Sustainability Suspicions

It never ceases to amaze me that some people can be so utterly certain about the right answer to questions that don’t have simple answers....

In 5 years, debates about BC’s carbon tax have generated much heat and little light, but Stewart Elgie and Jessica McClay of the...

Why is Alberta’s policy a regulation and not a tax? Alberta’s government officially says it doesn’t have a carbon tax, and I a...

Here is a link to  my brief report written in 2011 entitled " BC’s Carbon Neutral Public Sector:  Too Good to be True?"  explaini...

In my March 15, 2013 op-ed in the Vancouver Sun  I described how promoters of carbon polluting investments and their allies avoi...

by Mark Jaccard Originally published in The Vancouver Sun March 15, 2013 Over the past year, readers of The Vancouver Sun have been bom...

Media tycoon David Black says he wants to protect the B.C. marine environment he loves from an oil spill that could result from tankers shi...

British Columbia, where I live, will have a provincial election in May 2013. By a strange set of circumstances, BC voters have a rare opport...

by Mark Jaccard Originally published in  The Vancouver Sun February 16, 2012 People who profit from an expanding fossil fuel indust...

By Mark Jaccard Originally published in The Vancouver Sun , January 25 2012 As a sustainable energy researcher, I have been inundated wit...

By Mark Jaccard Originally published in the  Vancouver Sun  August 23, 2011 The recent report by the panel reviewing BC Hydro's elect...

By Mark Jaccard Originally published in the  Vancouver Sun  June 9, 2011 British Columbia politics in 2010 were dominated by accusations ...

By Mark Jaccard Originally published in the  Vancouver Sun  July, 2011 On June 30, the B.C. government announced it had become “carbon ne...