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Wilderness Committee’s Joe Foy hails Pinecone Burke victory
“We are drinking a bit of champagne down here.”This was the raucous response of a very excited Joe Foy, national...
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TV News Story ‑ Pitt Private Power Killed
After a wild public meeting in Pitt Meadows where well over 1,000 people came out to say NO to a proposal by a hydro...
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TV News Story ‑ Over 1,000 people voice opposition to Upper Pitt River hydro

This is a TV news story about a public meeting in Pitt Meadows where people expressed their strong opposition to the...

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TV News Story ‑ Massive Crowd Opposes Pitt River Hydro Project

This is a TV news story about the massive crowd that gathered at an open-house public meeting in Pitt Meadows BC to...

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Pitt River Public Meeting
See this 6 minute 2008 video about the public meeting that brought the Upper Pitt private power proposal down in...
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TV News Story ‑ Growing opposition to Pitt River hydropower project

This is a TV news report about growing opposition to a proposal to dam and divert the tributary streams of the Upper...

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Columns
Hidden Power ‑ Wild Times

March 15th, 2008 - Read Joe Foy's Wild Times column in the Watershed Sentinel as he looks at the rising tide of people...

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Gwen Barlee opposes Private Power Projects
Gwen Barlee, Wilderness Committee, Take Back the Power Rally, March 11, 2008, Vancouver, BC, opposes private power...
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Joe Foy opposes BC Private Power Projects
Joe Foy, Wilderness Committee, opposes BC Private Power Projects, including Run of River Inc's private power scheme...
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Manitoba
Wednesday's rally to protect parks a success!

On Wednesday, the Wilderness Committee's rally to stop park logging proved to be a great success. The concerned...

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Okanagan Similkameen National Park proposal
Here is a 2008 Okanagan-made 7 minute video about some of the good things that an Okanagan National Park could provide...
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Manitoba
Attend a Rally to Protect our Parks and our Future!

Wednesday, February 27 Healthy provincial parks create a healthy environment and a better future for all Manitobans...

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Manitoba
February 2008 Nopiming Expedition

On February 7, a Wilderness Committee expedition to set ski and snowshoe trails in Nopiming Provincial Park...

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Manitoba
Park Logging lectures at the U of W, this Wednesday, February 13

The sordid history of corporate logging interests and our provincial parks creates an unbelievable tale, and this is...

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Save the Upper Pitt River
See this 6 minute 2008 video about the fight to keep the Upper Pitt River system wild and free flowing in the face of...

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