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TV News Story ‑ Opposition to logging near Port Alberni
This is a TV news story about logging giant Island Timberlands' attempts to log a roadside section of forest near the...
Canadian resource firms step up legal fight against green groups
Risks are growing for climate and environmental activists who take a stand against Canadian firms involved in the...
West Vancouver Pipeline and Tanker Town Hall
Media Advisory - December 10, 2012 WEST VANCOUVER – This evening, the Wilderness Committee and Tanker Free BC will be...
Navy sonar: Canadian environmental groups get legal standing in U.S. court case
Suit opposes naval exercises that would be harmful to marine animals and their habitat Canadian environmental groups...
A Fish Story ‑ Wild Times
January/February 2013 Read Joe Foy's Wild Times column in the Watershed Sentinel , as he calls for the protection of...
Enbridge Hearings Hit Vancouver This Week!
Important news! The joint review panel hearings for the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline are coming to Vancouver...
B.C. gives conditional nod to controversial Upper Lillooet Valley hydro project
The B.C. government has given conditional approval to a run-of-river power project in the Upper Lillooet River Valley...
Kinder Morgan proposes bigger pipeline through B.C.
Kinder Morgan Canada has increased the size of its proposed pipeline from Edmonton to Burnaby, a plan that could boost...
B.C.’s public‑sector pension invests millions in Enbridge, tobacco stock
B.C.’s public-sector pensions are investing billions in Enbridge Inc. and other oil giants at the same time that...
Wilderness Committee to State Opposition at Northern Gateway Pipeline Hearings
Media Advisory - January 14, 2013 VANCOUVER – As joint review panel hearings begin in Vancouver this week regarding...
Letters call for ban on peat mining in Manitoba
On Wednesday morning, the Wilderness Committee delivered 830 letters to Manitoba Minister of Conservation Gord...
Wilderness Committee Calls for Provincial Peat Mine Ban
The Manitoba branch of the Wilderness Committee delivered 830 letters to Conservation Minister Gord Mackintosh on...
BC Government Approves Upper Lillooet Hydro Project
Media Release - January 11, 2013 VANCOUVER – Despite wide-ranging opposition from local residents and environmental...
Environmentalists call for UVic to stop investing pension funds in Enbridge
A B.C. environmental group is calling on the University of Victoria to stop investing pension funds in oil companies...
Peat mining strategy to be public within weeks
Environmental group wants wholesale provincial ban The province is close to announcing a strategy on peat mining that...
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