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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...
'Stunning' forest‑protection deal met with caution in B.C.
Photo: Joe Foy, the Wilderness Committee's B.C.-based national campaign director, says the agreement does not mean a...
Native leaders slam eco‑groups over mine plan ‑ Ahousaht chiefs say they can make their own decisions about land
Hereditary chiefs from Ahousaht First Nation are accusing environmental groups of interfering with traditional...
Joe Foy on Proposed Clayoquot Strip Mine
While Imperial Minning executives held their AGM Wilderness Committee national campaign coordinator Joe Foy spoke to...
Opposition mounting against proposed copper mine
Photo: Catface Mountain, Clayoquot Sound, BC Canada Clayoquot sound is no place for a copper mine. That's the message...
Clean Energy Act will mean less public consultation on energy projects
The Province of British Columbia is looking to duck an avenue of public consultation on the installation of power...
Column: Premier's power grab is bad news for you and me
Silly me. If it hadn't happened right before my eyes, I'd have sworn there's no such thing as the Divine Right of...
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