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Balancing act a thing of beauty
Photo: Taku RiverIf you take Google Earth to visit the home of the Taku Tlingit, you will find they live in a land of...
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Dikes, trails and a visionary project on the Fraser River
There are more than 300 kilometres of dikes snaking along the banks of the Fraser River and most of them – until...
Media Releases
Wilderness Committee and Toxic Free Canada Support Pesticide Bill
A private member’s bill introduced in the legislature today would ban the sale and use of cosmetic pesticides in the...
Columns
BC’s new Green Energy Advisory Task Force? Pure Greenwash...
Last Friday November 20th, a day of the week normally reserved for bad-news announcements, the BC Government quietly...
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Protecting biodiversity worth trillions, UN says
Canada has a lot to gain by protecting its fishing stock and boreal forests, report says Protecting natural ecosystems...
Media Releases
Fraser River Boat Tour to Highlight Highways Various Threats
What: A boat tour of the Fraser River to examine threats of the proposed South Fraser Perimeter Road (SFPR) freeway...
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Colonies in peril ‑ Hug a Bee Today
Bees are an important part of functioning ecosystem, both wild and agricultural.Bees are in trouble. European Honey...
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Fish being wiped out to feed farm animals, study says
The oceans are being emptied to provide feed for farmed animals such as fish, chickens and pigs, a study involving the...
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The Search for Spotted Owls and Private Power in the Lower Fraser
I was recently contracted by the Wilderness Committee to take their ancient beast of a truck out into the field to...
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SFU Profs Slam Campbell's Energy Plan
Hobbling BC Hydro so private firms can profit big is bad public policy Two Simon Fraser University professors, both...
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PROMINENT ENVIRONMENTALIST STEPS DOWN FROM WILDERNESS COMMITTEE
A VANCOUVER ISLAND ENVIRONMENTAL CRUSADER WILL LEAVE HIS POST WITH THE WESTERN CANADA WILDERNESS COMMITTEE COME...
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South Fraser Witness Trail gets off to wet start
It was pouring rain on Saturday morning as I set out to start the Wilderness Committee’s first transit-accessible...
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Canada’s boreal forest top‑rated carbon warehouse
North America’s boreal forest contains nearly twice as much carbon per hectare as tropical forests, says a new report...
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GREEN SCENE: Will it be bye, bye Burrard Thermal? Well, not so fast
Tri-City News file photo: Burrard Thermal power plant in Port Moody burns natural gas to generate electricity. The...
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Ottawa plans inquiry into disappearance of B.C. sockeye
Wild salmon advocates expressed relief Thursday after Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that the federal...
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