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Wild Times - About Time
January/February 2016 Read Joe Foy's Wild Times column in the Watershed Sentinel, as he writes about how people's...
NEW VIDEO: Mine Waste and the Fraser River Watershed
January 16, 2016 Do you remember the huge mine tailings dam that burst at BC’s infamous Mount Polley Mine in 2014...
Manitoba is now committed to a legacy of wilderness protection
January 14, 2016 Manitoba has as much nature and wilderness as many countries in the world. Clear lakes and rivers...
Video: Downstream -- Mine Waste and the Fraser River Watershed
Huge mine tailings dams – like the one that burst at the Mount Polley Mine in 2014 – pose a serious risk to the health...
Wilderness Committee cautiously optimistic about provincial opposition to Kinder Morgan pipeline project
News Release VANCOUVER – In an unexpected move the BC government announced this morning they are formally opposing the...
Wilderness Committee rejects Manitoba’s “climate leadership” justification for Energy East
News Release Alberta and Manitoba Premiers’ statements show fossil fuel expansion remains a real threat to our climate...
Tensions grow over plan to log Central Walbran Valley’s ancient forests
Surrey-based Teal-Jones Group was in BC Supreme Court in Vancouver last week in an attempt to extend its injunction...
Wilderness Committee strikes down province’s claim LNG is a clean solution to climate change
VANCOUVER, B.C. — The BC Wilderness Committee has reacted predictably to the Provincial Government’s new Greenhouse...
David Tindall: The Paris agreement and Canada’s involvement
Is the Paris agreement on measures to curb climate change a success or failure? It is the first major international...
Environmentalists disappointed with new Walbran Valley injunction
News Release Wilderness Committee concerned court order terms are too broad, discourage lawful activity VICTORIA –...
Court Orders Creation of 50-Metre "Bubble Zone" to Protect Company Logging Old-Growth Forest on Vancouver Island
The Wilderness Committee and other forest activists were in court in Victoria on Monday to limit Teal Jones' latest...
Walbran logging buffer-zone injunction extended
Logging company Teal Cedar Products has been granted an extension of an injunction that will keep environmental...
With Harper Gone, Buzz in Paris that 'Canada is Back'
PARIS -- For years David Miller was in the unenviable position of advocating for strong action at each year's round of...
Lawsuit of the week: Teal Cedar claims Western Canada Wilderness Committee organized unlawful blockade
Teal Cedar Products Ltd. is suing the Western Canada Wilderness Committee (WCWC) over a blockade of logging road...
Protesters allowed to ‘witness’ Walbran logging
The Wilderness Committee was able to narrow an injunction down in court to allow protesters to continue to “witness”...
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