The Government of British Columbia announced on Thursday that it is awarding the second instalment of $50 million provided by the federal government to projects that will clean up dormant oil and gas sites in [Read more]
Students in the Sooke School District, located just outside of Victoria, British Columbia, headed to school last week on the province’s inaugural fleet of electric school buses. “By shifting gears from diesel to electric school [Read more]
The government of British Columbia is investing $20.7 million in upgrading the province’s roadways under a plan dubbed the Climate Adaption Program. The program features a number of projects throughout BC that the government says [Read more]
Last August and September, the first cleanup project under the British Columbia Clean Coast, Clean Waters Initiative resulted in the removal of over 127 tonnes of marine debris from the province’s central coast and Queen [Read more]
CleanBC’s Go Electric programs will offer new rebates and supports for charging infrastructure to British Columbia municipalities and businesses building electric vehicle fleets. “We want to encourage more B.C. businesses, Indigenous Nations, municipalities and regional [Read more]
Rating: High school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews Joanna Kyriazis of Clean Energy Canada about Quebec’s decision to ban the sale of gasoline-powered cars by 2035. They also discuss other jurisdictions like California and the [Read more]
Rating: Advanced high school and post-secondary Summary: Markham interviews energy economist Ken Fellows, School of Public Policy at the University of Calgary, about the new study, “Energy & Environmental Policy Trends: Is the Site C [Read more]
This article by Pembina Institute was published in The Georgia Strait on Nov. 2, 2020. By Muneesh Sharma and Madi Kennedy With election day in the rear-view mirror, many British Columbians are looking to the [Read more]
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New regulations targeting the wholesale gasoline market will come into effect in British Columbia on Friday after an independent investigation discovered drivers in the province were being charged almost half a billion dollars in unexplainable [Read more]
3 things BC can do: independent agency, a lot more money, policy and regulatory changes The BC government’s decision last month to boost its support for electric vehicles by 400 per cent is a smart [Read more]
The BC government reports its Dormant Sites Reclamation program, a federal government funded project to clean up inactive and orphan wells, received over 1,100 applications and was almost fully subscribed on the first day it [Read more]
This article was published by the Canada Energy Regulator on May 20, 2020. The location of propane exports in Canada is changing. Increasingly, more volumes of propane are exported from British Columbia. In January 2020, [Read more]
By Tom-Pierre Frappé-Sénéclauze This article was published by Pembina Institute on May 8, 2020. As we do our part to flatten the curve on COVID-19, we’re spending much more time in our homes, juggling work with [Read more]
A research group from Simon Fraser University says BC First Nations should be able to provide clean energy to ratepayers across the province. The Clean Energy Research Group, or CERG, has made a submission to [Read more]
The government of British Columbia has brought in new legislation to help implement the province’s Fuel Price Transparency Act. The Fuel Price Transparency Act, or FPTA, “will allow the British Columbia Utilities Commission to collect [Read more]
The BC government has awarded a permit to advance the Fort Nelson geothermal project which could replace power currently generated from fossil fuels or imported from Alberta. The northern-most town in British Columbia, Fort Nelson [Read more]
By Karen Tam Wu This article was published by the Globe and Mail on Nov. 14, 2019. Governments across Canada have a habit of making climate promises, setting goals, then failing to achieve them. But [Read more]
The British Columbia government says the province is one step closer to rolling out legislation that would pilot projects to test new transportation technology. The Horgan government says upcoming changes to the BC Motor Vehicle [Read more]
As part of CleanBC, the government of British Columbia is partnering with BC Trucking Association to deliver the heavy duty vehicle efficiency program to help cut greenhouse gas emissions and cut their fuel costs. “Reducing [Read more]
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