‘Divided loyalties’ hamper wild fisheries protection: Justice Cohen
Justice Bruce Cohen delivered his much-anticipated report on the collapse of the Fraser River sockeye fishery on Oct. 31, to muted applause from First Nations and environmentalists.
Tag Archives: Environment
Reserve leader ponders ‘nature’s wrath’ in wake of Sandy
When Hurricane Sandy hit with full force on the U.S. Eastern Seaboard –shuttering New York’s famed subway system, shattering neighbourhoods and killing at least 70 people, including two in Canada – its superstorm remnants blazed north across the border.
Kinder Morgan Pitches Oil Sands Pipeline Expansion to Skeptics on Both Sides of Border
A proposal to more than double a pipeline from Canada’s oil sands to tanker terminals in Burnaby, British Columbia, and Anacortes and Ferndale, Washington, is drawing fire from First Nations on both sides of the border who say the risks to traditional territories and waters are unacceptable.
Kinder Morgan launches BC consultations on controversial pipeline expansion
Energy giant Kinder Morgan is holding public consultations across the Lower Mainland over the next several weeks, bringing its proposed TransMountain pipeline expansion under public scrutiny.
Three Days of Protests Led by Aboriginals in B.C. Underscore and Unite Pipeline Opposition
Melina Laboucan-Massimo’s family has felt the impacts of an oil spill disaster firsthand on their Lubicon Cree territories in Alberta: burning eyes, headaches, nausea and dizziness.
Pipeline and tanker proposals face historic three days of protest across B.C.
An historic three straight days of protests against oil sands, pipelines and tankers took place across B.C. from Oct. 22 to 24, led by a coalition of First Nations, environmental and labour groups.
Labour, environmentalists and First Nations ‘diametrically opposed’ to tankers and pipelines
At least 4,000 people rallied on the steps of B.C.’s Legislature for Defend Our Coast — the largest protest yet against transporting chemical-laden bitumen from Alberta’s oil sands to the West Coast.
Aboriginals at Forefront of Major Anti-Oil Sands Protest in Victoria, B.C.
First Nations from across British Columbia are traveling to the provincial capital, Victoria, on Monday for what is being billed as the largest civil disobedience protest against the oil sands, pipelines and tanker ships yet.
David Suzuki: ‘We’ve got to be ready to put our bodies on the line’
a conversation between renowned broadcaster and scientist David Suzuki, and Media Mornings on Vancouver Co-op Radio.
Athabasca Chipewyan Launch Treaty 8 Challenge to Shell Canada Over Oil Sands
A First Nation whose land sits in the heart of the Alberta oil sands has ramped up its legal battle against the oil sands industrial development.
David P Ball 