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Vision TV to air The Corporation
Starting on Wednesday, October 6, Vision TV is airing The Corporation, the award-winning documentary documentary, in three parts, on October 6, 13 and 20. The movie is about the ...
BC's first wind project gets EA approval
The Knob Hill Wind Farm project has obtained an Environmental Assessment Certificate. Congratulations to the folks at Sea Breeze Power Corp. who have shepherded the project this far. Now ...
Community in 17 sensible steps
-By Wendell Berry, Utne Reader Online How can a sustainable local community (which is to say a sustainable local economy) function? I am going to suggest a set of ...
Tree of Life Celebration, October 9
On Saturday, Oct. 9, 500 people will converge in a clearcut on Vancouver Island to form an image using their bodies to be photographed from the air. The effort ...
First Nations challenge resource proposals across the west
Courthouses across the west will be busy this fall with First Nations’ challenges to energy mega-projects and Crown forest policies. The outcome of these decsions could force significant changes ...
Liquified Natural Gas proposed for BC
The latest scheme to maintain North America’s unquenchable demand for fossil fuels may be coming to BC. The Galveston Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) terminal project, proposed to be sited ...
Encana vs. reasonableness and public access
We recently wrote about new law in BC that restricts public access to the names of corporate shareholders. We decided to start testing the law on access to shareholders’ ...
Softwood rises again
With the newish federal government preparing for the fall session, it appears the softwood lumber dispute is going to become headline news once again. (See today’s story from the ...
Jumbo decision Sept 17: Act now!
The BC government will make a decision by September 17 on a controversial ski development in the Jumbo Valley near Invermere, BC. You can express your concern and opposition ...