Wilderness Committee

Wilderness Committee mourns the passing of Gwen Barlee

VANCOUVER — The Wilderness Committee is deeply saddened by the passing of Gwen Barlee, one of Canada’s leading environmental advocates. Barlee worked as the Wilderness Committee National Policy Director since 2001. She was an invaluable member of the organization’s executive leadership from early on, guiding the organization through many hard-fought environmental campaigns.

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Times Up For The Tar Sands

Times Up for the Tar Sands! education report explores the damning reality facing the fossil fuel industry – the economics, the alternatives, the resistance. It makes a clear argument for how fighting for a safe climate is incompatible with building any new pipelines or the tar sands mines they enable.

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As interim protections expire, First Nations, conservation groups are hopeful that islands become provincial parks

WINNIPEG — Two First Nations and two conservation groups are waiting to hear the fate of eight islands on Lake Winnipegosis. The islands that make up the Grand Island and Goose Islands complexes were nominated in 2001 by local First Nations to become protected areas for cultural and wildlife values.

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Wilderness Committee in court defending libel appeal

VANCOUVER - The Wilderness Committee is back in court this week as Taseko Mines Ltd. appeals a BC Supreme Court decision that rejected its libel suit against the organization.

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