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Kinder Morgan files pipeline application despite widespread community opposition
VANCOUVER/VICTORIA – The Wilderness Committee is reiterating its concerns over Kinder Morgan’s proposed Trans Mountain...
Canada unprepared for oil spill in Strait of Juan de Fuca
Canada is not ready to respond to an oil tanker spill — large or small — in the Strait of Juan de Fuca or inland...
Vancouver Island’s remaining old-growth a disappearing treasure
The Vancouver Observer By Torrance Coste December 12, 2013 A few months ago I was visiting family and friends in the...
Time for B.C. government to end silence on coal exports
The Georgia Straight By Eoin Madden December 6, 2013 Before the discussion started heating up around building a new...
Tsilhqot'in Mass Dance Ceremony for Fish Lake
This is a Wilderness Committee "On The Ground Report" about a mass dance ceremony on the streets of down-town...
TV News Story - BC Government last minute lobby for New Prosperity Mine
This is a TV news story about a last minute attempt by the BC government and some members of the business community to...
TV News Story - Site C Dam EAO Hearings to Start
This is a TV news story about the start of the Joint Federal/Provincial Panel Environmental Review of the proposed...
Wilderness Committee Projects for the Year ending April 2013
This is a 39 minute video about some of the projects that the Wilderness Committee undertook in the period between May...
BC Regulator Sued for Water Act Violations Related to Fracking Industry
Three environmental organizations are taking aim at what they call the “systemic” contravening of British Colombia...
Environmentalists, B.C. at loggerheads over Douglas fir
When commercial logging began in B.C. about 150 years ago, stands of coastal Douglas fir covered 135,000 hectares of...
Canadian Arctic port and rail company pins hope for revival on oil exports
Bakken shale shipments across 810-mile railway that shifts over unstable permafrost raise concerns over safety and...
Learn more about Canada's disappearing bees
Bees and other pollinators are an essential part of our agricultural system. They provide critical services that help...
LNG plant proposed for Lower Mainland
Environmentalists fear a 20-acre natural gas liquefaction plant proposed for somewhere in the Lower Mainland is a step...
Rye’s investments question ethics
In classrooms, professors teach business ethics and green energy courses. Hand-grown gardens and water bottle refill...
BC Supreme Court lawsuit targets water use by resource extraction industry in the province
Ecojustice Canada claims B.C.’s oil and gas commission is a serial Water Act violator The BC Oil and Gas Commission...
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