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Kids camp fight comes to legislature
Meditation Lake poor choice, opponents say in letters Environmentalists opposed to a year-round youth camp on an...
Tim's camp on hold while water checked out
The Tim Hortons Children's Foundation says Meditation Lake in the Whiteshell remains the group's preferred site for a...
Tria Donaldson: Last thing B.C. needs is a lump of dirty coal
Georgia StraightBy Tria DonaldsonSeptember 23, 2010 My first memories of coal are tied very closely with the approach...
Thinking through the camp proposal
PHOTO: A timber wolf stares through the underbrush at Meditation Lake. (JOE.BRYKSA@FREEPRESS.MB.CA) Whiteshell park...
Environmentalists pan new road through Grass River provincial park
WINNIPEG - Local environmentalists and politicians say the Doer government has back-pedalled on new legislation that...
Logging road may spark court battle
Environmentalists oppose park route Local environmentalists may go to court to block a logging road proposed for Grass...
Activists Target Misinformation about Potential for Vancouver Oil Spill
Today the Vancouver Board of Trade is hosting a forum on tanker safety and activists are concerned that the whole...
Hydro Bipole III: Maps show line may be longer than predicted
MANITOBA Hydro's Bipole III transmission line could be even longer than predicted, with one proposed route sending...
The way of the west
Hydro choosing route for its new transmission line If a power line is built through the forest and no one notices...
Tim's chooses Sylvia Lake site
Second choice for kids' camp The Tim Horton Children's Foundation is getting a second crack at building a camp for...
Tim's camp hits snag, again
Wilderness committee opposes Whiteshell park location A proposed Tim Horton Children's Foundation camp near Pinawa hit...
Lobby groups target province on BiPole issue
Canadian, Manitoban and U.S. groups launched a new eduction blitz today as part of an effort to urge the Manitoba...
Environmentalists attack Hydro line route
WINNIPEG - Environmental groups counter-attacked Wednesday in the growing war of words over Manitoba Hydro’s plan to...
World Rivers Day Blessing of the Salmon and Tour of the Qualicum Beach Salmon Forest to Canada’s 3rd tallest Sitka Spruce
Qualicum Beach, British Columbia – The eleventh annual BC Rivers Day Celebration in the Qualicum Beach Salmon Forest...
BC Government demands $9,000 from Wilderness Committee to access public records
In response to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request by the Wilderness Committee regarding budget cuts to provincial...
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