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Community Forest advocates struggle against Ministry's double standard

February 1, 2005 | 

Last summer we wrote about signs of renewed support within government for community forests . Events of the past few months suggest that the signals ...

How bad forest policies hurt communities like Port Alice

January 24, 2005 | 

Over the last few months British Columbians have been inundated by slick television commercials combining beautiful scenery with happy faces espousing platitudes about BC’s investment climate, job growth, and ...

Dirty Oil – Pipeline Politics

January 18, 2005 | 

The New Year has begun, but if you’ve been reading the newspapers, 2005 looks like more of the same from our Canadian governments, particularly BC and Alberta. We’re seeing ...

STV

January 17, 2005 | 

Click below for some useful links about STV: Wikipedia explanation:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Transferable_Vote Click “1.3 An example” to see the simplified illustration of how the vote occurs. Click 4 “in practice” ...

Making Coal an Election Issue

January 17, 2005 | 

Coal-mining and coal-fired generation and coalbed methane development are intensifying at an alarming rate in BC. These are potentially hot provincial election issues. Coal is the most noxious fossil ...

GSX Pipeline Project Cancelled

December 20, 2004 | 

Grassoots activists achieved a major victory with the announcement that the ill-advised and much-despised Georgia Straight crossing gas pipline (GSX) has finally been rejected. While the decision today to ...

"Haida 3" – what you can expect from government

December 16, 2004 | 

It has been almost a month since the judgement of the Supreme Court of Canada in the Haida and Taku cases. If you’ve followed Dogwood Initiative’s coverage of the ...

Canadian Exploration Expense

December 10, 2004 | 

Are Canadians paying oil & gas companies to explore? It’s worse than that. The Canadian Exploration Expense tax dodge is so perverse that it actually encourages investments which result ...

Kemess North: First Nations, fish and government process

December 8, 2004 | 

Northgate Minerals’ proposal to use Duncan Lake to dispose of tailings and acid drainage from its Kemess North mine expansion is getting a lot of attention. Don Whiteley wrote ...