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.
About a year ago, a wildfire in Jasper prompted a mass exodus from the town. More than 25,000 residents evacuated from their alpine home before a third of its buildings burned. It’s a stark example of the reality most municipalities are grappling with across Canada — that more floods, fires and smoke are here, exacerbated by emissions they have little local control over.
Two legal challenges filed in British Columbia claim a liquefied natural gas pipeline hasn't been "substantially started," contrary to a decision made by the provincial government back in June.
Petitions filed in B.C. Supreme Court last week allege the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission natural gas pipeline project has been given the green-light by the B.C. Environment Ministry to go ahead without requiring a new environmental assessment certificate, which was first granted in 2014.
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.
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.
Big tech companies continue to spend massive amounts of money building ever more powerful generative AI (artificial intelligence) systems and ever larger data centers to run them, all the while losing billions of dollars with no likely pathway to profitability. And while it remains to be seen how long the companies and their venture capital partners will keep the money taps open, popular dislike and distrust of big tech and its AI systems are rapidly growing.
