Environment

NATIONAL PULSE – Trans Mountain battle splits Canadians down the middle

February 22, 2018 // 1 Comment

Albertans are generally united on pipeline positions, the rest of Canada, including BC, is divided February 22, 2018 – While a war of words, political will, and even wine [Continue]

SUZUKI – We can’t keep closing our eyes to the facts of climate change

February 21, 2018 // 3 Comments

CONTRARY TO a common perception, ignoring climate change won’t make it disappear. Global research going back to 1824 in fields ranging through physics, oceanography, [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Would the 2010 railway-tie hysteria be different now?

February 17, 2018 // 0 Comments

BACK IN 2010, a man named Kim Sigurdson was the most unpopular man in Kamloops. Sigurdson had the temerity to propose a solution to a major environmental problem — the [Continue]

ENVIRONMENT – The plastic bag ban bandwagon is way off course

February 13, 2018 // 3 Comments

By LEE HARDING Research Associate Frontier Centre for Public Policy THE FISH in the movie Finding Nemo had made their great escape. After a far-fetched plan and an unlikely [Continue]

ENVIRONMENT – Electric autos well-intended but pose other problems

January 22, 2018 // 6 Comments

By JOSEPH QUESNEL Research Associate Frontier Centre for Public Policy IN THE PUSH to normalize electric vehicles, many forget it’s not the end of the road as far as [Continue]

SUZUKI – Large dams fail on climate change and Indigenous rights

January 19, 2018 // 2 Comments

BRAZIL HAS FLOODED large swaths of the Amazon for hydro dams, despite opposition from Indigenous Peoples, environmentalists and others. The country gets 70 per cent of its [Continue]