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What new relationship with First Nations?
It’s ironic that one day after the BC government announces $100 million to support First Nations capacity on resource issues the RCMP moves in to arrest Tahltan elders and ...
Trade Bullies are Sometimes Right
Canadian pundits, politicians and industry are pillorying the U.S. for their position on various trade issues. As they should–the U.S. is a trade bully, no doubt about it. On ...
News from the Stikine Frontlines
The RCMP has told Tahltan Elders and Youth who have been blockading Fortune Minerals and Shell Canada’s attempts to drill for coal and coalbed methane in the Klappan Sacred ...
Intrawest considering role in Jumbo?
The controversial Jumbo Glacier resort is in the news again with an announcement that an updated master plan has been submitted to B.C.’s Land and Water for review. Since ...
Tahltan remain committed despite injunction
Tahltan Territory, BC – The Tahltan Elders, youth and families were disappointed by the injunction granted against their blockade to protect their lands and people against Fortune Mineral’s open ...
Tahltan Broaden Campaign as Haida Leader Visits
Events are heating up in northwestern BC. In order to counter much of the disinformation being circulated by the mainstream media about what is happening in Tahltan territory, concerned ...
Shell—green wash or hog wash?
With Shell Canada markingthe fifteenth year of their Environment Fund, are the environmental organizations accepting donations from them making the same mistake as the leading arthritis charities that are ...
Shell’s double standards
It is with some skepticism that I read about Shell Canada’s purported alliance with environmentalists over concerns about the Crown’s oversight ofthe future of a 1,000-square-kilometre piece of backcountry ...
BC's Land and Water scattered in reorganization
May Land and Water BC Inc. rest in peace. There is an amazing lack of awareness of a now-eliminated government corporation that had started to remove the “public” from ...
