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A Fracking Disaster in the Making
Article by Andrew Nikiforuk at The Tyee. “The earth-shattering exploitation of deep deposits of shale rock for natural gas production has broken global records in northeast British Columbia and now threatens critical water supplies across the country, warns a new Munk School of Global Affairs report by award-winning B.C. journalist Ben Parfitt.” Read article
Activists stage slick protest over tankers
Article by Kent Spencer in The Province. “Ten shivering bathers, covered in brown molasses and sand, collapsed on the beach in a mock ‘die-in’ to call attention to the dangers of tanker traffic in local waters.” Read article
Big business keeps on truckin’ while MLAs see red light
Article by Brian Lewis in The Province. “Whatever the trucking industry wants in Delta, the trucking industry gets.
At least that’s how the community’s two MLAs see it after Delta’s municipal council quietly slipped through approval late this summer for Maersk Distribution, a division of one of the world’s largest shipping corporations, to launch a six-month pilot project utilizing extra-long trucking units — each about 30.5-metres long — to run from Deltaport’s container terminal to its centre on River Road.” Read article
The Anti-Salmon: A Fish We Can Finally Farm Without Guilt
Article by Barry Estabrook in The Atlantic. “Joshua Goldman, working in the unlikely setting of a collection of warehouse-like buildings in an industrial park near an airport in Turners Falls, a village in western Massachusetts’s Pioneer Valley, is attempting to undo fish farming’s fundamental wrong turn.” Read article
Pipeline Plan Slams into $120 Million Coastal Eco-Pact
Article by Geoff Dembicki at The Tyee. “How do you develop a pristine eco-system? Or do you develop it at all?
Green groups, First Nations and logging companies fought bitterly over these issues during the decades-long campaign to protect the coastal Great Bear Rainforest.” Read article
Light rail to the valley
Story by CBC British Columbia. A new report says a light rail commuter line with 18 stops from Surrey to Chilliwack, B.C., would be an inexpensive way to beat traffic congestion in the Fraser Valley.
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Fish Lake’s Top Defender, Joe Alphonse
Article by Dawn Paley at The Tyee. Joe Alphonse: “At the end of the day, even if the federal government approves this mine, that’s still not a guarantee that the mine is going to become a reality, because we would then be forced to continue to look after our interest. If we have to get on the roads, we’ll get on the roads, if we have to step in the courts, we’ll step in the courts.” Read article
How the end of cheap oil could finally bring the NHL to Hamilton
Article by Ray Turchansky in the Victoria Times Colonist. “[Jeff] Rubin’s message, delivered during the Canadian conference of the Risk and Insurance Management Society Inc. in Edmonton, essentially predicts a last hurrah for oil, as cheap conventional supplies run out and the world turns to more expensive synthetics from oilsands.” Read article
Salmon farms, sea lice main cause of huge drop in coho: Studies
Article by Crawford Killian at The Tyee. New research offers more evidence that open-pen salmon farming is causing “major declines in wild fish populations,” according to a news release from the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform. Read article