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Indigenous Advocate Seeks Justice - Files charges against Imperial Metals Over Biggest Mining Spill in Canada
Vancouver, August 4, 2017, 3h30pm. As today marks the third anniversary of the Mt Polley Mine disaster and the time...
Video: Celebration of Life for Gwen Barlee
Petronas scraps $11.4B Pacific Northwest LNG project
Malaysian national energy giant Petronas and its partners scrapped the Pacific NorthWest LNG megaproject Tuesday...
TV News Story - Pacific Northwest LNG Project Cancelled
This is a TV news story about Petronas pulling thier Pacific LNG project. The Wilderness Committee's Peter McCartney...
PNW LNG cancellation a victory for climate and communities
After a hard-fought campaign from environmentalists and Indigenous peoples to stop Pacific Northwest LNG, the...
TV News Story - Pacific North West LNG Project Cancelled
Malaysian company Petronas announced that they were dropping their Pacific North West Liquified Natural Gas (LNG)...
TV Interview - Torrance Coste on the future of Vancouver Island's old-growth forests
Judge orders a hearing of environmental groups' pesticide case
TORONTO (July 17, 2018) — A Federal Court judge has ruled that a case to protect pollinators from neonicotinoid...
Federal Court rejects attempt to block bee pesticide lawsuit
OTTAWA -- A lawsuit that says a federal agency has consistently approved pesticides without enough information on...
Video: Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson on the passing of Gwen Barlee
Activist Gwen Barlee fought for endangered species
For nearly two decades, Gwen Barlee, who has died at 54, was a dogged environmental activist in British Columbia...
TV News Story - 12th Annual Paddle for the Peace
Wild Times - A change in the air
July/August 2017 Read Joe Foy's Wild Times column in the Watershed Sentinel, as he considers the possible outcome of...
Joe Foy's report from the Paddle for the Peace
Read Joe Foy's report about his recent trip to the Peace River Valley to be Master of Ceremonies for the 12 annual...
Environmental groups back in court over pollinator-killing pesticides
TORONTO – Ecojustice lawyers are in court this week to tell the federal government to buzz off. “Our clients – and the...
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