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Report from the Field: The 2017 Vancouver Island Trail Building Season
By Torrance Coste, Vancouver Island Campaigner. As September wraps up, so does another season of trail building for...
Neonic Pesticides Kill a LOT More than Bees
Scientists and environmentalists have been warning us for years that pesticides known as neonicotinoids, or neonics...
Group calls for provincial government not to ease hog rules
Dr. John Ikerd, professor emeritus of agricultural economics, University of Missouri, talked about the pork business...
BC Hydro to Reduce Rates Paid to Private Power Producers
Construction of a run-of-river power installation on the Ashlu River. Photo by Bryan Smith, whose film ‘49 Megawatts’...
Torrance Coste, Wilderness Committee - BC's Budget Update
Torrance Coste, Vancouver Island Campaigner, on the new NDP government's BC budget update.
Unions happy but mixed reviews for first NDP budget
‘You can’t turn back the clock on 16 years overnight. That’s not possible,’ Finance Minister Carole James said Monday...
How a Toxicologist Is Saving the California Condor With Science
Sunlight streams through a narrow entryway in Myra Finkelstein’s lab, illuminating the clear plastic bottle that she...
Hog Watch Manitoba and Partners Oppose Manitoba Government’s Red Tape Reduction Proposals
For Immediate Release - September 20, 2017 “Pork and Pollution from Land to Lake: Organic Solutions for a Sustainable...
Tiny Houses, Big Fight
In this episode we bring you to forested mountains in Secwepemc territory where the Secwepemc Nation are building tiny...
Aurora LNG pullout shows fossil fuels a bad bet
VANCOUVER, BC – Wilderness Committee is celebrating yet another nail in the coffin for the fossil fuel industry as...
Modest steps forward, no surprises in BC budget 2017 update
For Immediate Release - September 11, 2017 Modest steps forward, no surprises in budget 2017 update Small and expected...
Wild Times - Bear Stare
September/October 2017 Read Joe Foy's Wild Times column in the Watershed Sentinel, as he looks forward to the day that...
Kinder Morgan reaches milestone on Westridge terminal approval, but hurdles remain
As Kinder Morgan begins to meet federal regulatory conditions on its $7.4-billion Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion...
Making Waves
Wilderness advocate geared up to keep all-terrain vehicles out of parks
Eric Reder The Wilderness Committee is calling on Manitoba to ban the use of all-terrain vehicles within provincial...
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