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News
World-heritage park worries threaten to bog down Teck’s oil-sands plans
Vancouver-based Teck Resources Ltd. is facing opposition to its proposed Frontier oil sands mining operation owing to...
Videos
Video: Help stop logging in the heart of Manning and Skagit Provincial Parks
Right now the BC government's own logging operation is constructing logging roads in the heart of Manning and Skagit...
Videos
TV News Story - The 13th annual Paddle for the Peace
This is a TV news story about the 2018 Paddle for the Peace, an annual canoe gathering to bring attention to the fight...
Videos
Video: Paddle for the Peace
The Wilderness Committee's Joe Foy has just returned from this year's Paddle for the Peace, an annual gathering in...
Media Releases
Manning and Skagit Provincial parks no place for logging
VANCOUVER - A B.C. environmental group is crying foul after discovering BC Timber Sales (BCTS) logging road...
News
Manitoba
Lake Overload- Eric Reder Interviewed by CJOB
You can read our Lake Overload report here. You can write a message to decision makers asking them to put nature to...
Columns
Editorial: Ken Farquharson and Tom Perry: Horgan should cancel logging plans for Skagit Valley
Editorial: KEN FARQUHARSON & DR. TOM PERRY Vancouver Sun - July 8, 2018 B.C. Timber Sales is about to tender cutblocks...
News
Provinces and territories agree to protect more land and water, McKenna says
Canada's provinces and territories have agreed to an ambitious federal target to protect more land and freshwater by...
News
Sage grouse protection order challenged by Alberta city, oil company
Order restricts oil production in areas near the sage grouse's habitat Canadian Press A southern Alberta city and an...
News
Judge permits Taseko Mines to continue work near Prosperity site over objections of federal government
Photo: Fish Lake The proposed New Prosperity mine southwest of Williams Lake has been one of B.C.'s longest-running...
News
Governments want Mt. Kobau included in national park reserve, documents reveal
Photo: View from Mount Kobau towards Osoyoos. Soon after the new B.C. NDP government came to power last July, they...
Media Releases
Manitoba
Ontario
New report calls on Canadian governments to protect shorelines, control nutrient overload from farmland
WINNIPEG, MB – In a new report, Lake Overload, the Wilderness Committee is calling on the Canadian government to take...
News
Site C: A Shakespearean Tragedy of BC Politics
A review of the book Breaching the Peace by Victoria journalist Sarah Cox Breaching the Peace: The Site C Dam and a...
Columns
Wild Times - Tanker Tracking
June 18, 2018 Wild Times by Joe Foy I took up a new hobby this year. Tanker tracking became my consuming passion in...
News
British Columbia
Province aims to strengthen legacy tree policy meant to preserve old growth giants
Environmentalists say B.C. Timber Sales allowing massive fir and cedar trees to be cut on Vancouver Island The B.C...
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