The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is calling on B.C. to slow down its shale gas development. The centre says gas fracking is placing unsustainable demands on the province’s water and power resources. Fracking — or hydraulic fracturing — extracts natural gas by injecting pressurized water and chemicals into shale rock formations, allowing the gas […]

By Simon Ross, chief executive, Population Matters Environmentalists agree on the issues facing us, including collapsing diversity, climate change and resource insecurity. We also agree on the causal factors, including pollution, invasive species, resource over-exploitation, waste, population growth, global industrialisation, unsustainable consumption and poor business practices. Solutions are harder. None will solve all our problems […]

By Presidio Economics, Triple Pundit Nobody likes trash: taking it out or talking about it. It smells, it is a hassle to deal with, and it can be hazardous to your health, which is why we go through great lengths to have it hauled away every week. Recycling is trash’s cuter brother, with more support […]

A second chance has been granted to a controversial Interior mine project. The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (the Agency) announced today that the New Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine project near Williams Lake will undergo an environmental assessment by a federal review panel. The massive New Prosperity Mine project, about 125 kilometres southwest of Williams Lake, has […]

A new, permanent public engagement website will give British Columbians an opportunity to review and comment on proposed angling, hunting and trapping regulations. Regulations for angling, hunting and trapping are reviewed and developed every two years, with alternating years for fish and for wildlife. The website ensures the public can review and submit comments on […]

Some of the greatest shifts in tree species are expected to occur in both the northern and southern extremes of western North America, such as British Columbia and Alberta. Over the last three to four decades, forests throughout much of western North America have been subjected to disturbance at a scale well beyond that previously […]

West Kootenay residents and people across B.C. will get up to $5,000 off the sticker price of a qualifying clean energy vehicle starting Dec. 1. Environment Minister Terry Lake said Saturday that the rebate includes qualifying new vehicles that are battery electric, fuel-cell electric, plug-in hybrid electric and those that operate on compressed natural gas. […]

Leading water expert and author Robert Sandford, co-chair of the Forum for Leadership on Water (FLOW) and chair of the Canadian Partnership Initiative for the UN Water for Life Decade, will stop in Nelson this Friday as part of a cross-Canada tour to raise awareness about water security issues. “Governments need a Canada-wide strategy that […]

By Michelle Martin “It’s going to get depressing at the middle of this talk, and it will end up a little more cheerful. Be patient and don’t cry.” With that cautionary note, Gwynne Dyer began his 2011 Power Smart Forum keynote address: Hot, Hungry & Hostile: The Geopolitics of a Warming World. The talk, which is […]

By Deena Stryker in SACSIS.An Italian radio program's story about Iceland’s on-going revolution is a stunning example of how little our media tells us about the rest of the world. Americans may remember that at the start of the 2008 financial crisis, Iceland literally went bankrupt.  The reasons were mentioned only in passing,...