Ben Parfitt

Such an inquiry should not be limited to scientific questions, but should focus squarely on the risks associated with fracking and what should be done about them.

With nearly 90 per cent of all new gas wells in B.C. fracked, how much of our water might be used and contaminated as natural gas drilling escalates?

Christy Clark's B.C. government is set to gamble everything on liquified natural gas (LNG) -- but everything in the international fossil fuels market is about to change

The B.C. government, First Nations and environmental organizations alike have all hailed it as an ecological triumph and a shining beacon of a new economic order based on conservation principles.

Premier Christy Clark announced before an audience of business leaders in Vancouver that her government would declare natural gas a "clean" fuel if the gas in question was used to power up LNG plants.

For more than a quarter century, logging companies at the government's blessing have been on a tear through British Columbia's expansive interior forests.

Here's the little that we know about a pipeline break that occurred more than half a year ago and that British Columbia's Oil and Gas Commission feels the public is best kept in the dark about.

It took just a week following the airing of an "interview" on CBC's The Lang & O'Leary Exchange for the ombudsman to rule that the public broadcaster's journalistic standards had been breached.

Is aggressive marketing of the lowest value of all forest products -- raw logs -- along with growing shipments of low-value commodity lumber products to China a wise move for B.C.'s forest industry?

It has been a year since word began to percolate in the Hudson's Hope area that Talisman Energy Inc. was eyeing the Williston Reservoir as a long-term source of water.