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British Columbia
News
New BC regulations target wholesale gasoline market
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]
Markham on Energy
Get serious about EV manufacturing, British Columbia
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]
News
BC’s orphan well clean-up program nearly fully subscribed
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]
News
BC second largest exporter of propane behind Alberta
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]
Opinion
Deep retrofit of homes, buildings is the post COVID-19 megaproject Canada needs
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]
News
First Nations should be allowed to offer clean energy to BC ratepayers: SFU group
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]
News
BC legislation beefs up Fuel Price Transparency Act
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]
News
Permit granted to advance Fort Nelson geothermal project
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]
Opinion
Opinion: What’s missing from B.C.’s climate change legislation
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]