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BC energy policies bad for both taxpayers and environment
The BC government is moving full steam ahead with the costly and destructive Site C Dam, even as BC Hydro is facing...
Battle brewing over pipeline plans in B.C.
So far British Columbia has been spared the kind of intense pipeline fight that buffets the proposed Keystone XL...
Harsha Walia: First Nations fight tar sands pipelines
The past few months saw high-profile civil disobedience from Washington, D.C., to Ottawa against the Alberta tar sands...
Help Save Arlene's Life - A story from Peace Valley
The human story behind BC Hydro's proposed 60 metre-high Site C dam on the Peace River of British Columbia. Over 100...
A West Coast salmon epidemic: Get ahead of it, and get Canada off its behind
Salmon advocates have come across what they feared -- what every West Coast salmon fisherman should fear -- in British...
Joint review for Raven coal project not in cards
The Raven Underground Coal project will not go to a joint federal-provincial review panel, the federal and provincial...
China Beach Clear Cut
I’ve stayed at the China Beach campground several times before, but for the first time last Saturday I walked across...
Good and Green - Wild Times
November 1st, 2011 - Read Joe Foy's Wild Times column in the Watershed Sentinel as he looks at different shades of...
Fish Lake
In a rare bit of good news from the environmental activism front, the Wilderness Committee recently announced that...
Incineration is always a bad idea
The short-sighted vision of turning mountains of garbage into cash by creating energy never works out that way...
New proposal threatens Fish Lake again!
I am writing you today to ask that you send off a quick letter before November 7th to the federal government about a...
Cheap power comes at a price
BC Hydro will lose millions supplying new mines and LNG facilities; losses that will be passed on to consumers A...
Vancouver Sun article argues new mines will cost millions
An article released by the Vancouver Sun Monday claims B.C. Hydro will lose millions by supplying power to new mines...
Burrard Tankers
The Wilderness Committee's Ben West describes the increasing risk oil tankers pose to Vancouver's Burrard Inlet and...
Kinder Morgan looks at expanding pipeline
Company holds 'open season' in an effort to find out if there's enough interest from potential clients to justify...
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