Margareta Dovgal urges Ottawa to back Canada’s resource strengths with better rules and approvals
Resource Works’ managing director told MPs that certainty and timely approvals are essential for Canada to seize the clean-energy moment.
Impact Assessment Act once again under fire
The Impact Assessment Act (IAA) faced opposition from Alberta, Ontario, and Saskatchewan for infringing on provincial jurisdiction, leading to a Supreme Court ruling that parts were unconstitutional and resulting in controversial amendments.
Big questions about net-zero
We’re still awaiting the rules and regulations that the federal government is drafting to execute its plan to achieve net-zero emissions in Canada by 2050. Industries and resource projects from coast to coast to coast know they will be compelled by 2050 to eliminate or offset greenhouse-gas emissions, but how?
Trans Mountain: Reflections on a polarizing decision
Ignorance is what I kept encountering in my quest to understand the validity of the opposition against Trans Mountain, says writer Paula Arab.
Tracking progress: B.C.’s low carbon industry initiative
Companies across the economy are leveraging technology, innovation, best practices and low-carbon energy resources to reduce their carbon footprint and provide low-carbon solutions to international customers in a carbon-constrained world.
Mountain caribou and the future of land access
What started as a government initiative to protect the mountain caribou has become a hot issue in rural British Columbia, with some residents concerned that traditional access to the backcountry is in jeopardy.
How Whispering Pines came to support the Trans Mountain pipeline
Chief Mike LeBourdais of the Whispering Pines/Clinton Indian Band relates the conversation he had with the CEO of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion project, Ian Anderson.
Environmental advocate urges scrapping professional reliance system
Forestry, mining and business groups were quick off the mark with strong criticisms of a British Columbia review calling for a costly overhaul of how foresters, geoscientists, engineers and other professionals are governed. Stewart Muir looks at the issue.
What good is environmental idealism anyways?
As I see it, writes Margareta Dovgal, the greatest challenge in facilitating a constructive dialogue across Canada on the role of natural resources is in bridging knowledge and perspective gaps.