Most historians and archaeologists believe that the First Peoples to arrive in North America came down the West Coast on what they now call the “kelp highway.” The review paper “The First Americans” was published this week in the prestigious journal Science. Evidence from archaeological sites from the British Columbia coast to the southern tip […]
Iron and steel in hatcheries, including rebar supporting concrete structural elements, could be distorting the ability of salmon and trout to navigate using the earth's magnetic fields according to a study released today by Oregon State University. The exposure to iron and steel distorts the magnetic field around the young fish, affecting the fish's “map […]
Supporters of David Black's Kitimat Clean project to build a refinery about 25 kilometres north of Kitimat have been met by skepticism by experts and economists from the Canadian oil patch who keep telling the people of northwestern British Columbia that to create jobs by adding value to Alberta crude is uneconomic. The Americans, apparently, […]
What is it about the islands in Douglas Channel? First, Enbridge gets in to a lot of hot water, so to speak, for erasing the islands in Douglas Channel in an animation promoting the Northern Gateway Pipeline. See for example The Vancouver Sun on back on Aug. 16, 2012, when it picked up a story […]
Energy The Kitimat LNG projects have been added to a conference on LNG exports in Houston, Texas on December 1. Zeus Events, the commercial organizer of the conference tweeted this morning "Kitimat #LNG Export project added to N. American LNG Exports conference." The conference agenda describes the presentation this way: Kitimat LNG Export Project Update […]