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How The Big Melt Will Change Life for People and Nature
How The Big Melt Will Change Life for People and Nature As BC’s coastal mountain glaciers recede the effects alter ecosystems. Can human engineering begin to compensate? Second in a series. Pacific white-sided dolphins cruise Knight Inlet. The fjord that receives the melting waters of the Klinaklini Glacier has been home to First Nations for […]
Oil Tanker Spotted in Risky Active Pass Alarms Activists
Oil Tanker Spotted in Risky Active Pass Alarms Activists Officials promise no repeats. But advocates say the incident raises new concerns about regulation of tankers in BC’s waters. Narrow, twisting and busy Active Pass is no place for oil tankers, say advocates. But a loaded tanker travelled through the busy pass last month. Photo by Ruth Hartnup, […]
Old-Growth Forest Logging Approvals Are Soaring in BC
Old-Growth Forest Logging Approvals Are Soaring in BC Companies are rushing to get permits before protection comes for critical areas, advocates say. In the year since the government received a report recommending increased old-growth protection, approvals jumped 43 per cent. Photo by TJ Watt, Ancient Forest Alliance. New mapping released today by the Wilderness Committee indicates […]
With ‘Piecemeal’ Budget, BC Is Headed Towards Climate Failure, Critics Say
With ‘Piecemeal’ Budget, BC Is Headed Towards Climate Failure, Critics Say Province’s investments are ‘very, very small compared to the challenges.’ BC’s budget is a ‘missed opportunity to invest in things like a worker transition, electrifying the transportation sector and protecting our strongest environmental assets like old growth forests,’ says Green Leader Sonia Furstenau. This […]
The Blockaders
The Blockaders As logging resisters near month eight in Fairy Creek, a judge may order their surrender. Inside their last stand for old growth. A Tyee special report. Members of the Fairy Creek Blockade occupy a logging road, preventing loggers for Teal-Jones timber company from moving into one of Vancouver Island’s last old-growth watersheds. Photo by […]
Youth Climate Activists Aim to Rally Support for Indigenous Land Defenders
Youth Climate Activists Aim to Rally Support for Indigenous Land Defenders The Sustainabiliteens hope to show solidarity with TMX protesters. Young activists from across Metro Vancouver will gather outside Environment Canada’s downtown Vancouver offices today in support of Indigenous land defenders. Photo by Jamin Mike. Best known for their ability to draw massive crowds in support […]
Governments Are Making Taxpayers Subsidize Corporate Cleanup of Oil and Gas Wells
Governments Are Making Taxpayers Subsidize Corporate Cleanup of Oil and Gas Wells Companies are responsible for dormant wells, but the public is helping foot the bill. Oil and gas companies are required to clean up their old wells. But governments have decided taxpayers should subsidize them as part of the pandemic response. Photo by Larry McDougal, […]
BC Promised to Protect Old Growth. How Is It Doing?
BC Promised to Protect Old Growth. How Is It Doing? Greens and environmental groups criticize lack of progress, but others defend efforts to make big changes. Logged old-growth red cedar in Kwagu’ł First Nation territory in northern Vancouver Island. Photo by TJ Watt, Ancient Forest Alliance. Six months after releasing a major report on managing and […]
‘A Monstrous Monument to Greed and Stupidity’: Critics React to Site C Decision
‘A Monstrous Monument to Greed and Stupidity’: Critics React to Site C Decision BC Liberals accuse NDP of mismanagement; Greens warn public to brace for higher costs. Premier John Horgan confirmed today that construction of the Site C dam will once again go ahead. ‘I know there are a lot of British Columbians who have […]
How the Wet’suwet’en Solidarity Actions Changed Their Live
How the Wet’suwet’en Solidarity Actions Changed Their Lives A year later, three Indigenous youth behind the 2020 BC legislature protests say the real work still lies ahead. A year after he first took a stand on the steps of the BC legislature, Kolin Sutherland-Wilson and his wife are expecting their first child. Photo by Rodney Mitchell. […]
How BC’s Fossil Fuel Fights Link to a String of Wins in the US
How BC’s Fossil Fuel Fights Link to a String of Wins in the US A thin green line with global impact. Latest in a series on creating a zero-carbon bioregion. Familiar mood, different Vancouver. Protesters block an oil-carrying train in Vancouver, Washington in 2016 — part of a two-decade movement spanning Alaska to California. Photo: Alex […]
Cascadia Was Poised to Lead on Climate. Can It Still?
Cascadia Was Poised to Lead on Climate. Can It Still? BC, Washington and Oregon all aimed to slash emissions. After epic battles, they failed. First in a series on creating a zero-carbon bioregion. Aji Piper, now 20, was 15 when he joined a lawsuit against the US government for failing on climate change. Here he […]
Last Days for BC’s Apple Industry?
Last Days for BC’s Apple Industry? COVID-19 and bad weather have hammered Okanagan orchardists. But low prices are the biggest threat to their survival. First of two. Not only does Sukhdeep Brar have to spend more time and effort to pick the apples on his farm this year, thanks to COVID-19 and bad weather, he […]
India’s Farmer Movement, Indigenous Land Defenders and Hidden Histories
India’s Farmer Movement, Indigenous Land Defenders and Hidden Histories The protests may be half-a-world apart. But they’re both based on a spiritual connection to the land. A mural in East Vancouver depicts Indigenous people paddling out to the Komagata Maru in 1914 provide food for those onboard. Photo submitted. When 250 million workers joined the largest strike […]
Hope for the Best from Canada’s UNDRIP Law. But Expect More of the Same
Hope for the Best from Canada’s UNDRIP Law. But Expect More of the Same Like BC, the federal government is better at talking about Indigenous rights than it is at actually respecting them. The BC government’s claimed commitment to adopting United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples didn’t stop it from ignoring the […]
