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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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British Columbia
The government agency at the centre of B.C.’s old-growth logging showdown

BC Timber Sales has become a lightning rod for controversy, with many expressing dismay over the NDP’s ‘business as...

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Lines drawn on planned B.C. park reserve where many species at risk live
OSOYOOS, B.C. — A next step in preserving one of Canada’s most ecologically diverse regions has been reached between...

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