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PR Would Elect BC Governments That Better Reflect the Will of the People
In northern Cascadia, BC voters will soon vote on a referendum to use Proportional Representation to help ensure Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) better reflect the will of the voters. BC’s current electoral method—single-winner ridings with first-past-the-post ballots—has been distorting the will of the voters for decades. BC’s election history highlights the well-known flaws of archaic first-past-the-post voting. In the past five decades, BC elections often put power in...Read more » -
Giant LNG Project Fails in BC
In late July, Malaysian oil giant Petronas shelved its plans to build a large liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility at Lelu Island, south of Port Edward, British Columbia. Its Pacific NorthWest LNG proposal was one of seven LNG proposals clustered in the vicinity of Prince Rupert. The $36 billion project would have produced 18 million metric tons of LNG per year, making it three times as large as Oregon’s...Read more » -
BC Wants to Produce Four Times as Much LNG as World’s Largest Exporter
Even now that Shell has announced its decision to discontinue further development on the Prince Rupert LNG project, there are still nineteen LNG export proposals pending in British Columbia. Five of the proposals are on the Salish Sea, four are clustered at Kitimat, six near Prince Rupert, and another four are proposed north of Prince Rupert. While the sheer number of proposals is striking (Washington and Oregon combined have seen...Read more » -
Maps: The 16 LNG Proposals Vying for BC’s Shores
Editor’s note: The report below is an updated version of the original report published in March 2017. Since this report was first published, four BC liquefied natural gas projects have been cancelled. Sixteen LNG proposals are still standing—but most of them are standing still. Over the past few years, Oregon and Washington fended off several proposals to build enormous fracked fuel and petrochemical terminals on their respective coasts. But just...Read more » -
2019 Update: Mapping BC’s LNG Proposals
Editor’s note: The report below is the second update of an original Sightline report published in March 2017. Over the past decade, Oregon and Washington have fended off several proposals to build enormous fracked fuel and petrochemical terminals on their coasts. But just to the north, British Columbia’s political leaders have taken the opposite tack, sending out a siren song to attract liquefied natural gas (LNG) investors to the province’s...Read more » -
Sprawl and Smart Growth in Greater Vancouver, BC
Just released: Sightline’s analysis of smart growth trends in Greater Vancouver, BC. We crunched Canadian census data from 1991 through 2006, looking in particular at residential development trends in BC’s lower mainland. The good news: pedestrian-oriented development is going gangbusters in the city of Vancouver itself, along with a few of the municipalities just outside the city. Given the economic burden that’s being created by rising gas prices—let alone the...Read more » -
Sprawl and Smart Growth in Greater Vancouver, BC
Vancouver, BC’s smart-growth leadership has slipped in recent years. This time-lapse map shows the growing sprawl.Read more » -
Can We Go Beyond Car Primacy—To Policymaking that Serves People and Places First?
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Voter Participation Jumped When Alaska Opened Its Primaries
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Alaska’s open primary flipped the campaign script