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Shell suspends drilling in the Sacred Headwaters
After considerable pressure from affected communities and conservation groups, Royal Dutch Shell has announced a suspension in coalbed methane drill...
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Save our Rivers
The follwoing is a letter written by Damien Gillis which responds t a recent article in the Globe and Mail. Sdaly I cannot find the article in the Glo...
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Greening of the Film Industry
Pete Mitchell, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Vancouver Film Studio explains how their company has achieved Carbon Neutral st...
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Becky |
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Bag Ban Just Makes Sense
Vancouver is considering a ban on the use of plastic bags by businesses. It seems long overdue with our reputation as a Green City'.
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Shane_B |
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4,500-year-old Arctic Ice Shelves Break Up
CBC reports that researchers from Trent and Laval universities have recorded the break up of hundreds of square kilometres of Arctic ice shelves - so...
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Palin denies climate change realities on first day as McCain's running mate
What are the ramifications of a US Vice President that is willing to shrug off the scientific realities of global warming? Guess we'll find out if Jo...
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One More Thom
Architect Bing Thom always gives good quote - and Michael McCarthy passes on a few choice observations in the recent Vancouver Courier piece: Beyond V...
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Price Tags |
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Capitol Hill candidates urging inaction on global warming
The science behind global warming doesn't really explain why the past models haven't been accurate, or why there are holes big enough to drive a Ma...
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Port Mann Congestion Claim Questioned
The StraightKevin Purton of Surrey Environmental Partners has photographic evidence that Kevin Falcon's claim of 14 hours a day of congestion is...
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Oil is the source of the power of our enemies, and
Oil is the source of the power of our enemies, and the enemies of democracy and peace. Until we shift the global economy decisively away from petro-ec...
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Littlemore vs Monckton: Except with Facts This Time
Below, courtesy of James Taylor at the Heartland Institute, is a transcript of the debate between Christopher Walter (or Viscount Monckton, as he pr...
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Polluters Beware
I've often wondered if EPA actually stands for Environmental Pillaging Act, so contrary to environmental protection are the policies and recommendatio...
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Compost bug offers hope for biofuel industry
The GuardianA detritus-loving bug found in garden compost heaps has been genetically turbo-charged' to help it break down tough plant matter at spe...
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What Metro Vancouver doesn't want us to think about
This story, appearing in the Georgia Straight, was noticed by Gudrun Langolf and copied to the BCEN mailing list. I am going to break my usual practic...
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What's in an offset?
The Campbell administration's climate action secretariat has convened a hasty meeting with environmental groups this coming Thursday to discuss the go...
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Public Eye Online |
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Langley MP Mark Warawa's Cons. Party SPAM Flyers Questions Left Unanswered
Following this introduction, you will find the posting from Jared Butcher of The Butcher Shoppe blog. Jared Butcher of Victoria, British Columbia c...
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Langley Free Press |
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Gil Penalosa comes to Vancouver
Walking, Bicycling and Public Spaces: Lessons from Bogota and Beyond An evening with Gil Pe alosaAugust 20, 7 pm, SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West Hasti...
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SFU City |
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Must-hear Lecture: Gil Penalosa
Walking, Bicycling and Public Spaces: Lessons from Bogota and Beyond An evening with Gil Pe alosaAugust 20, 7 pm, SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West Hasti...
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Price Tags |
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US to Poor Countries: "Just Use Your Imagination!"
The National Center for Atmospheric Research, an important hub for work on the causes and consequences of climate change, has shut down a program focu...
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Highway of Good Intentions?
Vancouver Olympic Plans Bulldoze Rare ForestsDespite a reputation for environmental friendliness and official pledges the 2010 Vancouver Winter Ol...
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Multiple awards for DeSmog in the 2008 Green Web Awards
Roll out the green carpet! DeSmogBlog has received 3 mentions in the 2008 Green Web Awards. DeSmogBlog was named runner-up in the Climate Change Web...
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CORE's war on poor campiagn hits the airwaves - DeSmogBlog all over it
Last night we got word that Niger Innis, spokesperson for ExxonMobil, Monsanto, the Congress of Racial Equality was going to be on a CBC national rad...
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Is CORE fighting for the poor or Big Oil?
With major corporate donations in the past from big players like Monsanto and ExxonMobil, I apologize for being more than a little cynical about the C...
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CORE's War on the Poor and the Environment
An organization called the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) recently launched an anti-environmentalist pro-energy campaign called the 'War on the ...
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Vancouver's Downtown Eastside: Hope for the Future
In an area of Vancouver defined by despair, drug addiction, mental health disorders, and a lack of hope for the future, the prospect of marginally bet...
