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New Downloadable Maps of the Kinder Morgan Pipeline Route
The Wilderness Committee has produced a series of maps of the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline route, as a way to...
Contentious forest carbon program could cost taxpayers, critics charge
A new provincial government scheme to fund reforestation by selling carbon credits is supposed to steer private-sector...
Wilderness Committee calls for BC‑wide public hearings on Site C Dam
News Release - September 12, 2013 VANCOUVER - The Wilderness Committee is demanding that the joint federal-provincial...
TV News Story ‑ Environmental Assessment of Coal Expansion Plans Announced
This is a TV interview with a representative from Port Metro Vancouver, and the Wilderness Committee's Climate...
How close are you to the Kinder Morgan pipeline?
BC Hydro cancels ten agreements to buy private electricity
The utility is looking at others as it searches for ways to cut costs Energy and Mines Minister Bill Bennett says BC...
Fossil‑fuel debate turns to coal
Though it’s not over yet, the campaign against the Northern Gateway pipeline has been one of the most successful ever...
Exposing The Gold Diggers Of BC
The Huffington Post By Torrance Coste September 4, 2013 Clayoquot Sound is one of the most renowned wilderness regions...
BC Hydro to cancel up to 10 independent power deals and defer delivery on some others
BC Hydro will cancel as many as 10 electricity purchase contracts with independent power producers and defer delivery...
BC Hydro to cut 10 power deals, defer 9
'Sunk costs' of site preparation, engineering drawings to be paid out to avoid court, Bennett says At least 10...
Another victory against peat mining, for park protection
Last week, the Manitoba government filed the papers to permanently protect 4,000 hectares of land in Hecla /...
Effort to derail oil plan heats up
Town halls, letter-writing campaign in works A national environmental group is ramping up its efforts to block a...
News of four cancelled private power contracts a small step forward, says Wilderness Committee
News Release - August 30, 2013 VANCOUVER – The Wilderness Committee today applauded Thursday's news that BC Hydro has...
How close are you to the Kinder Morgan pipeline?
September 2013 This fall, Kinder Morgan is busy preparing to file their formal application with the National Energy...
B.C. issues contentious mineral‑exploration permit in Clayoquot Sound
Natives in Tofino are outraged that the B.C. government has issued a mineral-exploration permit for an area of...
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