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Media Releases
Report on Mount Polley and Brazil tailings spills points to systemic problems with mining industry
Major issues remain unresolved four years after catastrophic Mount Polley dam failure VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s...
News
Critical legal decision on Trans Mountain expansion due Thursday
Trans Mountain pipeline expansion faces a key federal court decision on Thursday A long-awaited court decision coming...
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British Columbia
Pipeline protesters rally outside Trudeau cabinet meeting on Vancouver Island
Protesters gather in Nanaimo to speak against prime minister and Trans Mountain pipeline With Prime Minister Justin...
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B.C Supreme Court clears path for Taseko Mines Ltd. to start exploratory drilling in Teztan Biny area
Tsilhqot’tin Nation calls on NDP Government to step in and stop mine program A legal bid by the Tsilhqot’in Nation to...
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Court documents offer revealing glimpse of secretive Site C dam oversight board
Previously unnamed ‘independent’ members of the ‘project assurance board’ include consultant who wrote pro-Site C...
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Wilderness Committee finds clearcut logging in critical habitat of at-risk southern mountain caribou
Mountain Caribou habitat laid low in cutblock R316 located in the Spahats Creek drainage, near the southern boundary...
Videos
Video: Still time to stop logging in Manning Park Donut Hole
Co-Executive Director Joe Foy travels to the Manning Park Donut Hole to discover that logging road construction is at...
Media Releases
British Columbia
Indigenous leaders, environmental activists, citizens to protest federal cabinet meeting
NANAIMO - Hundreds of citizens are expected to take to the streets of Nanaimo today to protest the federal government...
Videos
British Columbia
TV News Story - Federal Liberals face Trans Mountain opposition in Nanaimo
This is a TV news story about the Federal Liberal Cabinet coming to Nanaimo for a meeting. There is strong opposition...
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Ontario
Canada Takes Action To Save the Bees
The Canadian government announced it will ban two pesticides that have been linked to the falling numbers of...
Videos
Video: Trans Mountain pipeline threatens the Fraser River
The Fraser River is at risk of a catastrophic diluted bitumen spill. The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion would cross...
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NDP pressured by Seattle mayor to stop logging near B.C.-Washington state border
Photo: In July, the Wilderness Committee explored an area near E.C. Manning Park and Skagit Valley Provincial Park...
Videos
TV News Story - Pressure builds on BC government to halt logging in Manning Donut Hole
This is a TV news story about growing pressure from people in BC and Washington State to halt logging in the Manning...
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Logging in Upper Skagit River watershed put on hold as Seattle has ‘grave concern’
Photo: At the headwaters of the Skagit River, in British Columbia, logged areas stand out from the dark-green forest...
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Seattle mayor pressures Premier Horgan for 'immediate halt' to logging near Canada-U.S. border
Photo by: Wilderness Committee Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan has written Premier John Horgan to express “grave concern”...
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