As the fog lifted on the Peace River Monday morning, it revealed this clearcut island (Donald Hoffmann) BC Hydro’s clearcut logging this past weekend at the location of the proposed…
Location of proposed Site C Dam – slated for imminent clearcutting (photo: Damien Gillis) The Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM) passed several resolutions at its annual gathering this week calling…
Gitxsan leaders of Madii Lii Camp are standing behind the Lax Kw’alaams (submitted) Several First Nations groups are banding together to block early work by contractors for Petronas’ Lelu Island…
Tsartlip Chief Don Tom opposing another unwanted project – construction of a luxury home on burial grounds The Tsartlip First Nation on southern Vancouver Island is weighing in on a…
Green candidate Ken Melamed doesn’t see a future for Woodfibre LNG (facebook/Mitch Stookey) Local NDP and Green candidates are steadfastly opposed to the Woodfibre LNG project near Squamish, reveals a…
Unist’ot’en Camp leader Freda Huson speaks to RCMP on July 15 (Youtube video screen capture/Stimulator) You’d hope we’d come a long way since the crises of Gustafsen Lake and Oka…
The battle over Malaysian energy giant Petronas’ controversial LNG terminal in the Skeena River Estuary is intensifying, as local Lax Kw’alaams First Nation members are setting up camp on Lelu…
Treaty 8 First Nations are seeking an injunction as BC Hydro rushes to cut down a number of Bald Eagles’ nests along the Peace River, starting next month, for Site…
An existing BC salmon farm (Damien Gillis) It was an unwelcome surprise on the eve of BC Day for critics of open net pen salmon farms: the Liberal government’s quiet…
Battle lines are being drawn and sides taken in what is shaping up to be an epic fight over the the $9 Billion proposed Site C Dam. On one side…
Former Council of the Haida Nation President Guujaaw (left) and Heiltsuk resource management director Kelly Brown at last week’s peace treaty celebration in Bella Bella (Damien Gillis) Three powerful coastal…
Grand Chief Stewart Phillip is among the First Nations leaders demanding a halt to Site C construction (D. Gillis) BC Hydro is intent on bulldozing ahead with Site C Dam…
Harold Steves and fellow Richmond councillors voted unanimously for a public review of LNG tankers (Damien Gillis) Richmond Council yesterday unanimously passed a motion calling for a full environmental review…
Independent biologist Alexandra Morton explains her recent federal court victory over the salmon farming industry. The ruling prohibits salmon farmers from transferring diseased smolts to their open net pen operations…
Premier Christy Clark announcing…the same thing she’s announced many times before (BC Government) For all the fanfare of yesterday’s press conference, you’d think Premier Christy Clark would have some big,…
While the BC Liberal government and BC Hydro are vowing to break ground on the controversial $9 Billion Site C Dam this summer, the projects faces numerous legal challenges –…
Peace River Valley farmland (Damien Gillis) Read this May 14 story by the Richmond Review on the BC Liberal government’s decision to fire Agricultural Land Commission CEO Richard Bullock after…
Lelu Island and Flora Bank (fore) – site of contentious proposed LNG plant (Skeena Watershed Conservation) The BC Liberal government and LNG industry suffered a blow this week with a…
Location of proposed Site C Dam (photo: Damien Gillis) The federal government struck out in court Friday in its attempt to gut key passages of the Doig River First Nation’s…
Screen capture from www.arcgis.com “On April 8, 2015, with the stroke of a pen, the BC Government made the largest exclusion of land from the Agricultural Land Reserve in BC…
