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Deadline approaching on Site C
Monday is last day to file written comments Public hearings on the proposed Site C hydroelectric dam are scheduled to...
Veteran Environmentalists Bring Clayoquot Sound Tour to Victoria
News Release - November 19, 2013 Captivating presentation looks at past, present and future of Clayoquot Sound...
Pipelines could cut through parks
Government document sets out how to gain approval for boundary adjustments A B.C. Parks document is raising the...
Vancouver rally joins nationwide call to Defend Our Climate
Media Advisory - November 15, 2013 Saturday’s #NoEnbridge event to push for climate action over tankers and pipelines...
Standoff at Big Meadow ‑ Wild Times
Nov/Dec 2013 Read Joe Foy's Column in the Watershed Sentinel as he describes his latest experience in Tsilhqot'in...
Environmental groups unite to curtail B.C. frackers’ water access
A coalition of environmental groups has filed court action against British Columbia’s Oil and Gas Commission and...
This oil shipping plan is on shaky ground
November 2013 As I was getting ready for the train trip up the Bayline to Churchill, Manitoba – the day after our town...
Water usage by fracking operations challenged in B.C. Supreme Court
Lawsuit alleges Oil and Gas Commission’s practices violate B.C. Water Act News Release - November 13, 2013 VANCOUVER -...
Environmental groups to announce fracking lawsuit tomorrow morning
Media Advisory – Nov 12, 2013 VANCOUVER — Ecojustice, on behalf of Sierra Club BC and the Wilderness Committee, is...
Public hearings for BC Hydro’s Site C start next month
Public hearings into the massive Site C project proposed by BC Hydro will begin next month, after a joint federal...
How could Whatcom County oil and coal transport affect BC?
The Wilderness Committee says everything in the Salish Sea area affects us There is a large focus on the movement of...
Critics to Northern Gateway react to recent tentative pipeline deal
The tentative deal reached by B.C. and Alberta on the Northern Gateway pipeline came as a surprise to some. For months...
Landowners to discuss Kinder Morgan’s proposed bitumen pipeline this Thursday
News Release - November 6, 2013 Community gets together to weigh its options on pipelines VANCOUVER – Langley area...
TV News Story ‑ Opposition to BC Alberta pipeline process
This is a TV news interview with Wilderness Committee Climate Campaigner Eoin Madden about a recent announcement that...
Most run‑of‑river B.C. hydro projects can harm fish
Study finds all but one of 44 projects is on fish habitat, including salmon, trout and char Almost 100 per cent of...
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