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First Nations Stand Their Ground Against Prosperity Mine at BC Supreme Court

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The Tsilhqot’in First Nations and their supporters have been at the BC Supreme Court this week, fighting for an injunction to keep Taseko Mines from commencing work on the controversial proposed Prosperity Mine – amid Tsilhqot’in traditional territory, southwest of Williams Lake. While the Harper Government recently agreed to examine a new version of the mine it already rejected last year, the BC Government has pushed ahead, granting the company permits to begin work. The result is an accelerating stand-off between First Nations, Taseko and the Clark Government – highlighted at this rally outside the courthouse on Monday.

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What ISA Salmon Virus Did to Chile: Damien Gillis’ 2009 Photo Essay

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In the wake of the discovery of catastrophic Infectious Salmon Anemia in wild Pacific sockeye this week, The Common Sense Canadian revisits Damien Gillis’ 2009 photo essay documenting how the same deadly disease wiped out the Chilean salmon farming industry in a few short years. While Chile doesn’t have wild salmon like BC, the ISA outbreak wrought significant cultural and socio-economic devastation on the country. Now it threatens to destroy BC’s wild salmon stocks. Damien visited Chile’s Region 10 in September 2009, at the height of the crisis – here’s what he saw.

Click the image below to view the slide show.


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Rafe & Damien on EVOTV (Part 2)

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Watch part 2 of Rafe and Damien’s discussion on Shaw’s EVOTV, with host Irma Arkus. In this episode, the pair talk wild salmon and aquaculture, private power and environmental politics in BC. Damien Gillis: “This isn’t free enterprise – it’s piracy. It’s a bunch of people looking out for their pals – global corporations that have taken over our whole system of governance; and it’s about whether we’re going to get back to common sense, public-oriented policy.” (30 min – taped in late July) Watch Part 1

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Rafe & Damien on EVOTV (Part 1)

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Rafe Mair and Damien Gillis discuss The Common Sense Canadian and their coverage of key environmental and public policy issues in BC and Canada on Shaw’s EVOTV, with host Irma Arkus. The three cover a wide range of issues in the half hour program – from private river power and the state of BC Hydro to oil pipelines and supertankers on our coast, natural gas fracking, coal mines, salmon farms and the Cohen Commission into disappearing Fraser River sockeye. (Aug 8, 2011)

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Musgamagw Unite in Response to Marine Harvest Breach

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It’s the latest chapter in a long and increasingly heated battle between BC’s coastal First Nations and the Norwegian salmon farmers that operate in their waters. The Musgamagw-Tsawataineuk peoples of the Broughton Archipelago recently gathered in the village of Gwayasdums in response to a serious breach of protocol by Marine Harvest, the largest open net cage fish farm operator in the region. On June 27, the company made an unauthorized boat trip through the territory, using elders to gather valuable information about the history and cultural sites of the area – underhanded tactics that take place amidst a high-stakes legal battle between the aquaculture industry and these same First Nations. Hereditary and elected leaders, matriarchs and community members emerged from the meeting in Gwayasdums united, with renewed resolve to rid their territory of open net cage salmon farms.

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Citizens Rally in Vancouver to Stop Smart Meters

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A number of citizens and organizations – including the BC Public
Interest Advocacy Centre and the Clean Energy Foundation – gathered
recently in Vancouver at the headquarters of BC Hydro to speak out
against BC Liberal government’s Billion-dollar smart meter program.
Criticism of smart meters ranges from concerns over expense to taxpayers
and ratepayers to serious health threats from electromagnetic radiation.
Here are some highlights from the event. To learn more about what you can do, see Citizens for Safe Technology’s Smart Meter Action Kit.

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Site C Would Destroy Prime Farmland, Fuel Fracking & Tar Sands

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At a recent event in Vancouver, biologist and Peace Valley Environment
Association representative Diane Culling discussed the enormous
consequences of the proposed Site C Dam – including the flooding of
prime farmland at a time when the province faces major food security
challenges. Culling also pointed out that much of the electricity
generated from the project would go to fueling destructive shale gas
development in northeast BC, and, by extension, the Alberta Tar Sands. (3 min)

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Joe Foy on Why We Don’t Need Site C Dam

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At a recent event in Vancouver, the Wilderness Committee’s Joe Foy picked apart the BC Liberal Government’s faulty case for Site C Dam – discussing better alternatives to power our future needs and the enormous cost of a dam whose real purpose is to subsidize shale gas and coal mines. In his inimitable style, Joe makes it clear that the province’s ratepayers and taxpayers are being tricked into paying over $8 Billion for a dam they don’t need – with enormous impacts on the environment, our food security and First Nations’ traditional territory.

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