The proposed environmental assessment of the Enbridge Gateway oilsands pipeline falls short, according to an analysis released today by the Pembina Institute.

Media Contact: Karen Campbell

Topic Area: British Columbia: Other

Canada's six largest urban areas must do more to promote green urban design and low-carbon transportation choices.

Media Contact: Alison Bailie

Topic Area: British Columbia: Climate Change

Karen Campbell, Staff Counsel for the Pembina Institute, made the following statement in response to the B.C. government's plan to move forward with the Site C dam project.

Media Contact: Karen Campbell

Topic Area: British Columbia: Climate Change, British Columbia: Other

Matt Horne, Director of British Columbia Energy Solutions for the Pembina Institute, made the following statement in response to B.C. Hydro's decision to sign electricity purchase agreements with 19 new wind and run-of-river electricity projects:

"Today's announcement highlights the potential for clean and renewable electricity projects in B.C., while also foreshadowing the challenges that the province needs to confront if resources like wind and run-of-river are going to be developed in the public interest."

Media Contact: Matt Horne

Topic Area: British Columbia: Climate Change, British Columbia: Other

Matt Horne, Director of British Columbia Energy Solutions for the Pembina Institute, made the following statement in response to the British Columbia budget tabled today:

"Fresh off the Olympics, British Columbians were looking for big strides toward a clean energy economy. But continued carbon tax loopholes combined with oil and gas subsidies amount to a near $700 million lost opportunity in these investments."

Media Contact: Matt Horne

Topic Area: British Columbia: Climate Change

The B.C. government should strengthen its carbon tax in the 2010 budget, according to a set of recommendations released by the Pembina Institute.

Media Contact: Matt Horne

Topic Area: British Columbia: Climate Change, British Columbia: Other

Environmental assessment of proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline will ignore the impacts of increased oil sands production

Media Contact: Karen Campbell, Simon Dyer

Topic Area: British Columbia: Other

Matt Horne, Director of the Pembina Institute's British Columbia Energy Solutions Program, made the following statement in response to the City of Vancouver's announcement that it is on track to meet its 2010 emissions reduction targets (six per cent below 1990 levels):

"Pembina applauds Vancouver's climate progress, which demonstrates that successful efforts to reduce greenhouse gas pollution go hand in hand with economic opportunity."

Media Contact: Matt Horne

Topic Area: British Columbia: Climate Change

In its environmental review of the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline project, the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency will not be considering the major environmental impacts of the 30 per cent increase in average daily oil sands output that the pipeline will enable.

Media Contact: Karen Campbell

Topic Area: British Columbia: Climate Change

The proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines pose serious risks to salmon, according to a new report commissioned by the Pembina Institute. Pipelines and Salmon in Northern British Columbia: Potential Impacts, examines how pipeline construction and operations could affect salmon and salmon habitat.

Media Contact: Karen Campbell

Topic Area: British Columbia: Mining, British Columbia: Other

Matt Horne, Director of British Columbia Energy Solutions for the Pembina Institute, made the following statement in response to the British Columbia budget tabled today:

"The province missed an opportunity to continue building British Columbia's green economy in today's provincial budget. Instead of enhancing efforts to encourage greener choices and investments, the budget sends mixed signals on the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and maintains a reliance on unpredictable fossil fuel resource revenues."

Media Contact: Matt Horne

Topic Area: British Columbia: Climate Change, British Columbia: Other