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British Columbia Pesticide Ban Campaign Gains Traction
May 10, 2012ENews Park Forest
- British Columbia (BC) may become the eighth Canadian province to ban cosmetic (lawn care) pesticides after the Special Committee on Cosmetic Pesticides submit their recommendations to the legislature later this month.
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New Rules Give Panel Little Power: Sierra Club
May 10, 2012The Vancouver Sun
- George Heyman, executive director of Sierra Club B.C., said there are two major changes in the terms of reference compared to the panel that concluded the project shouldn't go ahead.
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B.C. redraws provincial parks map
May 08, 2012The Vancouver Sun
- More than 550,000 hectares will be added to the province's parks and protected areas under legislation introduced Monday, the Ministry of Environment announced. However, the province will remove 2.36 hectares from Stawamus Chief Provincial Park near Squamish, potentially paving the way for a controversial sightseeing gondola project to proceed.
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Link between Parks on Quadra Island Takes Step Forward
May 08, 2012The Times Colonist
- Quadra Island residents are cheering a government move that could seal a deal to purchase key tracts of land linking a pair of marine provincial parks.
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Sorting seafood at Co-op grocery stores
May 04, 2012Regina Leader-Post
- Question: how do you get folks on the landlocked Canadian Prairies to care about imperilled fish stocks in the Atlantic and Pacific? Answer: make it easier for them to shop for seafood that doesn’t necessarily come from threatened fish stocks.
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Reeling in Eco-Friendly Catch
May 03, 2012CalgaryNewswire
- Calgary Co-op has gone eco-fishing for our member-owners and reeled in ocean-friendly seafood options with a new labeling system, to help make shopping for environmentally responsible fresh and frozen seafood products easier.
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Field Notes from Rithet's Bog
May 01, 2012The Island Parent
- Early morning is a busy time on the water. By now our presence has been forgotten, or accepted, and all attention is given to the serious business of breakfast. The Mallards harvest the shallows, up-ending to reach the muddy bottom. A female Red-Winged Blackbird scurries up and down the cattails in search of bugs, maybe even adding a straw or two to her new nest as she goes.
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Entertainment that's good for you
Apr 25, 2012The Times Colonist
- Hollywood's best horror masters couldn't come up with a doomsday thriller as chilling as Surviving Progress, Open Cinema's ninth season finale fundraiser, followed by a discussion with author and historian Ronald Wright.
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Sea to Sky Gondola proposal riles former B.C. environment minister
Apr 19, 2012The Georgia Straight
- Former B.C. environment minister John Cashore remembers the “beautiful day” back in 1995 when he got to announce the creation of Stawamus Chief Provincial Park.
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Sound Off
Apr 18, 2012Sierra Magazine
- was precisely the kind of ship-sinking weather that has the Gitga'at and every other First Nations tribe in the Great Bear up in arms over the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline, which would pump Alberta tar sands oil to the nearby port of Kitimat.
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More tanker traffic in the Burrard Inlet
Apr 17, 2012Global TV - News Hour
- View a Global TV press clip on the expansion of the Kinder-Morgan pipeline and the gutting of the federal environmental assessment.
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Caitlyn Vernon on NPR
Apr 13, 2012Delmarva Today
- Listen to Caitlyn Vernon's interview about her book on public radio in the US.
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A Double Threat
Apr 09, 2012The Mark
- This is the final article in a three-part series on Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest. This final instalment looks at the specific threat to the forest and its ecosystem from the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline project.
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Land Conservancy of B.C. opposes removal of corridor from Stawamus Chief Provincial Park
Apr 06, 2012Straight.com
- The conservation organization that formerly owned the base property for the Sea to Sky Gondola project in Squamish has come out against the proponent's proposal to remove land from Stawamus Chief Provincial Park.
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B.C. greenhouse vegetable and flower growers get carbon tax relief this year
Apr 03, 2012Global TV BC
- Sierra Club president George Heyman said giving the agriculture sector a break seems like an ad hoc approach to addressing issues with the carbon tax so soon after the review was announced.
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A Forest Like No Other
Apr 03, 2012The Mark
- This is the second article in a three-part series on Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest. This second article describes what makes the Great Bear Rainforest so significant – and worthy of full protection.
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Not a done deal yet
Mar 30, 2012The Squamish Chief
- Like it or not, their voices matter, too, and this is not about majority rules. To some extent, this writer has to agree with the Sierra Club’s George Heyman’s contention that reclassifying land from a Class A provincial park is not a something to be done capriciously.
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Environmental assessment process overhauled
Mar 29, 2012Times Colonist
- The budget takes aim at environmental critics by adding new resources to the Canada Revenue Agency, as charity laws are amended to stop conservation groups from taking part in activities considered political.
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SLRD expected to hold Sea to Sky Gondola public hearing in April
Mar 23, 2012Straight.com
- Environmentalists with Sierra Club B.C. and the Wilderness Committee have expressed concern that changing the boundaries of the Chief park could lead to other provincial parks facing pressure from private developers.
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The War in the Woods
Mar 23, 2012The Mark
- This is the first article in a three-part series on Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest. February marked the six-year anniversary of the Great Bear Rainforest Agreements, which were celebrated around the world as one of the greatest rainforest conservation stories of our time.
