Chris Hatch

Christopher Hatch is a commentator, editor and key business strategist for National Observer.

Email: Chris[at]nationalobserver.com

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By Chris Hatch in Analysis, Politics | March 2nd 2019

Quebec oil stats undermine Canada's denial brigade

We’ve heard it time and again. The argument that Quebec has no business touting itself as a climate leader when it’s dependent on Saudi oil. But the argument simply isn’t true, according to the latest numbers.

Opinion

Race Against Climate Change

By Chris Hatch in Opinion, Energy | November 14th 2018

Jay Rosen illustration from his Twitter page

Jay Rosen on CBC Bolsonaro story: 'The framing of the story was amoral'

Although the public broadcaster has shifted its tone slightly, the original article stands and the criticism keeps mounting.

Opinion

By Chris Hatch in Opinion | October 30th 2018

Fascism is a 'fresh opportunity' Seriously, CBC?

In response to Brazil's election of a wildly neo-fascist president, CBC News is glowing about new opportunities for Canadian mining companies in devastating the Amazon.

Opinion

By Chris Hatch & Linda Solomon Wood in Opinion | October 29th 2018

British Columbians want electric cars but just try finding one

One-in-three British Columbians expect to buy an electric car as their next vehicle, but they’re going to have trouble finding one.

Race Against Climate Change

By Chris Hatch in News, Energy | October 17th 2018

There are now over 10 million jobs in renewable energy

Asia is leading the global surge in renewable energy jobs. In 2017, the renewable energy industry broke a symbolic threshold, employing over 10 million people, according to the International Renewable Energy Association's latest research.

By Chris Hatch in News, Energy, Politics | May 9th 2018

Tsleil-Waututh member Will George stands on the shores of the Burrard Inlet in Burnaby, B.C. on Feb. 7, 2018, near the terminal for Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline. Photo by Jennifer Osborne

After 172 arrests, Kinder Morgan blockades pause for ceremony

Indigenous Watch House guardian Will George called for a pause in blockades and a "week of ceremony" after 172 people were arrested over the past week blockading Kinder Morgan's pipeline terminal in Burnaby B.C.

Trans Mountain

By Chris Hatch in News, Energy | March 26th 2018

Green Party leader Elizabeth May, MP Kennedy Stewart arrested blockading Kinder Morgan

Green Party leader Elizabeth May and NDP MP Kennedy Stewart were arrested blockading Kinder Morgan's pipeline terminal in Burnaby B.C. on Friday.

Trans Mountain

By Chris Hatch in News, Energy, Politics | March 23rd 2018

Spill near Vancouver. Is the cosmos messing with Trudeau and Notley?

The cosmos must be messing with Justin Trudeau and Rachel Notley. Just as the Kinder Morgan pipeline controversy surges to fever pitch over oil spill impacts, a barge near Vancouver has sunk, spilling diesel into the ocean in the territory of the Squamish Nation.

Opinion

By Chris Hatch in Opinion | February 1st 2018

Steve Katz with Linda Solomon Wood on practicing journalism in the time of Trump

How well do you understand the damage to our collective psyches by Donald Trump's "chaos-based" government? Steve Katz, publisher of Mother Jones, gave National Observer subscribers an account from the front lines of American journalism at the kickoff event in the "Urgent Conversations" series, held Nov. 16 in Vancouver.

State of Journalism

By Jorge Amigo & Chris Hatch in News | November 20th 2017