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Feds announce spill plan
The federal government has announced new measures to protect oceans and improve marine safety. Prime Minister Justin...
Justin Trudeau announces $1.5 billion ocean protection plan
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced a $1.5 billion ocean-protection plan. Speaking in Vancouver on Monday, he...
Woodfibre says it is proceeding with B.C.’s first LNG project
Woodfibre LNG has become the first energy project in British Columbia to forge ahead with plans to construct a...
Premier Christy Clark announces Woodfibre LNG ready to begin construction of facility near Squamish
Christy Clark might soon finally have her first liquefied-natural-gas (LNG) plant under construction. This morning...
Noted BC Forest Defender Valerie Langer wins Eugene Rogers Environmental Award
VANCOUVER – The Wilderness Committee is pleased to announce that the 2016 Eugene Rogers Environmental Award is being...
Video: Wilderness Committee Projects for the Year ending April 2016
This is a 37 minute video about some of the projects that the Wilderness Committee undertook in the period between May...
Wild Times - Skytrain Salmon
November/December 2016 Read Joe Foy's Wild Times column in the Watershed Sentinel, as he looks at what it takes to...
TV News Story - Trump win puts pressure on BC environment
This is a TV news story about the effect that the new US leader, Donald Trump is predicted to have on British Columbia...
Coalition Hosting a Public Town Hall on Revising Canada’s Environmental Laws
WINNIPEG — Leading environment and policy groups are driving the conversation about Canada’s environmental laws by...
Federal government's Oceans Protection Plan an act of theatre
VANCOUVER, BC — Spill response measures announced in Vancouver by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Minister of...
Bella Bella diesel spill response ‘a joke’, say critics
A major setback for crews trying to contain a fuel spills on B.C.’s central coast: one of the booms around the...
Woodfibre LNG decision an investment in climate peril
VANCOUVER, BC — On the heels of a final investment decision by Singapore-based RGE Pte.Ltd on Woodfibre LNG...
PM’s pipeline panel has only made things worse
Vancouver Observer - November 3, 2016 By Peter McCartney - Wilderness Committee Climate Campaigner There’s nothing...
Pipeline report glosses over opposition
VANCOUVER, BC — A just released federal government report about the public meetings held this past summer about the...
Walbran Wednesday Nov 2nd Target Announcement
Another month, another round of #WalbranWednesday! This #WalbranWednesday, we’re calling on Minister of Environment...
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