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Sagkeeng First Nation ponders mill purchase
Officials at Sagkeeng First Nation are crunching the numbers to see whether they should put in an offer to buy the...
Closing Tembec plant means Manitobans will breathe easier
Third-worst polluter in Manitoba is closed and up for sale Today, Tembec announced it will close its paper mill in...
WC congratulates Bill Blaikie and Rob Altemeyer
The Wilderness Committee congratulates Bill Blaikie, MLA for Elmwood, for being selected to the important post of...
Meditation Lake info kept from public
Freedom of Information Act requests still unanswered after 49 days, now no chance to inform public before government...
Trail building through West Coast ancient rainforest
Summer was a busy time for members and volunteers with the Wilderness Committee (WC) who spent time building and...
Fish Lake Report
This is a Wilderness Committee On the Ground Report about the fight to protect Fish Lake from being destroyed by an...
Wilderness Committee applauds Newfoundland and Labrador for taking back control of public lands and waters
Largest environmental citizen group in Canada supports government decision to rescind corporate tenure rights over...
Park Logging Stopped! Victory for the Wilderness Committee in Manitoba!
Wilderness Committee congratulates government on protecting most of Manitoba's parks, finally ending park logging...
Logging banned in Whiteshell, Nopiming
A new provincial ban on logging in two North Eastman provincial parks is being hailed as a victory by Manitoba...
Activists hail park logging ban
The bubbly was popping and suds flowing Friday as local environmentalists celebrated the Doer government's sudden...
Rallies planned to stop logging
AN environmental group hasn't given up the fight to stop logging in provincial parks in Manitoba -- one of the last...
Mass species die‑off in Whiteshell Provincial Park
Clams dead in secluded lake near logging operations in Whiteshell Provincial Park The Wilderness Committee is...
Paddle to the Premier: Say No to The Site C Dam!
First Nations, Concerned Community Members to Rally Against Site “C” DamFort St. John , BC - On Sunday, September 19...
TV News Story ‑ Vancouver Island Coal Mine Protest Taken to Prime Minister Harper
The Prime Minister's visit to Nanaimo today was the second stop on Stephen Harper's tour of Vancouver Island. Earlier...
Kwantlen Students ask Minister Penner & Surrey Mayor Watts to Promise No New Garbage Incinerator
The Kwantlen Student Association (KSA) opposes the plan to buy a new waste incinerator in Metro Vancouver and they are...
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