In 2016, a team of researchers led by Dr. Karen Bakker began producing a series of reports on the Site C Project. These reports assessed a series of issues: First Nations issues; environmental impacts; regulatory process; greenhouse gas emissions; and economics. Dr.
Project touted as safe and responsible, but Indigenous environmental activists not convinced
Raymond Ladouceur remembers what happened to Lake Athabasca when an oil pipeline leaked nearly 30 years ago.
Oil seeped into the water, creating slicks that forced fish to dive deep underwater and eat mud, something he'd never seen before.
"The stuff was yellow, and you talk about the stink," Ladouceur said from his home in Fort Chipewyan, Alta. "I can't describe it. It's a rotten smell, very hard on the nose."
The winds of resistance from Standing Rock blew into Washington D.C. last week, as indigenous leaders brought their demands directly to the door of the Trump administration.
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Published Friday, March 10, 2017 3:20PM PST
Last Updated Friday, March 10, 2017 5:39PM PST
The Canadian Coast Guard responded to an oil spill off the north coast of Vancouver Island, the second spill in the area in a week.
The Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada says a crew was dispatched Friday afternoon to an area near the Port Harvey Marina, south of Port McNeill.
Members will deploy sorbent pads if necessary as an initial response measure, B.C.'s Ministry of Environment said.
A coalition of First Nations, environmentalists, doctors and other community leaders are calling on the British Columbia government to launch a judicial inquiry into mining, given flaws they have cited in oversight of the industry.
“It’s in the public interest to do it. We have had repeated instances where it has been shown that the regulatory system has failed,” said Calvin Sandborn, legal director of the University of Victoria Environmental Law Centre, which has helped rally the coalition.
