Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Water, water everywhere. At this wet time of year, it may not seem that …
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Water, water everywhere. At this wet time of year, it may not seem that …
Continue readingFriday, September 25, 2015 Over six days, Oct. 1-2 and 5-8, eight First Nations will stand up in court against Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines. These Nations, along with four non-profit groups and a labour union, have filed legal challenges to the federal government’s conditional approval of the Northern Gateway Pipeline.
Continue readingFriday, July 24, 2015 In May I spent time with colleagues from the Northwest Institute for Bioregional Research in Treaty 8 territory in northeastern BC listening to Indigenous and non-Indigenous residents talk about the cumulative effects of development projects on the health of their land and communities. Over the past
Continue readingWednesday, May 21, 2014 Send your comments to the provincial government now. As overharvesting and the impacts of climate change reduce timber supply, some timber companies in BC are racing to lock down their logging rights over remaining forest areas. A new provincial proposal would give a small group of
Continue readingMonday, March 31, 2014 The BC government has proposed changes to the Agricultural Land Commission Act thatput our food security seriously at risk. If passed, these changes would restrict the role of the independent chair of the Agricultural Land Commission, one of BC’s biggest agricultural champions. They would also divide
Continue readingFriday, March 14, 2014 Since 2012, the Canadian government has systematically gutted its laws protecting fish. First, it amended the federal Fisheries Act, dramatically weakening protection of fish and fish habitat. Then, it lifted the moratorium on fish farms in BC, opening the door to a massive expansion of aquaculture. Now, it wants to pass
Continue readingWednesday, August 14, 2013 In 1994 Canadians were worried that NAFTA could see our country become a “pollution haven”, and to address those concerns Canada signed on to the NAFTA Environmental Side-Agreement. Twenty years later we are facing just such a fate. Please join us in telling the Commission for
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