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Wilderness Committee to Host Anti-Coal Forum on Clean Air Day
What: A public forum entitled Coal: BC's Dirty Secret focused on BC's quietly growing coal mining and exports. As new...
Under the Owl's Wings - Wild Times
June 1st, 2010 - Read Joe Foy's Wild Times column in the Watershed Sentinel as he describes the ongoing battle to stop...
BC's Energy Indepedence? Don't Believe It
Minister Lekstrom is wrong. Most new energy projects controlled by big firms outside BC. Blair Lekstrom, B.C.'s...
CoalWatch takes its message on the road
CoalWatch Comox Valley is taking their anti-coalmine message on the road. The group, which is trying to raise...
Deal struck to protect woodland caribou
North Eastman's woodland caribou aren't out of the woods just yet, no pun intended. A deal struck on Tuesday between...
Ahousaht First Nations under fire in two protests in one week
Photo: Catface Mountain as seen from Tofino First Street DockIn two separate protests last week, it seems...
Local Canadian Idol Star Releases Song to Help Fight Waste Incineration
As Metro Vancouver consults the public on its plan to burn more of the region’s garbage, those opposing the plan have...
Roberts Creek - Keeping BC's Rivers Wild and Power Public Event
This is a Wilderness Committee 10 minute video news update. On May 27, 2010 the Wilderness Committee and the Council...
Canadian Forestry Firms Agreement Fails on Caribou, Boreal Protection
Good news turns out to be too good to be true A recent announcement by a 21-corporation forestry consortium that led...
Wilderness groups want protection for arid 'gem'
Photo: Gwen Barlee Local wilderness-protection groups are urging Ottawa to create a national park to protect the semi...
Wilderness group will gather to discuss coal industry
The Wilderness Committee, Canada's largest membership-based wilderness preservation program, will hold a public...
On The Road to Stopping Private Power
We’re on the road again! I got that old Willie Nelson tune playing in my head as I write this blog. That’s because we...
You can help create a new National Park
Right now you have the rare ability to help create a national park in the South Okanagan. In the southernmost portion...
Clayoquot Sound mine plan draws opposition
Environmentalists staged a protest in downtown Vancouver on Wednesday to voice their opposition to a proposed copper...
Three-dozen rally in Vancouver in effort to stop mining near Tofino
Protesters gathered in front of a mining company's office building in Vancouver on Wednesday afternoon in an effort to...
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