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Wilderness Committee calls on Kinder Morgan to stop bullying Burnaby residents
News Release - October 31, 2014 VANCOUVER – The Wilderness Committee is expressing sympathy today for Burnaby...
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Here at the Wilderness Committee, autumn is one of our favourite times of the year. Why? Because it’s time for us to...
Vancouver park board institutes pesticide ban to help save honeybees
The skinny Vancouver’s park board will no longer plant or purchase plants treated with a class of pesticides...
Vancouver Island coal mine proposal back from the dead
October 30, 2014 In early October, provincial environmental regulators received word that the application for the...
Greenprint: Our Plan for Nopiming Park
October 29, 2014 When I tell people about Manitoba, of the wondrous nature that I know and cherish, I speak about my...
Site C: Peace River landowners seek judicial review of hydro dam plan
A group of landowners from B.C.'s Peace River region have filed an application for judicial review in B.C. Supreme...
Endangered turtles released in Burnaby Lake
INTO THE WILD They were the last of the wee ones. On Tuesday, three biologists released the four remaining Western...
South Okanagan national park proposal just makes sense
It doesn’t appear the Liberal government in B.C. has been measurably moved by growing calls for the province to rejoin...
Video: Wilderness Committee Projects for the Year ending April 2014
This is a 33 minute video about some of the projects that the Wilderness Committee undertook in the period between May...
Greenprint for Nopiming Provincial Park Management released
News Release - October 28, 2014 Wilderness Committee document provides guidance for new Nopiming Park Management Plan...
Climate campaigner disputes Province's claim that BC's LNG plants will be 'clean'
New legislation ensures BC will have the world's cleanest liquefied natural gas facilities in the world, environment...
Mayor of Hudson’s Hope request Site C stop work order
Mayor of Hudson’s Hope, Gwen Johansson has now called on Premier Christy Clark to order B.C. Hydro to stop work on the...
Decision makers, dissenters set sights on B.C.'s Site C dam project price tag
VANCOUVER - With provincial and federal environmental certificates now in hand, BC Hydro faces a much tougher hurdle...
The results of our fracking water use court case are in…
October 17, 2014 Earlier this year we took the BC government to court, seeking to force them to apply their own laws...
A massive dam – and a massive legal test
When the Supreme Court of Canada released its groundbreaking decision in Tsilhqot’in Nation v. British Columbia this...
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