Environment

Metro Vancouver forum eyes high costs of living as threat to environmental goals

Two projects that received $6 million from the Pacific Carbon Trust dubbed ‘freeriders’ by John Doyle, whose report is slammed by environment minister

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.