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Category Archives: Canadian Politics
On the Achilles Heel of these Climate Damages Lawsuits: Municipal Zoning Bylaws
By now everyone has heard about West Coast Environmental Law’s (WCEL’s) Climate Accountability Letters campaign. This is the campaign where a group of enterprising lawyers are: asking your municipality (or regional district) to send “Climate Accountability Letters” to 20 of … Continue reading
Debunking more activist talking points about BC LNG: on “illegal dams”, electrification, and LNG as a bridge fuel
The thing I really don’t understand about the activist class in BC is their intellectual incoherence. They argue that climate change is an existential threat to our planet; but that we should only fight climate change using a small suite … Continue reading
On the “shocking” revelations in the BC Hydro IPP review and the reality that the fight against climate change is not going to be cheap
This week A Review of BC Hydro’s Purchase of Power from Independent Power Producers came out and to no one’s surprise it revealed that BC Hydro is paying too much for all that intermittent, low-carbon power purchased under the 2007 … Continue reading
Questioning the PBO’s math on the value of the Trans Mountain Pipeline
The Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO), Yves Giroux, produced a report this week on the estimated value of the Trans Mountain Pipeline (TMP) and the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project (TMEP). This report has a lot of people up in arms … Continue reading
Posted in Canadian Politics, Pipelines, Trans Mountain, Uncategorized
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New research puts a stake into the heart of the “Bridge to Nowhere” argument against BC LNG
As someone who has followed the BC LNG debate pretty closely, I can’t count the number of times I have heard the expression “natural gas is a bridge to nowhere“. This expression derives from an infamous article by Cornell Biologist … Continue reading
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Why a Pragmatic Environmentalist supports BC LNG – doing the climate math
As a pragmatic environmentalist , I am often asked how I could support the BC LNG export industry? I prepared a Twitter thread on the topic but have since been asked to show my work. This blog post builds on … Continue reading
Follow-up on: Academics getting it wrong on Environmental Assessments – a case study
My previous post Academics getting it wrong about the role of private sector consultants in BC’s Environmental Assessment processes was started in November and sat in my “drafts” folder for over a month. The reason I finished it during my break … Continue reading
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