Climate Change

03/10/25
Author: 
Ben Parfitt
A section of the Kiskatinaw River running dry just upstream of the old Highway 97 trestle bridge between Fort St. John and Dawson Creek. Photo for The Tyee by Don Hoffmann.

Sept. 26, 2025

Parched, the city has proposed piping water in. And selling it to the very industry some say caused the problem.

After three years of drought, the City of Dawson Creek has reached a dangerous tipping point as the Kiskatinaw River, its only drinking water source, falls to levels never before seen.

03/10/25
Author: 
John Woodside
Catherine McKenna on stage at an event at the UN climate summit COP27. Photo via UNFCCC Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Sept. 24, 2025

Catherine McKenna isn’t buying the potential grand bargain being discussed between fossil fuel companies and the federal government.

01/10/25
Author: 
Zoë Yunker
A flaring stack at the LNG Canada plant in Kitimat. Production there will exceed Canadian guidelines for nitrogen dioxide. Photo via BC Energy Regulator.

Sept. 24, 2025

The project’s fast-tracked second phase would push a key pollutant far above current limits, documents reveal.

Nicknamed the “Eye of Sauron” by Kitimat residents, the flare from LNG Canada frequently engulfs the town in black, hydrocarbon-filled smoke, sometimes reaching the height of a 30-storey building. Last week, a resident reported to city council that his yard has smelled like burnt plastic.

17/09/25
Author: 
Shannon Waters and Matt Simmons
B.C. has approved the Ksi Lisims LNG liquefied natural gas export project, which will be built near the Nisga'a village of Gingolx. Photo: Marty Clemens / The Narwhal

Sept. 15, 2025 (Updated Sept. 16, 2025)

 

B.C. environment and energy ministers just gave the green light to Ksi Lisims, a project capable of producing almost as much as LNG Canada’s first phase. Concerns remain about the environmental impacts of the project

The B.C. government has just approved the Ksi Lisims liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility, which will produce up to 12 million tonnes of LNG annually by 2028. 

09/09/25
Author: 
Kyle Bakx
Trans Mountain is moving quicker to increase the amount of oil its pipeline system can transport from Alberta to British Columbia's coast. (Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press)

Sept. 4, 2025

Why Trans Mountain wants to expand when the oil pipeline isn't even full

Pipeline is operating at about 80%, while tankers are only 70% full

A little more than one year after completing construction of the Trans Mountain expansion oil pipeline, the Crown corporation is pursuing two different methods to increase how much oil can be exported.

The move comes at a time when the pipeline still isn't operating at full capacity.

30/08/25
Author: 
Natasha Bulowski
A person uses an umbrella for shade as they walk on Parliament Hill in Ottawa in June, 2024. Advocates say that the potential impacts of climate change on Canadian retirement plans has been understated by the country's chief actuary. Photo by: Sean Kilpatrick / The Canadian Press

Aug. 28, 2025

The federal office tasked with ensuring the long-term health of Canadians’ pensions is underestimating one of the biggest threats to people’s retirement plans — climate change, says an advocacy group. 

The Office of the Chief Actuary (OCA) is failing to capture the financial risks of climate change in its long-term assessments of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and other public funds, warned advocacy group Shift: Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health in an email to Chief Actuary Assia Billig early this morning. 

30/08/25
Author: 
Derek Seidman
Climate activists rally outside Bank of America Tower in Midtown Manhattan as part of the March to End Fossil Fuels on September 19, 2023. Erik McGregor / LightRocket via Getty Images

Aug. 25, 2025

Big banks across the world are substantially increasing their financing of the fossil fuel industry, including for the industry’s expansion during a time of intensifying climate crisis, all while pulling back from previously stated climate commitments.

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