Media Centre

George Heyman: Executive Director
Sarah Cox: Communications Director
Ana Simeon: Communications Coordinator
Susan Howatt: Director of Campaigns and Community Engagement
Colin Campbell, PhD: Areas of expertise: Marine use planning, greenhouse gas emissions, carbon offsets, community climate policy.
Jens Wieting: Areas of expertise: Great Bear Rainforest, Ecosystem Based Management, forests and carbon
Caitlyn Vernon

SIERRA CLUB CANADA TO APPEAL THE GAS N GO DECISION Feb 09, 2010: Sierra Club Canada is appealing the BC Supreme Court decision on the Gas N Go project in Comox Valley, British Columbia. The court ruled against Sierra Club Canada’s request to quash the issuing of a development permit for the gas station, which if built would devastate an important watershed.
Health and Environmental Organizations Call for a Province-wide Ban on Lawn and Garden Pesticides Jan 14, 2010: We support the BC Government’s interest in safeguarding the environment from cosmetic chemical pesticides and call for new legislation
B.C.’s Endangered ‘Reindeer’ Threatened by New Mining Rules Jan 11, 2010: B.C.’s 125-year-old Mining Act Creates Double Standard in Mountain Caribou Habitat
The B.C. government has created new, relaxed rules for the mining industry that allow exploration companies to log and road-build in designated mountain caribou habitat that is off-limits to forestry companies, BC environmental groups revealed today.
Woodworking unions and environmentalists propose bold new plan to protect forests and jobs while fighting climate change Jan 11, 2010: Forest industry unions and leading environmental groups have united behind a plan that calls on the BC government to conserve more forest, halt rampant wood waste and promote wise use of forest products — all as part of a concerted effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Dry ski slopes will be least of B.C.'s troubles Feb 08, 2010: Among the changes environmental groups want to see are laws that protect in-stream flows. In other words, they want B.C.'s water laws to recognize that fish and wildlife, as well as people, depend on water.
In the beginning, there was winter Feb 01, 2010: If you number a Garry Oak among your neighbours, observe how next season's buds are already formed, waiting snugly for the moment of unfurling.
Flathead: Environmental Disaster? Jan 26, 2010: Global TV takes a look at the United Nations' World Heritage Committee report recommendation that mining be banned in the Flathead River Valley.
Canadian government flaunted CEAA law to favour proposed mine Jan 23, 2010: Canada's Supreme Court handed down a ruling described by one environmental organization as 'disturbing,' for allowing a proposed mine to proceed while chastising the Government of Canada for failing to uphold its own law.

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