6 awkward realities behind B.C.’s big LNG giveaway
11 min. read
11 min. readWith sprawling LNG tax breaks, the province just took its most significant environmental step yet...
Potential health impacts of fracking in B.C. worry Dawson Creek physicians
10 min. read
‘I have some patients whose symptoms I can’t explain,’ physician Ulrike Meyer says, describing nosebleeds,...
8 major gaps in B.C.’s knowledge about fracking
6 min. read
Scientific panel outlines just how much we know — about what we don’t know —...
Fracking-induced earthquakes prompt call for buffer zones around Site C dam
13 min. read
In November, two wells being fracked caused an earthquake so severe it halted construction at...
B.C. left holding massive bill for hundreds of orphan gas wells as frack companies go belly-up
13 min. read
On the cusp of a major fracking boom, B.C.’s Oil and Gas Commission is already...
From grain country to gas land
15 min. read
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
5 min. read
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
13 min. read
Progress Energy sidestepped the environmental permitting process for two massive and unpermitted dams — one...
Blueberry River and the death by a thousand cuts
16 min. read
Once promised a life in perpetuity on a rich and vibrant landscape, the Blueberry River...
