Documents reveal how Alberta oil and gas industry used pandemic to push ‘wish list’
In closed-door meetings with Alberta officials, lobbyists repackaged long-standing requests — on everything from wetland...
A life — and death — in Fort Chipewyan, downstream from the oilsands
A photographer spent years documenti communities downstream of Alberta’s oilsands. Then he was invited to...
B.C. has a growing mine waste problem. The risks could be catastrophic
As the province permits mines to hold more tailings slurry behind ever-growing dams, a new...
Don’t you know that tailings ponds are toxic?
In this week's newsletter, we talk to reporter Drew Anderson about tailings ponds in northern...
Ponds of toxic waste in Alberta’s oilsands are bigger than Vancouver — and growing
Mapping the growth of the toxic reservoirs shows just how far they’ve expanded since 1975,...
Between a rock and an arts place: can a B.C. town survive another gold rush?
Wells, B.C., was built around gold mining, but a proposed project has the community debating...
The federal government should cap toxic oilsands tailings — not approve its release into rivers
Ottawa’s move to allow oil and gas companies to dump ‘treated’ effluent into the Athabasca...
Mount Polley loses appeal of $9,000 penalty for violating new wastewater permit
The company responsible for Canada’s largest tailings spill failed to meet new provincial conditions for...
Audit of B.C.’s tailings pond regulations casts shadow on government’s ‘world class’ mining claims
B.C. positions itself as a world leader in responsible mining, but an internal review of...
