What we’re reading and listening to

• The National Observer’s new podcast ‘Beyond Ecological Grief‘ examines the psychological and spiritual toll of the climate and planetary health crisis. Episode 1 introduces us to ecological grief through the flooding of the Peace Valley for the Site C dam. Each subsequent episode looks at a different stage of grief – Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance – through a different story of ecological loss.
• Why Logging Isn’t the Solution to B.C.’s Wildfire Crisis by Ben Parfitt. Read it in The Tyee. 
• The Heiltsuk First Nation was in the UK seeking compensation 9 years after a fuel spill in their territory. This is an important story highlighting international liability when it comes to Indigenous environmental and cultural losses. Read it in Global News. 
• LNG Canada burned 350 million cubic metres of gas in 2025, more than the estimated highest source of LNG flaring emissions in the world in 2024. The high levels of flaring call into question environmental claims made about the facility, which government officials have repeatedly said produces the cleanest LNG in the world. Ongoing problems at the plant, which hopes to double production by building a second phase, could persist for three to five years. Read more in The Narwhal. 
• BC Must Stop Blaming First Nations for Old-Growth Logging. Instead of subsidizing logging, the province should follow experts’ advice and pay nations to conserve forests. Read this analysis in The Tyee. 
• The Forest Quietly Removed from BC’s Old-Growth Deferral List. Most of Vancouver Island has been logged. Now, one of the last ancient forests, in the Tsitika River watershed, is on the chopping block. Also published in The Tyee. 
• The B.C. government continues to accelerate old growth liquidation instead of old growth protection. As pulp mill and sawmill jobs plummet in number, British Columbia’s Forests Ministry is opening the door to more exports of unprocessed logs, including those produced from trees cut down in old-growth forests. Another great piece in The Tyee.
• The next project of national interest should not require allocating billions in more taxpayer dollars for another LNG project, but provide the investment needed to rapidly scale up Canada’s solar, geothermal and wind production and clean electricity capabilities. These industries are more likely to produce the jobs and income Canadians need as the oil and gas sectors sunset. Read this great op-ed by Andy Hira in The Globe and Mail.