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Tensions start to rise in Nanoose as protesters seek to halt logging
Tensions are growing between environmentalists and aboriginal people in a dispute over logging a 64-hectare block of...
Stop the cut in our Coastal Douglas‑Fir Forests
For a handful of Wilderness Committee staff and volunteers, 8:00am on a holiday morning is not too early to stand up...
Ben tells Bill about Oil Watch
The ever-nimble, hip, and capable Wilderness Committee is devising every means by which to communicate how BC is being...
Echoes of a long‑ago guerrilla war on Nemiah Valley road
On Saturday afternoon, a Taseko Mines convoy of trucks and equipment was stopped by an RCMP cruiser on the gravel...
Environmentalists Launch Oil Tanker Alert System
The Wilderness Committee has publicly launched a new automated system to draw attention to oil tankers in Burrard...
There is only one Nanoose Bay Forest
I was worried that 8am might be too early to meet. I figured that I would get to the coffee shop and no one else would...
Today Keystone, Tomorrow Oil Tankers and Ultimately the End of the Tar Sands
Big news for all those working to stop the reckless expansion of the Alberta tar sands and the international movement...
TV News Story ‑ Nanoose Forest fight
NANOOSE BAY -- A Vancouver Island environmental group has silenced chain saws on a piece of crown land just outside of...
TV News Story ‑ Nanoose Forest
Logging has begun in the publicly owned Nanoose Bay Forests, also known as District Lot 33 or DL33. The rare Coastal...
First Nation's logging stopped by protest
Protesters halted logging for two days this week in woods that include fragments of endangered coastal Douglas fir...
Clark's mine announcement greeted with skepticism
Company abandoned coal project over dispute with first nations Premier Christy Clark's announcement of a $1.36-billion...
Reckless logging threatens rare Nanoose Bay Forest
This is a report from the field by Wilderness Committee campaigner Tria Donaldson. Logging has just begun in the...
Wilderness Committee's Tria Donaldson speaking about proposed Cherry Point Coal Port
Wilderness Committee anti- coal campaigner Tria Donaldson visits the site of a potential massive coal port in...
Reckless logging has started in endangered Nanoose Bay forest
Logging has begun in the critically endangered Nanoose Bay Forest, known as DL33. This publicly-owned and rare Coastal...
Join the fight to save Fish Lake
I was shocked and saddened to learn that the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency has agreed to Taseko Mines Ltd...
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