Boat Winterization – What All Owners Should Know
Winterizing is one of those joys (or necessary tasks – depending on your outlook) of…
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There’s No Time Left to Waste in Addressing the Climate Crisis
In 1989, I did a radio series for CBC called It’s a Matter of Survival. It…
More Than an Energy Shift, We Need a Paradigm Shift
In the effort to limit and reverse the worsening impacts of global heating, the immediate…
Clean Energy Transition sparks Nuclear Reaction
As the impacts of climate disruption become more frequent and intense, we need a range…
Solutions to Climate Crisis Exist, But We Need the Will to Change
Resolving the climate crisis is a challenge — but not for lack of solutions. What’s…
Climate Crisis? Who knew? Turns Out the Oil Industry Did
By now, anyone paying attention knows that burning coal, oil and gas has created a…
It’s Time to Extinguish Oil and Gas Industry “Gaslighting”
This summer, a Fortis BC booth at a Vancouver farmers market displayed the slogan, “Natural…
Will the World Again Hit “Snooze” on Latest Climate Alarm?
Over the decades that I and others have been warning about the consequences of burning…
Is There a Rational Argument Against Climate Action?
When politicians and fossil-fuelled media seize on a few ill-chosen words I or other environmental…
Everything Under the Sun
As light slowly returns to the Northern Hemisphere, we anticipate brighter days ahead. It’s a…
Let’s Tip the Scales Toward Justice
Humanity seems to be teetering on the brink. On one hand, we know that rapidly…
Ecojustice Lawyers are in Court to Protect the Ocean Waters off the Coast of Newfoundland/Labrador from Offshore Oil Drilling
We’re challenging what we say is a flawed Regional Assessment for proposed drilling in this…
The Climate is Changing Rapidly, but the Oil Industry Isn’t
It’s easy to think we’re beyond denial over the climate crisis, now that even oil industry…
Fossil Fuel Industry Faces an Overdue Reckoning
Oil giant ExxonMobil’s leaders have a long history of doing everything to keep the world from addressing…
Does Fracked Methane Deserve a “Natural” Label?
On his first day in office, U.S. President Joe Biden announced plans to impose limits on…
Leading Thinkers Call for Fossil Fuel Halt
In 1970, to make the world safer from humanity’s worst self-destructive impulses, most nations joined…
‘The Story of Plastic’ is an eye-opener on the global plastic pollution crisis
What does an anti-oil & gas activist in Houston, Texas, have in common with a…
Multiple crises expose systemic flaws
The coronavirus spreading COVID-19 around the globe isn’t the first disease microbe suspected to have…
More federal transit money, e-buses could be climate lifesavers
If we’re going to tackle the climate crisis, we have to reduce transportation emissions. Good…
A 2020 vision for climate action
Let’s hope 2020 marks the start of a year and decade when we finally take…
Oil spills pose unacceptable threats to marine life
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says oil pipelines have no place in B.C.’s Great Bear Rainforest. Opponents of the approved Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion to the West Coast and the cancelled Energy East pipeline to the East Coast argue pipelines and tankers don’t belong in any coastal areas. Research led by the Raincoast Conservation Foundation confirms the threat to marine mammals in B.C. waters from a seven-fold increase in tanker traffic is considerable.
Oil spills pose unacceptable threats to marine life
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says oil pipelines have no place in B.C.’s Great Bear Rainforest.…
Study finds Exxon misled the public by withholding climate knowledge
Coal, oil and gas are tremendous resources: solar energy absorbed by plants and super-concentrated over…
Research sheds light on dark corner of B.C.’s oil and gas industry
We’ve long known extracting oil and gas comes with negative consequences, and rapid expansion of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, increases the problems and adds new ones — excessive water use and contamination, earthquakes, destruction of habitat and agricultural lands and methane emissions among them.
Research sheds light on dark corner of B.C.’s oil and gas industry
We’ve long known extracting oil and gas comes with negative consequences, and rapid expansion of…