitt for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Efforts by BC Hydro to...
Big Dams and a Big Fracking Problem in B.C.’s Energy-rich Peace River Region
By Ben Parfitt for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Senior BC Hydro officials have...
