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Ben Parfitt: B.C.’s expansion of shale-gas fracking puts our water and...
Don’t believe the hype. British Columbia’s natural gas is far from the “clean,” “green,” “transitional” fuel that the energy industry and the provincial government claim. In fact, the shale gas...
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Ben Parfitt and Jesse Baltutis: B.C. must get serious about its water supply
In 2010, the South Peace Region, downstream from the massive W.A.C. Bennett Dam, was so arid that the province ordered natural-gas companies to temporarily halt their water withdrawals from local...
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Ben Parfitt: Sneaky Liberals are planning a B.C. forest giveaway
Given the short duration of the upcoming legislative session and the provincial election to follow, a government plan to introduce a scant two-paragraph bill granting it powers to fundamentally alter...
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Letters: Liberal ads, NDP ads, unions, Philip Hochstein, Ben Parfitt,...
Liberal ads bug me Although initially they didn’t bother me, I now feel uncomfortable as I continue to hear ad nauseam the holier-than-thou B.C. Liberal election ads. The ads, preaching about the evils...
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Letters: B.C. forests, Steve Thomson, Ben Parfitt, Bob Simpson, post office,...
Minister’s account is ‘pure fiction’ In response to Ben Parfitt’s op-ed about the B.C. Liberals’ intention to introduce legislation to rollover replaceable volume-based timber licenses to area-based...
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Ben Parfitt: Industry get credits, schoolyards get stumps
Picture a savvy land developer who has just bought 1,000 acres of forestland on a city’s outskirts. He plans to cut most of the trees down to build hundreds of new houses but wants to be able to...
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Ben Parfitt: B.C. is doing a lousy job of keeping track of our precious fresh...
Here’s a question that our provincial government ought to be able to answer but can’t: How much water is the world’s biggest bottled water seller withdrawing from wells in British Columbia? The...
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Anthony Britneff and Ben Parfitt: Return to old-school forest practices is...
More than 20 years ago, B.C. signalled to the world that sustainable development was a concept it took seriously. In the intervening years, the phrase became so over-used as to make people’s eyes...
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Letters: O Canada, food carts, forest practices, NDP leadership race, False...
At first, I didn’t like proposed anthem change As a third-generation, 46-year-old male Canadian, my first reaction to the suggestion of changing the national anthem to a more gender-neutral wording...
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Letters: water, forest licences, customer service, racism, speed limits,...
Not for sale Why do the B.C. Liberals not understand that there are some things in this province that should never be sold? The renewing of the Water Act after 100 years needs to reflect preservation....
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Letters: TransLink, transit, SkyTrain, senators, forests, land tenure, rapist
Hardly ‘world class’ Though I wasn’t caught by the SkyTrain system glitch, I do take issue with TransLink claiming to be “world-class” transportation. I spent 13 years using Toronto’s TTC, both bus and...
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Ben Parfitt: Conversation still needed about Liberals’ plan for forests
B.C. forests are the largest renewable asset that we have, a public resource shared with First Nations across the province. Whatever the fate may be of our non-renewable natural-gas resources, a topic...
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Ben Parfitt and David Hughes: Where will all the water come from for LNG?
One glaring problem with the provincial government’s strategy to turn B.C. into a LNG-exporting juggernaut is that it scuttles any chance B.C. has to be a climate-change leader. But equally...
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Letters: LNG tax, fracking, salt water, tax dollars, salt use, Abbotsford...
Don’t like tax? Don’t get our gas If the laughably low royalties proposed by the provincial government are too high for some oil-and-gas companies, they should walk away and leave the gas in the...
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Rich Coleman: Tough B.C. rules make fracking extremely safe
The claims and cautionary warnings in the op-ed on LNG and water use last week by Ben Parfitt and David Hughes are unfounded and inaccurate. British Columbia has been a leader in safe, responsible...
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