Environment

The Weir-Jones Group, a Vancouver engineering firm specializing in early detection systems for earthquakes, landslides and oil and gas pipeline leaks, has joined the United Nations Disaster Risk Reduction Private Sector Partnership.

The Pacific Carbon Trust leaked confidential information while being audited and spent $6 million of public money on two large carbon-reduction projects that fail the government's own additionality test, Auditor General John Doyle concludes in his much-anticipated audit of B.C.'s carbon neutral government.

A potentially damning report by the auditor general on the provincial government's controversial carbon-neutrality policies is being withheld from the public, pending a probe into a breach of parliamentary procedure.

Approximately 200 people are participating in a symposium today through Wednesday to help develop a world-leading land-based spill prevention and response regime for B.C.

Coastal First Nations have fired back at Enbridge’s Northern Gateway media campaign with a two-minute video.

After going through a rigorous selection process that lasted several months, Vancouver was today named Global Earth Hour Capital 2013 by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) at a ceremony in Malmo, Sweden.

Two new coal mines proposed for Hudson’s Hope and Chetwynd could be the first projects in B.C. to get an environmental review by the province alone, rather than both the provincial and federal governments.

A fish processing plant in Richmond that is the first to be built under the city’s green roof design guidelines has begun operations, the company announced this week.

Leading environmental groups are urging the B.C. government to raise gasoline taxes, tweak the carbon tax and close tax loopholes to get more revenue out of industrial polluters as a way to generate $1 billion annually and create what they call the Better Future Fund.

If trash disposal is going to be made cheaper and more sustainable, engineering entrepreneurs need to first provide proof of concept before these solutions will be employed on a large scale