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Environmental groups join call for federal review of Massey tunnel replacement
Eight different social and environmental activist groups have sent an open letter to the Prime Minister to try and...
TV News Story - LNG and Climate
In this TV news story, Wilderness Committee Climate Campaigner Peter McCartney responds to a pro-LNG rally in northern...
Wild Times - The possibility of Sasquatch
March/April 2016 Read Joe Foy's Wild Times column in the Watershed Sentinel, as he examines the wilderness roots of BC...
CEAA comments reveal fault lines over LNG project
Canada's environmental regulator is continuing to wade through nearly 30,000 comments submitted on the proposed...
Video: Joe Foy speaking out against the Site C dam
Joe Foy, Wilderness Committee National Campaign Director, speaking out against the Site C dam at a rally in front of...
Justice minister sees no conflict between her past protests and B.C. Site C dam
Jody Wilson-Raybould, one of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s most senior ministers, says she sees no conflict between...
Nakusp Residents Hopping Mad over Logging in Toad Country
Forestry plans pit village citizens who love their amphibians against a company they own. Kiss the right frog, the...
Revitalizing Howe Sound means rejecting Woodfibre LNG
By Peter McCartneyThe Georgia StraightMarch 4, 2016 I’ve had a lot of inspiring moments around Howe Sound: taking in...
Disappointing First Ministers’ Meeting leaves huge gaps in carbon pricing
News Release VANCOUVER – After much anticipation ahead of today’s First Ministers’ Meeting in Vancouver, the Premiers...
Art installation on Vancouver seawall calls out Canada’s climate inaction
News Release #SeaLevelUprising sends message to leaders during First Ministers’ Meeting VANCOUVER – Environmentalists...
Logging started in western toad habitat near Nakusp, BC
News Release Nakusp, BC – Logging has begun in core western toad habitat near Nakusp, BC. Although conditions are poor...
'Toad War' logging begins
After plans to log key toad habitat near Nakusp sparked an outcry, and even a blockade, from community members...
Taseko files action in U.S. in proxy battle
A nasty proxy war between Taseko Mines Ltd. (TSX:TKO, NYSE:MKT) and a group of American investors is brewing on both...
Get off your land for the dam, Canadian orders
Peace River landowners and Aboriginal First Nations protesters have until midnight to vacate a camp and make way for...
Grassroots pressure is making progress in the Walbran Valley
March 1, 2016 In the spring of 2015, we learned of a logging company’s plan to cut out the heart of the Walbran Valley...
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