The Great Bear: worth more alive than dead
By Briony Penn, January 2015Will adventure tourism and forest stewardship trump logging, pipelines and hunting in the Great Bear Rainforest?The Canadian Embassy in Beijing recently opened its doors to...
View ArticleBC's expensive salmon farms
By Briony Penn, March 2015The federal government seems intent on propping up corporate fish farming despite the high costs.On the afternoon of February 10, a whale watching boat docked at Port McNeill,...
View ArticleLori and Goliath
By Briony Penn, May 2015A scientific communicator takes on big oil and its so-called regulator.When the Burrard oil spill started seeping onto English Bay beaches in April, the backstory of the oil...
View ArticlePoetic justice
By Briony Penn, June 2015A sense of humour and humility are essential as settlers wade into the rich intertidal zone of decolonization.The gathering of #1 seaweed, LEKES in the Coast Salish SENCOTEN...
View ArticleWar in the Woods II ?
By Briony Penn, July/August 2015Eight planned cutblocks in the Walbran are raising the temperature among those concerned about BC’s old-growth forests.In 1991, Western Canada Wilderness Committee (WC2)...
View ArticleSonora Island old-growth forests to feed pensioners?
By Brioney Penn, September 2015Owned by government pension plans, TimberWest appears set to ignore a Forest Practices Board finding about its logging on the island.It’s taken six years, but just about...
View ArticleLegislated voter suppression
By Briony Penn, October 2015The Unfair Election Act is coming soon—very soon—to a polling station near you.In September 2, Chief Councillor of Tseshaht First Nations Hugh Braker QC made a phone call to...
View ArticleCermaq v. the people
By Briony Penn, November 2015The rise and fall of fish farming in Ahousaht territory.Qaamina Hunter starts our telephone conversation by telling me I’ve reached the general store in Ahousat village. I...
View Article100 days of destruction
By Briony Penn, December 2015BC Hydro accused of divide-and-conquer tactics among Peace River Valley First Nations.BC Hydro’s press release, announcing the Site C dam startup, called it One Hundred...
View Article100 percent pure what?
By Briony Penn, January 2016Most of New Zealand has been deforested due to agriculture, impacting biodiversity, water quality and the climate.It is midnight and I am out with my brother in a rare patch...
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Trans Mountain opponents get boost from feds
By Briony Penn, February 2016How the National Energy Board found itself under attack by everyone in January.JANUARY 2016 WAS full of news around Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline. As dozens of...
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Unlikely allies in a complex ecosystem
By Briony Penn, March 1, 2016Reflections on the Great Bear Rainforest Agreement cannot leave out Chief Qwatsinas.WITH AN ASSIGNMENT TO SUM UP the Great Bear Rainforest Agreement in 1500 words, I...
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Fighting for the Salish Sea
By Briony Penn, May 2016With 18 large port expansion projects around the Salish Sea, how’s an ecosystem to survive the influx of tanker traffic?SALT SPRING ISLAND is smack dab in the centre of the...
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New calls for a moratorium on old-growth logging
By Briony Penn, July 2016Business interests, scientists, environmental groups and First Nations call for new policy on the Island’s remaining old growth.WHEN THE BC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE and the...
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Professional reliance experiment a regulatory failure?
By Briony Penn, September 2016Tourism operators on the coast have been forced to watchdog forestry operations since government introduced self-monitoring.JOHNSTONE STRAIT, around Robson Bight, is one...
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