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Ben Parfitt: The campaign to discredit the B.C. auditor general's report on carbon neutrality

For months, vested interests in government and the private sector have known that a damning report was in the offing by B.C.’s outgoing auditor general, John Doyle.

Ben Parfitt: Government plan for B.C. forest giveaway is lunacy

Perhaps the most disturbing aspect of such a fundamental change on the eve of a provincial election is that the government leaves unaddressed the most evident problems.

Karena Shaw and Ben Parfitt: Get the fracking facts on shale gas in B.C.

Natural gas is not and never has been a clean fuel.

Ben Parfitt: B.C. forestry missing out on great green job potential

The problem is that the province’s focus has been on market diversification as opposed to product diversification.

Ben Parfitt: What the frack is happening in B.C.'s Peace Region?

In British Columbia’s Peace River region, farming families and First Nations are witnessing an unprecedented rush on water resources, a rush driven by energy corporations that...

Ben Parfitt: New response to pine beetle needed in B.C. forests

In the fight against climate change, few natural assets are as important as forests.

Faraway food production

High energy and land costs raise the stakes for B.C. farmers.

Government pours money into shutting down toxic-waste renegade

The B.C. Environment Ministry has spent nearly a million dollars cleaning up the mess left by Ed Ilnicki, but that's just the tip of the iceberg as the ministry tries to bring...

The sin of air travel

Airlines have created programs to offset emissions, but the rising popularity of flying could wipe out any gains.

Untracked toxic waste seeps out of sight

This is a story about how British Columbia’s system for tracking hazardous wastes is badly broken. About how, in the space of a few short years, our government has seemingly lost...