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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...
BC’S SUPREME COURT GAVE BC HYDRO AN INJUNCTION
The province’s Supreme Court granted B.C. Hydro an injunction to remove local farmers and First Nations from 216...
Come trail building with the Wilderness Committee!
February 25, 2016 The weather is getting better each day, and you want to get out into the woods. You want to immerse...
Taseko Mines appeals defamation court loss
News Release Wilderness Committee demands BC government enact anti-SLAPP legislation in light of Taseko court appeal...
NGO submission to UN highlights impacts of Site C dam on Indigenous rights, food security
News Release Four BC-based NGOs who made a submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights are...
Western Toad Habitat in Danger as Nearby Logging Takes Place
A federally listed species of special concern could be threatened as the BC Government has approved logging near its...
Western toad protection at risk from logging, say environmentalists
Residents of a village in the Kootenay region of B.C. say their town-owned logging company shouldn't be cutting down...
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