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BC Finally Terminates Environmental Assessment for Raven Coal Mine
News Release VICTORIA – The Wilderness Committee is celebrating an announcement by the BC Environmental Assessment...
BC wants input on a “world‑leading" provincial spills regime
The ECOreport ponders what is behind the fact BC wants input on a “world-leading” provincial spills regime Before May...
CBC Manitoba election forum: Environment
The state of Manitoba's environment is weighing heavily on people's minds, according to Vote Compass, as it's among...
Video: DASIQOX TRIBAL PARK ‑ Nexwagwez?an ‑ There for us
Dasiqox Tribal Park - Nexwagwez?an – There for us - is a five minute video that is the first of a two part series...
Statement on the government’s approval of Woodfibre LNG
The Wilderness Committee is very disappointed with the government’s approval of Woodfibre LNG in Howe Sound. “This...
Groups call on feds to fund transit, not Massey Bridge
News Release Open letter urges government to review project and consider alternatives RICHMOND, BC – Community and...
Kristin Henry, others, protest Site C dam at BC Hydro HQ
Henry is five days into hunger strike Kristin Henry and several other protesters sit in and around their tents...
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...
Groups join call to review Massey replacement
Calling plans to replace the George Massey Tunnel with a bridge “a project straight out of the 1950s,” several...
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...
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