PHOTO: Climate protesters disrupt Harper’s Vancouver Board of Trade event
Photo published in The Vancouver Observer | Circulation: 150,000 unique monthly visitors
Category Archives: Vancouver Observer
The Vancouver Observer is an online news site based in Vancouver, B.C. As full-time staff reporter and photographer, my work was among the winning submissions for the publication’s 2012 Canadian Journalism Foundation Excellence in Journalism Award. VO was also awarded the 2010 Canadian Online Publishing Award for “Best Online-Only Articles.”
Unpaid fines, leaks and spills at volumes beyond worst case scenarios for Enbridge Inc.
A withering report by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board was notEnbridge’s only oil spill challenge in the summer of 2012.
Enbridge’s pipeline spills, PR headaches and corporate history
You’ve heard the names. You’ve seen the headlines. But what, exactly, is Enbridge – the key player behind Canada’s most controversial industrial proposal?
Happy New Year: Stories of 2012
Here’s a look back over some of my key stories of the last year.
Book: Extract – The Pipeline Wars (Vol. I: Enbridge)
Chapter on Enbridge’s Kalamazoo River oil spill disaster.
Photo: City calls on Port Metro Vancouver to delay coal export expansion
Mayor Gregor Robertson has called for more consultation regarding coal transports through Metro Vancouver, citing the impact of coal on climate change and of coal dust on human health, agriculture and marine life.
Photo: Secret committee meetings harm Canadian democracy, say critics
NDP MP Nathan Cullen, a member of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs, called the killing of Liberal MP Marc Garneau’s motion to study the limits of omnibus bills in the committee a “mockery of Parliament.”
Photo: BC “not for sale” to Enbridge Northern Gateway, say aboriginal and former government leaders
The head of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs said that selling BC’s coast and rivers is not the way Premier Clark should be fighting against Alberta’s oil agenda at a press conference today with leaders from BC’s municipal and environmental groups.
Photo: Jason Kenney tells war veteran daughter: soldiers were “heroes,” but not Canadian citizens
Citizenship Minister Jason Kenney told Jackie Scott, the daughter of a Canadian war veteran, that her father – and others serving the country – technically weren’t Canadian at the time they were fighting for their country. Photo by David P. Ball
Exclusive: Ex-Pickton worker echoes lawyer allegations of police cover-up
Co-winning submission, Canadian Journalism Foundation 2012 Excellence in Journalism Award (small media). Describing a ‘turning, wrenching feeling,’ would-be police informant Bill Hiscox reveals to VO what it was like on serial killer Robert ‘Willie’ Pickton’s farm.
David P Ball 