Reading Time: 4 minutes The benefits of ride-hailing services are many, for both individuals and communities. So what’s the holdup in B.C.?
Tag: BC environment
Bizarre cult of oppression grips Canada’s West Coast
Reading Time: 4 minutes The environment is only a side issue for an increasingly passionate mob of activists whose assault on the ‘establishment’ is nothing less than a moral crusade
Attacks on hydraulic fracturing in B.C. defy settled science
Reading Time: 3 minutes A public inquiry will simply play into the hands of those who oppose energy production in B.C., depriving the province of significant economic benefits
Stick to the facts to protect old-growth forests in B.C.
Reading Time: 3 minutes Debate on Vancouver Island’s old growth forests must be based on facts, not just conjuring up feelings of nostalgia, awe and respect
B.C. budget abandons any hope for efficient carbon tax
Reading Time: 3 minutes Subsidizing green projects with revenue from carbon taxes may be politically popular but it’s fundamentally misguided policy
B.C.’s Sunshine Coast gets a taste of the raging wildfires
Reading Time: 4 minutes 70 years of Smokey the Bear and aggressive wildfire suppression efforts filled the forests with a tinder load just waiting to blow
B.C. government’s pipeline paranoia putting safety at risk
Reading Time: 3 minutes Real world data shows that oil can be moved safely and less expensively by pipeline, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions
B.C. Greens should support Site C dam, for all British Columbians
Reading Time: 3 minutes Aboriginal rights are extremely important but, like any Charter right, they’re not absolute. They must be balanced against other competing critical interests
Why Trudeau and Notley are right to support pipeline expansion
Reading Time: 3 minutes We need the Trans Mountain project in order to protect the environment, keep costs in control, ensure the safety of workers and bolster the nation’s economy
Sinking the myth of dangerous West Coast oil tanker traffic
Reading Time: 4 minutes As a change in government looms in British Columbia puts the Kinder Morgan expansion project in jeopardy, we need to realize just how safe oil tankers are