Environmental Assessment

If approved, the proposed Bute Inlet private hydropower project would be the largest to exist in Canada.

by Joe Foy

I looked at the posters on the wall in disbelief. “There has to be more than this,” I muttered to myself.

by Arthur Caldicott

It's when someone wants to mine it that all hell breaks loose. 

Let's go back 150 million years, back to the tail end of

by Arthur Caldicott

The bottled water industry enjoyed impressive growth until 2007, the result of relentless advertising, ubiquitous availability, and a propaganda assault on public water systems. 2.36 billion litres of water were sold in Canada in 2006, worth an estimated $708 million. In the US in 2007, 33.3 billion litres were sold for $11.5 billion.

In 2008, growth turned negative. Recession squeezed shoppers' wallets, and bottled water fell off their shopping lists. It wasn't just recession, though. People weren't buying the lie about unsafe tap water. And mountains of bottles in blue boxes and landfills were

by Stephanie Orford

Should Delta sacrifice a keystone ecological region for a chance at economic growth? Many Delta citizens

by Arthur Caldicott

Ten years ago Beanstalk Capital Corp. was a new company with nothing more than a listing on the TSE Ventures Exchange. Today it is Compliance Energy Corp., and its Raven Underground Coal Project is a proposal to mine 44 million tonnes (2.2 million a year) from a coal deposit near Fanny Bay on Vancouver Island.

by Morgan Hite and Dave Stevens

In January 2005 the neighbours first learned that a company called Blue Pearl had optioned the rights to begin mining Hudson Bay Mountain, right next to Smithers, BC. The seven million tonne deposit of molybdenum ore had been explored in the 1970s but

by Anne Sherrod

Many environmentalists feel that their most important role at this time is to help the public accept that global warming and peak oil are real and potentially deadly problems.

by Maggie Paquet

Google the phrase, “Site C” and whaddya get? 1,270,000 hits! The first two are from BC Hydro claiming that another dam on the Peace River is a good source of “green energy.” Green energy?

What does the term “green energy” mean? That it’s completely “sustainable”?