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Cutting Down Provincial Parks Cheaper than Recycling
Tembec Seeks to Keep Clearcutting in Manitoba, but Doesn't Respect the Environment This week Tembec announced plans to...
Group opposes logging in parks
The Manitoba office of a Vancouver-based environmental group wants to focus an upcoming rally at the legislative...
Environmentalists Urge Minister Penner to Reject Incineration Due to Toxic Ash in Burns Bog Landfill
Metro Vancouver staff has suggested that if the current waste management plan goes forward as proposed that all of the...
Parks Preserved In New Hydro Route
For Immediate Release—July 29, 2010 Attention to be paid to potential protected areas, woodland caribou ranges The...
Hydro chooses route for new power line
West-side choice evokes more controversy Manitoba Hydro chose a route Thursday for its massive new power line, but...
TV News Report ‑ Proposed Enbridge Pipeline Endangering BC's Whales
See this August 2010 TV news report about how tankers coming to load up from the proposed Enbridge Oil Pipeline from...
Where to, caribou?
August 8, 2010 In the afternoon of day three on my northwest Manitoba odyssey, I looked over a map the Manitoba...
Minister Penner Should Act on Ministry Concerns about "Biased" Incineration Report
The Wilderness Committee is calling on BC Environment Minister Barry Penner to say no to Metro Vancouver's waste to...
Wetlands, Wetlands as far as the eye can see
There was great excitement in me as I motored down the road last week, finally heading up into northwestern Manitoba...
Hometown Forest Victory Leaves out Nanoose Bay
Last Friday the Minister of Forests and Range, Pat Bell, announced the protection of over 1,500 ha of Coastal Douglas...
Friday vote on garbage incineration will affect Metro Vancouver for decades
Residents of Metro Vancouver will find their wallets — and perhaps the air they breathe — affected for decades by a...
New waste‑to‑energy incinerator in Metro Vancouver still possible after board vote
The prospect of a new incinerator in B.C.’s Lower Mainland joining the existing facility in Burnaby remains very much...
National Cancer Organization Links Incineration and Increased Cancer Rates. urges precautionary principle
Today in a letter to each Metro Vancouver board member, Prevent Cancer Now (PCN), a national non-profit organization...
Wilderness Committee Will Fight Incinerators Regardless of Metro Vote
Metro Vancouver directors will vote today on the proposal to build a new waste incinerator to burn the region’s...
Whiteshell clearcut a benefit, says province
A wilderness watchdog group says it has learned the province is allowing clear-cutting to break up rare stands of old...
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