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Jessica Wilson: We’re in the same boat now

By the time you read this, Shell’s famously defective oil spill containment dome, the Arctic Challenger, will have sailed through B.C.'s Inside Passage en route to Alaska.

Jessica Wilson: The people vs. oil

When it comes to Shell drilling for oil in the Arctic, the writing’s on the wall. A spill is inevitable.

Jessica Wilson: Tar sands no longer Canada’s dirty little secret

Europe and Scandinavia have been hit over the head with one tar sands scandal after another.

Jessica Wilson: Separating fiction from fact in the tar sands industry

In Canada, we have come to expect oil companies to, shall we say, fictionalize facts on a regular basis.

Jessica Wilson: Governments must not let tar sands industry monitor itself anymore

It’s been two years since the 1,600 infamous ducks landed on a tailings pond in the Alberta tar sands and died.

Jessica Wilson: Stephen Harper goes to Copenhagen as climate enemy number one

Blaming Canada has become more than a joking mantra; it has become the battle cry of environmentalists, journalists, students, politicians, authors, and scientists around the...

Jessica Wilson: Stephen Harper should show leadership or stay home from climate talks

While the rest of the world puts carbon cuts high on the political agenda in the lead up to the UN climate talks in Copenhagen, Canada is once again emerging as the worst house on...