(Coast Salish Territory/Vancouver, B.C. – August 9, 2018) The Union of BC Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) is frustrated and outraged with the $1.9 billion increase in estimated construction costs for the planned Trans Mountain pipeline and tanker project released by Kinder Morgan yesterday.

Government’s subsidies, lax rules provide the resource that keeps the bitumen flowing.

In the past year, an energy dispute for the ages has played out in Canada, culminating in the federal government announcing that it will buy an aging oil pipeline for $4.5 billion and then twin it with a new high-capacity pipeline that would move massive amounts of diluted bitumen from Alberta to the British Columbia coast.

'We’re finding that these blooms happen sporadically year-round,' says environmental specialist

 

Researchers collecting shellfish samples from Point Louisa, Juneau. (Lindsey Pierce)

August 7, 2018

OPEN LETTER:    Upholding commitments to reconciliation and Indigenous rights in court regarding the Site C injunction hearings
 

Dear Premier Horgan and Minister Eby:
 

We are writing to shed light on the unacceptable and disconcerting gap between your political commitments to reconciliation and Indigenous rights, and BC Hydro’s legal arguments in the current

Hundreds of people have been relocated from region in northwest of province
CBC News  Aug 07, 2018

More than two dozen buildings have been destroyed by a growing wildfire near a remote community in northern B.C.

On Tuesday, Chief Rick McLean from the Tahltan Nation said 27 structures have been lost in Telegraph Creek.

Several large fires have forced evacuation orders around the community over the past several days.

'I'm standing here by myself saying he's not welcome here,' activist says

 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at a Liberal Party barbecue in Delta, B.C., on Sunday. (Darryl Dyck/Canadian Press)

Waters staying above 20 C for days, which causes high stress and 'pre-spawn mortality' in fish, DFO says

Submission to BC government and Climate Solutions and Clean Growth Advisory Council

Arrests come one day after two women sentenced to 7 days in jail for blockading construction