Trudeau’s Smoke and Mirrors on Carbon Tax and Pipeline Claims that increasing oilsands production will lead to lower emissions simply false. By Mitchell Anderson TheTyee.ca Mitchell Anderson is a freelance writer based in Vancouver and a frequent contributor to The Tyee. Rachel Notley and Justin Trudeau claim ‘that carbon pricing — a laudable policy goal — will…
BC Government Withheld Information on Dangers of Unregulated Fracking Dams Despite risks, managers refused to provide information as election loomed. By Ben Parfitt TheTyee.ca Ben Parfitt is a resource policy analyst with the BC office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. His recent research for the CCPA is published here. Despite criticism for failing to warn about…
Unauthorized Fracking Dam Problem Growing At least 92 dams built without approval; safety risks feared. Part 1 of a series. By Ben Parfitt 29 Mar 2018 | TheTyee.ca Ben Parfitt is a resource policy analyst with the BC office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. His recent research for the CCPA is published here. Swamp Donkey dam was…
A Dam(n) Big Fracking Problem Regulators left behind as industry built dozens of unauthorized dams — many at risk of failure. By Ben Parfitt 18 Dec 2017 | TheTyee.ca Ben Parfitt is a resource policy analyst with the BC office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. His recent research for the CCPA is published here. The province’s Environmental Assessment…
Confirmed: Russian government itself was the election hacker, communicated with Trump campaign about it Donald Trump and the Russian government can deny it all they want, but now we finally have confirmation of what we’ve all long ago come to suspect: it was the Russian government who hacked the Democratic National Committee during the…
There are many good reasons why Donald Trump should be removed from office: collusion with the Russians, corruption, obstruction of justice, influence peddling and a host of other unsavory criminal activities from the grand to the petty. But let us step back for a moment and consider that there may be another reason, perhaps the…
Bloodthirsty Donald Trump has psychotic meltdown about guns Donald Trump spent a few moments Feb. 21, 2018, pretending to care about the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting and its victims, and even then he needed the aid of a cue card with simple empathetic responses written on it along the lines of…
The Oil Party Is Over, Trudeau — Even Canada’s Energy Firms Know It Why are corporations more candid about industry’s realities than our prime minister? By Ross Belot 18 Jul 2017 | iPolitics This column first appeared in the always excellent iPolitics. Ross Belot is a retired senior manager with one of Canada’s…
Why the Oilsands Era Is Over Carbon pricing and low energy costs spell economic doom for Alberta megaprojects. By Ian Hussey 15 Feb 2018 | TheTyee.ca Ian Hussey is a political economist at the University of Alberta’s Parkland Institute, and a steering committee member and the Alberta research manager for the SSHRCC-funded Corporate Mapping Project. Syncrude’s oilsands processing plant.…
Only Fantasies, Desperation and Wishful Thinking Keep Pipeline Plans Alive There is no waiting Asian market for oilsands crude. In fact there’s no waiting market anywhere. By Mitchell Anderson , is a freelance writer based in Vancouver and a frequent contributor to The Tyee. “The bottom has already fallen out of many bitumen projects yet they stagger on,…
