Writer and artist Geoff Olson has provided incisive cultural and political commentary and provocative, witty cartoons every week to the Courier for more than two decades.
During a recent public meeting on "fracking" at the Vancouver Public Library, a brief moment of irony broke the sober mood in the room. Ben Parfitt, resource policy analyst for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, was discussing B.C.'s abundant fresh water and hydroelectric power-and the shale gas industry's immense thirst for both-when a cellphone went off in the audience.