Biofuels Are a Bad Way to Fight Climate Change

On the surface, biofuels sound like a great idea. Using waste biomass to generate power sounds like a win-win-win proposition: you generate power without incurring an environmental cost, and as a bonus the power is expected to be carbon neutral. In British Columbia 20...

Quebec supports 12-storey wood construction

Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard along with the Minister of Labour, Sam Hamad, recently announced the publication of a wood building construction guide using mass timber called “Construction of Mass Timber Buildings Up to 12 Storeys.” The guide, meant to inform and...

Death and life in the wildfire zone

I am back from a week on the fire line, covering the savage Rock Creek fire. It was a welcome change from covering the city, and it got me out into the country, even if it seems like half of the province is on fire. After covering the human aspects of the Rock Creek...