The Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition has paid for eye-catching billboards near Parliament Hill suggesting Prime Minister Justin Trudeaus image will be forever tainted if his government approves a project they say would be a climate disaster. Peter O'Neil / PNG

News Release 

For Immediate Release: 

April 7, 2016

Coast Salish Territory/Vancouver, BC – First Nations Summit (FNS) leaders call on BC Hydro to abandon recent arguments to ignore the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) made by their legal counsel in the Federal Court of Appeal in their response to an Amnesty International application for leave to intervene in a federal case opposing the Site-C Dam.

VICTORIA – The Wilderness Committee is celebrating an announcement by the BC Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) late yesterday afternoon, which terminated the assessment for the proposed Raven Coal Mine in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island.

Beijing has high hopes for the new Trudeau government.

Kristin Henry and her supporters wanted media attention for their protest against the controversial Site C dam project, and at Day 19 of her hunger strike, they got it.

But it came at a heavy cost: Ms. Henry was admitted to hospital because her heart rate had fallen dangerously low.

British Columbia Premier Christy Clark "will have blood on her hands" if she continues to move forward with the Site C Dam, said protester Kristin Henry on the 19th day of her hunger strike against the controversial hydroelectric project.

[Webpage editor's note: It has long been suspected that one motivation for the proposed 10 lane bridge to replace the currrent 4 lane Massey tunnel under the Fraser River in Metro Vancouver was to enable larger ships to sail up and down the river (the tunnel limits a deeper river channel). Steve Ree's blog provides some evidence regarding LNG carriers.]