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Overwhelming majority of public comments reject BC forest privatization scheme
News Release - June 5, 2014 Of over 4,200 public comments posted online, only 15 agree with the BC government’s...
Read our latest report: Wild Manitoba
The walls of my office are covered with maps. There are days when I gaze at them, contemplating, envisioning the...
Banning bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides is the best way to celebrate BC’s “Day of the Honey Bee”
News Release - May 29, 2014 VANCOUVER – As the British Columbia government today celebrates the “Day of the Honey Bee...
Site C not in public interest
Re: Approval of Site C project is in the public interest, Opinion, May 14 I strongly disagree with Charles Reid...
VIEW: Area-based tenures are not the answer for BC forests
Another spring, another attempt to hand over logging rights to private interests in B.C. The B.C. government is...
Turning over public forests to corporate interests? No thanks!
May 22, 2014 On Thurs. May 22, the Wilderness Committee's National Campaign Director Joe Foy made a submission in...
VIEW: Area-based tenures are not the answer for BC forests
The Tyee By Torrance Coste May 23, 2014 Another spring, another attempt to hand over logging rights to private...
Peace River tops list of B.C.’s most endangered rivers
Peace River tops list of B.C.’s most endangered rivers The votes are in and these five B.C. rivers have flowed right...
Will Ottawa side with First Nations and block B.C. dam?
Officials from the B.C. and federal governments are preparing a final sales pitch to First Nations on the proposed...
Chief Stewart Phillip on LNG: 'This has to become a popular struggle'
Two hundred and fifty people jammed into a meeting hall in downtown Vancouver on May 21, 2014 to learn about the plans...
TV News Story - LNG in BC
In this TV news story, Climate Campaigner Eoin Madden counters arguments coming from the BC government and the gas...
Counter-summit exposes true impacts of BC's LNG pipe dreams
News Release - May 21, 2014 Forum brings together frontline community members from Squamish, Hazelton and Fort Nelson...
Glimmer of hope for B.C.’s endangered owls
Northern spotted owl population shows small increase after campaign targets barred owl rival A flourishing barred owl...
Counter-summit to expose true impacts of BC's LNG pipe dreams
Media Advisory - May 20, 2014 Forum brings together frontline community members from Squamish, Hazelton and Fort...
Dam would drown several sites of historical significance
Sacred native sites that date back thousands of years and a fort that was the first European settlement in mainland...
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