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Seven Years after Mount Polley Disaster, Mine Waste Still Flows into Quesnel Lake
Seven Years after Mount Polley Disaster, Mine Waste Still Flows into Quesnel Lake A ‘temporary’ permit allows wastewater to be dumped in the water. That may not change anytime soon. The view from Quesnel Lake toward Mount Polley Mine’s tailings pond shows the scarred landscape following a breach of the mine’s tailings dam on Aug. […]
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 […]
Babine Lake Mines Leaking Dangerous Contaminants into Salmon Habitat, Say Critics
Babine Lake Mines Leaking Dangerous Contaminants into Salmon Habitat, Say Critics Advocates want greater oversight as a mapping project identifies more than 170 mines putting waterways at risk. Effluent from the Bell Mine, closed in 1992, remains in ponds near the shore of Babine Lake, a critical salmon habitat. Photo from SkeenaWild Conservation Trust. Two closed […]
Indigenous Land Rights Action Blocks Northern BC Highway
Indigenous Land Rights Action Blocks Northern BC Highway Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en members join day of action to support Ontario nation locked in conflict over development on its traditional territory. About 50 people marched on Highway 16 in New Hazelton as part of a national day of action on Indigenous land rights. Photo by Amanda Follett Hosgood. […]
Coastal GasLink Gets Green Light to Start Pipeline Work Near Unist’ot’en Healing Centre
Coastal GasLink Gets Green Light to Start Pipeline Work Near Unist’ot’en Healing Centre BC approves impact studies and calls for consultation with Wet’suwet’en as work proceeds in contested area. The province’s Environmental Assessment Office has granted Coastal GasLink permission to begin pipeline construction near the Unist’ot’en Healing Centre, the scene of a standoff and arrests in February. […]
Wet’suwet’en Fear Contaminated Soil Cleanup Is Creating New Risks
Wet’suwet’en Fear Contaminated Soil Cleanup Is Creating New Risks Waste from diesel spills by Coastal GasLink and RCMP is being dumped in local landfill. Efforts to clean up diesel spills by the RCMP and Coastal GasLink in Wet’suwet’en territory risk spreading the contamination, the First Nation has warned. Mike Ridsdale, environmental assessment co-ordinator for the […]
Amidst National Crisis, Province Gives Unist’ot’en an Ultimatum
Amidst National Crisis, Province Gives Unist’ot’en an Ultimatum Meet with pipeline company within 30 days or decision will be made without you, Environmental Assessment Office says. The office found Coastal GasLink had not provided the information needed to allow the office to assess the project’s impact. But it said that was because the company had […]
‘Each Moment Here Is a Victory’: Wet’suwet’en Supporters Aren’t Backing Down
‘Each Moment Here Is a Victory’: Wet’suwet’en Supporters Aren’t Backing Down RCMP ‘exclusion zone’ isn’t deterring anti-pipeline activists, land defenders. A report from the scene. Thirty-nine kilometres down the Morice Forest Service Road in northern British Columbia, people huddle around a fire, close enough to feel some heat but not enough to melt their boots. […]
One Year after RCMP Raid, Tensions Rise as Wet’suwet’en Evict Pipeline Company
One Year after RCMP Raid, Tensions Rise as Wet’suwet’en Evict Pipeline Company ‘It’s unnerving that might be our reality again.’ One year after a police raid in northern British Columbia attracted international attention, tensions between Wet’suwet’en land defenders and Coastal GasLink are rising once again. The company’s recent victory in winning a court decision granting […]
