British Columbians shortchanged billions from fossil fuel industry revenues
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Ben Parfitt | May 31, 2018
Earlier this year, Premier John Horgan announced that the British Columbia government was prepared to offer billions of dollars in tax breaks to Royal Dutch Shell should the global fossil fuel giant build a massive liquefied natural gas plant on our province’s north coast. Absent from the news then, however, was any mention of how …
Trudeau government justification for purchasing Trans Mountain project based on false premises
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David Hughes | May 30, 2018
So how sound are the claims being used to justify the federal government’s expenditure of up to $12 billion in taxpayer funds to purchase Kinder-Morgan’s Trans Mountain expansion (TMX) project? The Trudeau government says the purchase is in the ‘national interest’, will create thousands of jobs, and that delays in the project are costing Canada …
Threatened caribou further endangered: Suppressed audit shows Oil and Gas Commission undermining provincial efforts to save species
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Ben Parfitt | May 28, 2018
On an April morning in 2014, members of the Fort Nelson First Nation tucked into a helicopter to begin a day of flying to fossil fuel company operations in their territory. The Nation’s lands are part of the expansive Treaty 8 territory that includes northeast British Columbia. A professional biologist from Fort St. John was …
A Prairie Patchwork: Reliance on oil industry philanthropy in Saskatchewan boom towns
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Simon Enoch and Emily Eaton | May 28, 2018
When we think of a “boom town,” we often imagine a formerly sleepy rural town suddenly awash in wealth and economic expansion. It might surprise some to learn that for many municipalities in oil-producing regions in Saskatchewan, the costs of servicing the oil boom can outweigh the benefits. Instead, as Simon Enoch and Emily Eaton …
