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Landmark court victory forces government to protect endangered species habitat
Precedent-setting decision gives Canada’s endangered sage-grouse and other species at risk a chance at recovery...
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North America’s first northern spotted owls hatched in captivity
Photograph by: Handout, Mountain View Conservation and Breeding Centre VANCOUVER — In a North American first, two...
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MLA plans meeting in Nelson about Glacier/Howser IPP
If the Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) won’t bring a public meeting on the Glacier-Howser project to Nelson...
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Guest Editorial ‑ Privatization of World's Water is a Corporate Scam
Lillooet – One of the monumental corporate scams in the world today is the privatization of water, meaning the legal...
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First Nation rejects pipeline input offer
The Stellat'en First Nation says it has rejected an offer of $33,368 from Ottawa to provide input into the terms of a...
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Event Galvanizes Opposition to Enbridge Tar Sands Pipeline
Office of the Wet'suwet'en NEWS RELEASE (Moricetown, BC) - Community opposition to the proposed Enbridge pipeline is...
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Event Galvanizes Opposition to Enbridge Tar Sands Pipeline
NEWS RELEASE (Moricetown, BC) - Community opposition to the proposed Enbridge pipeline is growing. Over 200 people...
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Huge Crowds Turn Out in Kootenays to Protect Wild Rivers
Save Our Rivers Society ( http://saveourrivers.ca) presents a new 5-min video by Damien Gillis, documenting a big week...
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Seton Community Farm Update ‑ Volunteers Needed
From Andy Miller - Staff Scientist The Seton Community Farm is an aboriginal farm and food security project launched...
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Update on the BC Endangered Species Campaign
The campaign to introduce endangered species legislation in BC is going well. Currently, we have collected over 12,000...
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Dinosaurs Against Fossil Fuels visit opening of Golden Ears freeway bridge & Car free festival

A mysterious new force has joined the campaign against the Gateway project: the Dinosaurs Against Fossil Fuels. The...

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Electricity Inquiry Should Examine Coal Mine Impacts on Salmon Rivers and Climate
The Wilderness Committee was represented in the first two meetings of the BC Utilities Commission inquiry into long...
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About 900 protest Glacier/Howser IPP in Kaslo
The West Kootenay EcoSociety’s Lee-Ann Unger leads protesters in a chant outside J.V. Humphries school in Kaslo at a...
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SFPR road work moves south
Pre-loading and excavation on the South Fraser Perimeter Road is now beginning in South Delta, but as construction...
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Time to un‑stall national park talks
The topic of a National Park in the South Okanagan and Similkameen areas has become a divisive issue throughout the...

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