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Radio: Joe Foy on the Mount Polley mine disaster 5 years later
Joe Foy talks with Stephen Quinn on CBC The Early Edition about the 5 year anniversary of the Mount Polley mine...
Videos
TV News Story - Five Year Anniversary of Mount Polley Mine disaster and still no charges
This is a TV news interview with the Wilderness Committee's Joe Foy about the impending deadline to lay federal...
Media Releases
Largest Canadian mine tailings spill ever and still no charges
VANCOUVER - The five-year anniversary for the Mount Polley mine tailings dam failure is this Sunday and along with it...
Videos
TV News Story - Federal deadline for Mount Polley charges nearly here
This is a TV news story about the five year anniversary of the massive Mount Polley Mine tailings dam disaster and the...
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Radio: Joe Foy on spotted owls and old-growth logging

Co-Executive Director Joe Foy talks about the endangered spotted owl and old-growth logging in British Columbia with...

Videos
TV News Story - BC Drinking Water at Risk
This is a TV news story about the BC Auditor General's report on drinking water in the province. The report found that...
Videos
Video: Frack Boom in Northeast BC
Gas plants, compression stations, man camps, flare stacks, frack pads, wastewater ponds. The entire landscape of...
Media Releases
Government logging future spotted owl habitat is grossly dishonest says enviro group
VANCOUVER - The B.C. government is allowing massive swaths of forest designated as spotted owl wildlife habitat to be...
Media Releases
Approval of largest ever tar sands mine blatantly ignores climate emergency
VANCOUVER — Wilderness Committee is dumbfounded upon hearing news a Joint Review Panel of federal and provincial...
Videos
Video: Stop Teck Frontier Mine
Teck Frontier mine would add 36 megatonnes of GHG emissions. For reference, that's similar to the entire GHG emissions...
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Oil spill would ‘devastate’ sensitive species in Brunette River, advocates say
New West and Burnaby politicians toured the protected area with environmental advocates Tuesday morning An...
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National Campaigns
Charlotte Dawe: Canadian parks—a dark history and a way forward
Today is National Parks Day, a day to celebrate wilderness and wildlife thriving between protected mountain tops and...
Media Releases
Manitoba
Provincial park destruction discovered by Wilderness Committee
WINNIPEG - A newly bulldozed forest and oil spill lowlights the latest mineral exploration in Nopiming Provincial Park...
News
British Columbia
Raw log exports. BC Today

Truck Loggers Association's David Elstone and Wilderness Committee's Torrance Coste discuss raw law exports from B.C.

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B.C. oil and gas regulator issues key permit for controversial LNG facility near Squamish
VANCOUVER—The BC Oil and Gas Commission has approved a controversial liquefied natural gas project planned for the...

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