Wilderness Committee

• Wildlife advocate sounds alarm on new mining project in Manitoba’s north

  NiCAN Limited, has been given the green light, and $300,000, from the province for mineral exploration in Grass River Provincial Park near Snow Lake.

  Environment

  Mar 15
  
• Newly announced Manitoba solar glass project raising red flags for advocates

  'It's not about money, it's about people. It's about people in their environment. Indigenous people, in particular, are connected to the land.'

  Environment

  Feb 15
  
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• ‘Action against fossil fuels’: Climate activists in Vancouver, Victoria join global rally

  Vancouver activists will gather at City Hall for a march to the Vancouver Art Gallery. Victoria demonstrators will meet at the legislature and march through nearby streets.

  Environment

  Sep 15, 2023
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• Environmental groups give B.C. failing grades on old-growth forest protection plan

  B.C. environmental groups say the province is failing to make good on its 2020 promise to protect old-growth trees.

  Environment

  Sep 9, 2022
• Imperial Metals surrenders mining rights in B.C.’s Silverdaisy watershed

  Leo Bodensteiner, U.S. co-chair of the Skagit Environmental Endowment Commission, says the watershed is a critical corridor for salmon, steelhead and bull trout.

  Environment

  Jan 20, 2022
• Manitoba conservation group worries about wildlife after part of park now being run privately

  The province attributes the move to an effort to revitalize St. Ambroise Beach Provincial Park, which was heavily damaged in 2011 by flooding from Lake Manitoba.

  Environment

  Jun 9, 2021
• B.C. government protecting nine areas of at risk and old-growth forest in logging policy shift

  The B.C. government is banning the logging of at risk and old-growth forests in nine different areas throughout the province.

  Environment

  Sep 11, 2020
• Hope in Manitoba in face of climate change

  Eric Reder of the Wilderness Committee says the province of Manitoba is among the more environmentally-friendly areas in Canada.

  Environment

  Feb 8, 2019
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• Group preparing Trans Mountain legal challenge argues government’s mind already made up

  A Vancouver-based environment charity is readying itself to go back to court if — or they believe when — the federal government re-approves the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

  Economy

  Dec 18, 2018
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• B.C. Premier John Horgan meets federal cabinet in Nanaimo, no movement on Trans Mountain

  "Our position remains the same."

  Politics

  Aug 22, 2018