Article by Sean Holman in The Tyee. “The main question is why should California weaken its environmental standards to accommodate what the British Columbia government wants?” – California Hydropower Reform Coalition director Keith Nakatani Read article
Article by Mike de Souza for Canwest News Service. “Federal politicians from the government and opposition benches have mysteriously cancelled an 18-month investigation into oilsands pollution in water and opted to destroy draft copies of their final report.” Read article
Article in the Victoria Times Colonist. “The government’s reasons for continuing this costly fight to keep scientific data secret are unknown. But it is creating the perception that the ministry is more interested in the well-being of salmon-farming companies than in the health of wild salmon and the right of the public to basic facts in the ministry’s possession.” Read article
Article by Damian Inwood in The Province. “At the centre of the debate is the
fact that the Westridge Terminal, east of the Second Narrows, has quietly become a major exporter of crude oil, coming in via the Trans Mountain pipeline from Alberta.”
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Follow-up article by Frank Luba in The Province. Vancouver council reviews possibility of oil spill in B.C. waters
Article by Tamara Beluja in The Province. The negative evaluation of the review panel wasn’t enough to kill this project. Read article
Article by Brian Lewis in The Province, about a proposal for a gravel mine directly upstream of the Chilliwack River Salmon Hatchery. Read article
Article by Frances Bula in the Globe and Mail. “Is [Gregor Robertson’s] public initiative just the natural byproduct of his many connections to green groups in B.C. and in the United States? Or is there something more, such as ambitions to build his résumé for a future in federal politics?” Read article
Article by Jonathan Ross on civicscene.ca. “Oh, and did I mention that Krause has worked as a consultant for Millerd Holdings Ltd. which has interests in processing farmed salmon on Vancouver Island, and for Salmon of the Americas, an international salmon farming trade organization.” Read article
Article by Ethan Baron in The Province.
“The Liberals have gone to extreme lengths to try to withhold government-collected information on sea lice and disease in salmon farms.
“For six years, government lawyers fought to keep data out of the hands of an environmental group, until the province’s public-information watchdog ordered in March that it be released.
“Now the government is trying to block release of updated data that the T. Buck Suzuki Environmental Foundation says is crucial for the group’s submission to the Cohen Commission, a federal inquiry into the collapse of the Fraser River sockeye.”
Article by Vaughn Palmer in the Vancouver Sun.
“4. Campbell then ordered finance ministry officials to ‘go out and find
out how we’re going to meet the budget target.’ Next day they:
a) Cancelled plans to add a $600-million roof to BC Place.
b) Sought to borrow another $1 billion at the very attractive interest rates available to government.
c) Fired off a fast e-mail to Ottawa, asking what was the standing offer for transition funding on the HST.”