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VanRamblings |
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David Bellamy's glacier growing myth finally put to rest
This story has history. In 2005, a former UK environmentalist named David Bellamy had a letter published in New Scientist magazine claiming that: Inde...
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Who Killed the Electric Car - Again?
The Canadian government has killed a B.C. electric auto company, forcing the owner to shut down and sell his technology and tools to a company in Paki...
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Independent Power Production
Hat tip to Gudrun Langolf for the linkThe experience of Squamish Valley residents and the Squamish Lillooet Regional District are instructive for thos...
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Fort to Get New Statues
I know many of you tossed and turned all night, wondering about the big John Baird-Mark Warawa announcement in Fort Langley (which we blogged about ea...
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Langley Politics Dotcom |
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For oil times sake
It was a year ago yesterday: At approximately 12:30pm on July 24, 2007, a contractor working for the City of Burnaby struck Kinder Morgan Canada's pip...
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Burnaby Politics |
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Fuel cell cars still 15 years away at best: study
Reuters via Environmental News NetworkThe study concluded that the best way to reduce oil consumption and greenhouse gas emissions over th...
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Watchdog finds bungling, negligence in forest deal that enriched company
After the auditor general's devastating report on the government's incompetence and negligence in removing vast tracts of prime Vancouver Island land ...
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Are we selling off gas resources too cheaply?
Six months into the year, and the B.C. government has sold almost $1 billion worth of gas leases. That's just short of the record total for all of 20...
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Paying attention |
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Canada's oilsands are an environmental problem, not a public relations one
The companies' record on land reclamation speaks for itself. And only baby steps have been taken to date to develop carbon capture and storage technol...
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Top 10 Facts About the Alberta Oil Sands
We started a short and sweet resource page on the environmental impacts of the Canada Oil Sands operation. If you would like to add a link to further...
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The best tax is a consumption tax.
Taxing consumption is one of the most economically effective methods of generating government revenues without distorting the economy. Consumption ta...
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High oil prices put the brakes on a future of endless progress
Pete McMartin in the Sun continues to surprise me with his well balanced and thpoughtful commentary.In particular, I wouldn't want to be an engineer o...
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Rallying in the face of despair
A guest post from Donna Passmore addressed to those fighting to protect the region's environment I know you feel defeated and frustrated. I know how h...
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US Solar Moratorium Canceled
The US government has backtracked on the moratorium on new solar powered projects it announced less than 2 weeks ago. In a news release today, the Bu...
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White House Covers Up $2 Trillion Global Warming Benefit
The White House has been sitting on a document for a year and a half now that estimates a long term savings in excess of $2 trillion through 2040 if t...
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McCain and Obama Stand United on Canada's Oil Sands
Barack Obama made headlines across Canada last week over his proposed national low carbon fuel standard. Such a proposal, if implemented, would be a...
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Dirty Oil Sands Ad Greets Alberta Premier in Wyoming
When Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach flew into Wyoming for the Western Governor's Association meeting this week he undoubtedly saw the full page ad in th...
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Just slow down
The Sun has a list of ten fuel saving tips this morning which I reproduce below.My commute to work has to be by car - and is on Highway 99 through the...
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Russell: "A carbon tax is about tax policy, not environmental policy."
Rising opposition to British Columbia's carbon tax reminds me of the story of the politician who, upon seeing an angry mob go by, turns to a friend an...
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Public Eye Online |
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Fronting the Fronters: Turnabout Is Fair Play!
The environmental group Greenpeace posed as a pro-coal organization to become a sponsor of the 2008 McCloskey Coal USA conference and deliver an anti-...
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Forget the Planet: Save the "Arbitrage Junkies"!
Carbon-trading systems will likely be a boon to lawyers, lobbyists and arbitrage junkies, a panel on emissions trading heard at the International Eco...
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Bush: Solar Plants Threaten Precious Desert Lands
Faced with a surge in the number of proposed solar power plants, the federal government has placed a moratorium on new solar projects on public land u...
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IKEA Touts Its Green Ways
Dabbler.ca writes about a new Canadian IKEA website, TheIKEAWay.ca. It's a website espousing and discussing about IKEA's environmental and CSR practi...
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Langley Township Council Meeting Report--Monday Afternoon, June 23, 2008
Notes from Langley Township Council's special meeting, Monday afternoon, June 23, 2008.Charlie Firman, deputy project manager for the Golden Ears Brid...
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Langley Politics Dotcom |
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Everyone complains about gas prices
but how many actually do much about it?This is just based on personal observation, not on anything I have read. Although there have been a plethora of...
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