Pulp mill closures and economic losses reveal deeper structural problems in BC’s forestry system and the looming crisis of forest falldown.

Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technology represents the fossil fuel industry’s last stand. Hawking expensive, speculative technology to suck CO2 out of the air and store it ...

On a forestry road north of Kispiox, Gitxsan land protectors have set up a blockade to protest the Prince Rupert Gas Terminal pipeline (PRGT) on their laxyip (homelands). Their efforts reflect a ...

Thousands of hectares of Canadian forest are sprayed every year with glyphosate, a weed-killing agent, for the sole purpose of killing off grasses, shrubs, and deciduous trees. Yes, really. It sounds ...

Seed is the foundation of our food system. Who controls seed, how new plant varieties are developed, who benefits from seed, and how decisions are made about seed all have big consequences. Canada’s ...

Last week, environmental organization Earthroots came out with evidence of mercury contamination upstream from the Grassy Narrows First Nation. Soil samples that showed hundreds of times the mercury ...

After decades of protests, environmental violations, government fines, and civil claims, it’s the end of an era. Crofton’s embattled pulp mill is shutting down after 68 years, leaving 350 workers ...

Danielle Smith has long claimed that federal government policies under ten years of Liberal rule have damaged Alberta’s oil and gas industry by reducing investment, limiting market access, and ...

One day in April of 1990 I was listening to the CBC radio science program, Quirks and Quarks. It was a special Earth Day program and they were interviewing Thomas Berry, a cultural historian, a monk ...

Thirty-four years ago, the “Friends of Strathcona” staged their 1988-1989 protest against the expansion of the Cream Silver Mine in Strathcona Park. The mine would have obliterated Cream Lake and most ...

With the help of the University of Victoria, Grandson of Ma’amtagila Hereditary Chief Basil Ambers, Xa’nalas Dakota Smith, has been working alongside a team of Ma’amtagila descendants to rebuild a ...

The City of Vancouver is cutting down thousands of trees in Vancouver’s iconic Stanley Park, ostensibly because of public safety reasons. Grassroots activists like Stanley Park Preservation Society ...