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Wilderness Committee back in court to fight injunction
News Release Logging company seeking to bar public access to the Walbran Valley VICTORIA – Lawyers from Ecojustice...
Courthouse rally ahead of Walbran Valley injunction hearing
Media Advisory Old-growth forest defenders to gather outside courthouse as Teal Jones seeks further injunction...
Logging protest in Victoria
Wilderness Committee representatives will join supporters and forest preservation advocates for a rally outside the...
New parks and protected areas a welcome gift for Manitobans
News Release Wilderness Committee celebrates after 14-year campaign to permanently protect wild lands WINNIPEG – The...
TV News Story ‑ Walbran Valley logging protest in Nanaimo
This is a TV news story about a group protesting logging of old-growth forest in the Walbran Valley on southwest...
TV News Story ‑ Walbran Logging Protest in Nanaimo
This is a TV news story about a protest concerning logging old-growth forest in southwest Vacouver Island's Walbran...
BC’s Cap and Trade Act ditched to allow LNG climate pollution
News Release Legislation coming into force on Jan. 1 allows BC’s greenhouse gas emissions from LNG to rise VANCOUVER –...
TV News Story ‑ No Charges in Mount Polley Mine Disaster
This is a TV news story about the BC government's failure to lay charges regarding the 2014 tailings dam collapse at...
Battle for ancient forests in B.C: blockades again?
Well over twenty years ago, there was a sometimes bitter struggle on Canada’s west coast. It pitted conservationists...
Judge limits injunction in threatened Walbran Valley forest
News Release Wilderness Committee to continue efforts to raise awareness and halt old-growth logging VANCOUVER –...
The World Needs Swift Action, and the Paris Agreement Doesn't Go Far Enough
An update on COP21 climate negotiations from WC Campaigner Torrance Coste December 16, 2015 Some of us have been...
Update from the UN climate summit
Torrance Coste, Vancouver Island Campaigner, reports from COP21 in Paris December 8, 2015 I landed in Paris just a...
B.C. forestry watchdog finds timber companies have too much power
Change recommended so public interest can be protected by district managers The B.C. government has given away so much...
Public allowed back into Walbran Valley, court rules
News Release Wilderness Committee prompts BC Supreme Court to narrow injunction against logging protesters VANCOUVER –...
Group calls on B.C. to toughen protection for giant trees to aid climate change
WALBRAN VALLEY, B.C. — Conservationists who want the government to take action on climate change by protecting British...
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