Brenda Kenny: Pipeline regulation in Canada is public, comprehensive and far...
Pipeline regulators in Canada are in the midst of a series of important hearings and decision processes related to transmission pipeline applications – which have raised a number of questions about...
View ArticleMichael Burt: B.C. must act quickly to profit from LNG exports
Not long ago, many Canadians believed that our natural-gas industry was in permanent decline. The tide, however, is turning. British Columbia is well positioned to become the centre of Canada’s...
View ArticleLetters: Gregor, resource sector, tips, seniors, pensions, Tories, Site C,...
Mayor is no friend of working people Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson’s elitist war on B.C. resource industries is becoming more than a bit tiresome. Without energy, mining, logging, and other resource...
View ArticleLetters: Dan Miller, resource sector, Gregor Robertson, stoning, oilsands,...
Why are coal miners well paid? I wonder if former NDP premier Dan Miller sees the irony in his comments about teachers in his op-ed on Sunday. He suggests they have no right to ask for salary increases...
View ArticleE-Street: Given everything, do you think Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline...
Given everything, do you think Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline will ever be built? Why? I hope Enbridge will be built. We need the money it will bring to our economy. I hope the safety rules...
View ArticleDan Potts: Site C dam unlikely ever to be cost competitive
If B.C. decided to proceed with the construction of the hydroelectric generation dam at Site C, the lasting legacy will be one of wealth destruction. The huge cost of $7.9 billion to build the dam will...
View ArticleLetters: Health care, Dr. Brian Day, ferries, Granville Island, pipeline,...
U.S. care is best The opponents of private-health-care proponent Dr. Brian Day continue to refer to the U.S. style of health-care delivery. Now they have ObamaCare. What a huge success so far. Now,...
View ArticleLetters: Teachers’ dispute, dog abuse, multiculturalism, violence against...
Hey! You all work for the taxpayers! The latest information we have on the teachers’ dispute is that the B.C. government is going to dig in its heels on this one. Mediator Vince Ready cannot deal with...
View ArticleBob Simpson: Will B.C. gas the carbon tax to secure LNG?
Anyone with a smidgen of common sense should realize by now that B.C. is not going to generate a billion-dollar “Prosperity Fund” from liquefied natural gas. Hopefully, the premier will scrap that bit...
View ArticleE-Street: Do you support the provincial government’s plans to develop a...
No. —Sue Lakes Cook No. As usual, our naïve provincial government has set out rules/regulations for an industry that they know nothing about, including competitive rates and priorities. They have...
View ArticleGordienko, Hunt, Cochrane and Sigurdson: Environmentalists get facts wrong...
“I look at it from the perspective of the importance of coal…..in terms of employment, it’s huge here but I would remind city folk that it provides employment also for people in the Greater Vancouver...
View ArticleEditorial: Brooks is right, fuel surcharge should go
Dan Brooks, leader of the B.C. Conservative Party, is calling on the provincial government and B.C. Ferries to eliminate the fuel surcharge it imposes on travellers because the price of oil is...
View ArticleLetters: Chevron, Vision, Patti Bacchus, fundraising, TWU, law society,...
Why does Vision take money from developers, then? It is ironic that Vision Vancouver has no problem taking money from big developers and then imposing their projects on unhappy citizens but they get...
View ArticleEditorial: Bacchus bunch put ideology ahead of kids
“An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.” — H. L. Mencken, U.S. editor, author and columnist, (1880 —1956) Vision...
View ArticleVivian Krause: A vote for Vision is a vote for U.S. interests
Gregor Robertson opposes the expansion of a Kinder Morgan pipeline and makes this a central promise of his bid for re-election as Vancouver’s mayor. Robertson says that more oil tankers are too risky....
View ArticleEmma Gilchrist (UPDATED) : Vivian Krause’s real agenda is promoting fossil fuels
Vivian Krause enjoys spinning conspiracy theories, but it’s increasingly clear her agenda is to promote fossil fuels. Her argument that a drastic increase in oil exports is the most important economic...
View ArticleLetters: Site C, NDP, anarchy, Christy Clark, India, gas prices, transit tax,...
Another flip flop? It bemuses me how NDP leader John Horgan vehemently opposes the $8.8-billion Site C hydroelectric project announced Tuesday. Up until the announcement, his and the NDP’s opposition...
View ArticleJock Finlayson: Low oil prices, U.S. recovery are good for Canadians
The early weeks of 2015 have been a reminder that we live in a turbulent and risk-prone world. From plummeting oil prices to terrorist attacks in France, jittery stock markets, slowing growth in China...
View ArticleLetters: coal, TransLink, congestion tax, government spending, transit fares,...
Glad the truth about coal is getting out Re: Union leaders promote cleaner image for B.C. coal Union leaders speaking out on behalf of the coal industry and its workers are to be applauded, and the...
View ArticleLetters: TransLink, border delays, federal scientists, golf, bunkering ships,...
Replace TransLink with agency ‘that can produce results’ The Compass transit-pass system should have been in place in 2013. I cannot understand what the hold up is. We only get lame excuses from the...
View ArticleDermod Travis: We’re not getting the full story on B.C.’s push for LNG
You know that uneasy feeling you get in your gut when you realize that you might be getting played? Well, May 20 could turn out to be one of those days for B.C. Worlds apart — literally and...
View ArticlePodcast: In the House with Michael Smyth on B.C.’s controversial LNG deal
In this week’s podcast, Michael Smyth talks about the Christy Clark government’s controversial 25-year tax deal with the LNG industry. His guests are NDP jobs critic Shane Simpson and Liberal...
View ArticlePodcast: In the House with Michael Smyth and guest Martyn Brown on Christy...
In this week’s podcast, Michael Smyth interviews Martyn Brown, who criticizes Premier Christy Clark’s “sell-out” tax-and-royalty deal for the LNG industry. Brown is the former chief-of-staff to former...
View ArticleCody Battershill: New report confirms pipeline safety – again!
To the stack of reports showing pipelines are the safest way to transport liquid fuels over long distances, you can add yet another – this one from the prestigious Fraser Institute. The latest report,...
View ArticleBen Parfitt: Public review of natural gas projects is needed
Whether it’s mining, logging, dams or pipelines, the people living closest to resource industry developments typically face the highest health, economic and environmental risks. Such inequities will...
View ArticleIngrid Leman Stefanovic: Who pays for climate change is a tricky question
The New York State Attorney’s investigation into the possible liability of Exxon Mobil for climate change impacts hit the news earlier this month, raising a new twist to the “polluter pays” discussion....
View ArticleGordzilla in the City: Alberta NDP finally putting workers, jobs first
The New Democrats and, to a lesser extent, Liberal parties, have suffered for at least two decades from a sort of political schizophrenia. By that I don’t mean that they and their policies are nuts,...
View ArticleStewart Muir: Tremors from fracking are simply not a big deal
Should we be concerned about the safety of the British Columbia natural-gas industry because of a recent report on earthquakes? This is the lingering question following the news that in 0.3 per cent of...
View ArticleGordon Laxer: More pipelines aren’t needed to supply Canadians
Would leaving much of Canada’s oil in the soil prop up Saudi Arabia’s odious dictatorship? That’s Joseph Maloney’s far-fetched case against the Leap Manifesto in his op-ed Friday. The boilermakers...
View ArticleLetters: Komogata Maru apology, immigrants, taxes, Sen. Art Eggleton,...
Home countries should apologize, not Canada Re: Komagata Maru apology. It’s interesting that nobody thinks to approach their country of birth for an apology because it was not able to provide them with...
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