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Interview about tankers, pipelines and tar sands
This is a video about a panel of conservationists discussing the increase in oil tanker traffic in Vancouver and what...
BC Protest in Solidarity with Keystone XL Action at the White House
It's been pretty amazing in the last few days watching the nearly 200 people who have been arrested outside the White...
Save the Juan de Fuca Trail! Get on the BUS
A public meeting to be held on September 6th is our last, best chance to stop a reckless and destructive development...
Anti Tar Sands 'Super Hero': Canadian Actress Margot Kidder Arrested at White House
VANCOUVER – Canadian actress Margot Kidder, who played Lois Lane in the Superman movies, was arrested today at a...
Anti-oil protest planned
Environmentalists are planning an anti-oil protest for Aug. 27 at the site of Burnaby's infamous 2007 pipeline rupture...
Stand tall for the Juan de Fuca Trail
It’s time to take the fight against the sprawling mega-development along the Juan de Fuca trail to a public hearing...
Justice for Wild Salmon?
Last September I stood shoulder to shoulder in the pouring rain with hundreds of concerned citizens, many of whom...
Ottawa silences scientist over West Coast salmon study
VANCOUVER — Top bureaucrats in Ottawa have muzzled a leading fisheries scientist whose discovery could help explain...
Report on BC Hydro: Big Problems with Government's 'Self-Sufficiency' Definition
Wild Rivers Breathe a Sigh of Relief VANCOUVER – The provincial government’s cost-cutting report on BC Hydro, released...
TV News Story - BC stopping new purchases of private hydro power
This is a TV news story about the BC provincial government dropping their so called "self sufficiency policy" which...
No Pipelines, No Tankers, No Tar Sands!
There are headlines almost every week about a new oil spill or pipeline leak somewhere in North America. Since the...
Please help us Protect the Peace!
For 30 years, people from all over British Columbia have been fighting the looming spectre of the Site C megadam. It...
Wanipigow Happenings: Heike & Eike, the German Superstars
Although 'Eike' and 'Heike' may have been difficult to distinguish from one another by name, their ten day visit to...
Who's safeguarding our water?
Two months ago I posted a blog entitled, “Is Manitoba the Wild West for the Mining Industry?” where I mused about the...
Protest set for site of 2007 Burnaby pipeline rupture
A Vancouver-based environmental group intends to use the Burnaby site of a dramatic oil pipeline rupture four years...
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