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A new Canadian national park just over the border with Washington?
A long-discussed, hitherto sidetracked proposal for a new Canadian national park, located just over the U.S.-Canada...
Trans Mountain faces 145 energy board conditions for pipeline expansion
As NEB issues 145 draft conditions for Kinder Morgan, the Wilderness Committee and CPAWS, along with 33 citizens send...
TV News Story ‑ Discussion about reasons for leaving Vancouver pipeline process
This is a TV news story about the reasons that the Wilderness Committee and dozens of concerned citizens have dropped...
TV News Story ‑ Wilderness Committee calls pipeline public process a sham
This is a TV news story about the Wilderness Committee and other citizens dropping out of the flawed National Energy...
More participants withdraw from flawed Kinder Morgan pipeline review process
News Release Two environmental organizations and 33 individuals join experts in withdrawing from the National Energy...
B.C. says park policy offers protection while others fear development
VICTORIA - The British Columbia government says the province's parks are off limits to industrial activity under a new...
Big Trees and Even Bigger Smiles
Another great summer building trails in Clayoquot Sound! August 6, 2015 On July 10th, I found myself back out in one...
In Canada, officials keep close watch on environmental activists
Newly released documents show that police in British Columbia are monitoring opponents of oil pipeline development...
The Mount Polley disaster: One year later
Mining in BC could cost BC taxpayers more than a mine produces in its entire lifetime; that’s the bottom line. The...
TV News Story ‑ Backlash against BC Grizzly Bear trophy hunting
A BC hunting guide who received an award after having been convicted of a hunting regulation offence has re-ignited...
Chaotic NEB process continues to hinder public participation
News Release Is shifting dates twice midsummer a deliberate tactic? VICTORIA - The National Energy Board has suddenly...
B.C.'s top hunting guide for 2015 found guilty of hunting grizzly with bait
The man named B.C.’s top hunting guide for 2015 was months later found guilty of illegally hunting a grizzly with bait...
TV News Story ‑ Mount Polley Mine Report cause for concern
This is a TV news story about the release of the Mount Polley Mine report that describes progress made on the massive...
Smoky summer: Why the impacts of climate change are no longer such a hazy concept on the West Coast
By Torrance CosteRabble.caJuly 28, 2015 On July 5, 2015, I woke up just after dawn. It was early, but I didn't feel...
Environmentalists fight to save tract of old‑growth Island trees
At the end of a logging road, past expanses of clear-cut land, is the entrance to one of the largest contiguous tracts...
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