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Columns
Surrey Bend Hike Reveals Surrey’s Endangered Wilderness
Wilderness hikes through endangered habitat often require long drives and days of treking but on Sunday August 8...
News
‘Mooove’ out of the way (Second in a Leader series on the SFPR)
For about 30 years John Flaming has farmed in Ladner, and the construction of the South Fraser Perimeter Road (SFPR)...
Columns
Chilcotin Mountains Pithouse, Graveyard, and Trail Project

The St’at’imc and ‘Tsilcot’in Nations have invited the Wilderness Committee to blaze new and repair old trails leading...

News
Is push to export oil to China worth risk of catastrophic spill?
A recent Canwest News report described how "China's energy buying spree is bypassing Canada's oilpatch." Depending on...
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Shipping Industry Fights for Survival
The global economic crisis is wreaking havoc on shipping: Demand and prices have collapsed and ports are filling up...
Columns
Manitoba
Government authorizes more park logging destruction, despite newly legislated park logging ban

Giving away our provincial park for a private corporation’s profit On August 12, the Manitoba government took the...

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Opposition to dams hits high-water mark
When a public information meeting on a proposed power project was held in the small village of Kaslo earlier this year...
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Forest giants need protection, says group
Wilderness committee wants top 100 of each species covered by law The woody mammoth suddenly appears in front of the...
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Professor calls Port Mann Bridge a "white elephant"
The director of SFU’s urban studies program, Anthony Perl, has claimed that a new Port Mann Bridge will become the...
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Shockingly dishonest
Photo: Rally to save BC's rivers - Nanaimo 2008 - Friends of Bute Inlet We hate to use the word in this context, but...
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Commission sides with the public
Last week it was reported that the BC Utilities Commission’s (BCUC) decision on BC Hydro’s 2008 Long Term Acquisition...
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BCUC ruling on Province’s energy plan praised, panned
Whistler – Last week’s B.C. Utilities Commission (BCUC) ruling on B.C. Hydro’s massive call for clean energy may...
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Kibosh on province's clean-energy call fuelled by logic
If humans were wired with electric circuits, a lot of fuses would have been blown last week when the British Columbia...
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BCUC's ruling against BC Hydro's claim for more power shocks industry players
B.C. Hydro's call for more energy from public and private sources has been shot down by the B.C. Utilities Commission...
Media Releases
Wilderness Committee applauds BC Utilities Commission Decision to Put the Brakes on Private Power
Commission decision highlights conservation and proper planning Vancouver, BC – In an unexpected announcement, the BC...

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