Canadian mine disaster is warning to Bristol Bay fishery: Cantwell
An August mining disaster in British Columbia, which harmed a key salmon habitat, is a warning that an enormous proposed open pit mine near Alaska’s Bristol Bay should never be built, Sen. Maria...
View ArticleAdrift, oil laden Russian ship now under tow off British Columbia coast
An oil-laden, 400-foot-long container ship, en route from Everett to Russia, lost power off Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands) in British Columbia, and was adrift in gale winds for nearly a full day...
View ArticleBritish Columbia mine breach ‘a disaster’ that will linger for years
The Aug. 4 dam breach at a British Columbia mine, which sent a huge volume of contaminants into salmon-producing waters, was a “disaster” from which recovery “will take years,” the provincial...
View ArticleBritish Columbia launches much-damned, $8.8 billion dam project
Canada is a nation long addicted to think-big mega-projects that put prime ministers and provincial premiers into the history books, either as visionary architects of prosperity or rubes and...
View ArticleVictoria unlikely to begin treating sewage before 2023
Victoria is not likely to start treating its sewage until 2023, despite adoption this week of what was described as a “very tight” timetable designed to hold on to money promised by Canada’s federal...
View ArticleCongressman to Canadians: Get off the pot on Victoria sewage
A venerable group of visitors from Ottawa, members of the Canada-U.S. Inter-Parliamentary Group, found themselves talking about human waste on Wednesday when they met up with an angry guy from Port...
View ArticleVancouver mayor calls oil-spill response ‘totally inadequate’
The response by Canada’s federal government to an oil spill in Vancouver’s English Bay was “totally inadequate,” Mayor Gregor Robertson said, soon after the spill spread to beaches in West Vancouver....
View ArticleNative band in Canada rejects $1.15 billion inducement from gas pipeline builder
A native band in northern British Columbia has voted to reject a $1.15 billion (Canadian), 40-year payout from a consortium of Asian and North American energy companies that want to cross its land with...
View ArticleBritish Columbia plans to shoot hundreds of wolves from the air
The British Columbia government plans to shoot and kill hundreds of wolves from the air during the next five years in an effort to preserve endangered mountain caribou, with some of the carnage likely...
View ArticleState Department should push Victoria, B.C., to get off the pot on treating...
The U.S. State Department deals with weighty matters of war, peace and global alliances. Now, it is being asked to deal with Victoria’s poop. A new spending bill for Foggy Bottom, the State and...
View Article‘Om the Bridge': Mass yoga session on Vancouver bridge shelved after major...
With fanfare, backed by corporate sponsors who donate to her party, British Columbia Premier Christy Clark announced a mass yoga exercise set for Vancouver, B.C.’s Burrard Street Bridge on June 21, the...
View ArticleCompany in Canadian environmental disaster opens mine on Alaska-bound river
The British Columbia government has approved full operating permits for a controversial gold and copper mine in the Stikine-Iskut River system, which rises in Canada, runs downstream into Alaska and...
View ArticleMontreal will temporarily copy Victoria’s example and dump raw sewage into...
The city of Montreal, to allow for the rebuilding of a highway, plans to dump 8 billion liters of raw sewage into the St. Lawrence River, following the example of Victoria by discharging untreated...
View ArticleWith Keystone XL nixed, Alberta tar sands oil could be headed in our direction
The rejection by President Obama of the Keystone XL caused environmental groups to celebrate as if there is no tomorrow, and filled reporters’ e-mail boxes with self-satisfaction and self-praise from...
View ArticleVancouver, B.C., mayor: Get Trump’s name off our skyscraper
Vancouver, B.C., Mayor Gregor Robertson has asked a local developer to remove Donald Trump’s name from a 63-story skyscraper that will serve as a hotel and residence for the very wealthy. “Trump’s name...
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