Fisheries

11/12/25
Author: 
Andrew MacLeod
The MOU between Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Prime Minister Mark Carney includes support for a northern pipeline and a Trans Mountain expansion. Photo via Shutterstock.

Dec.11, 2025

BC hoped expanding Trans Mountain would be an alternative to a new pipeline. Instead both are possible.

With public attention focused on a proposed bitumen pipeline to British Columbia’s northwest coast, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith let drop that Premier David Eby had told her he agreed to a different proposal to expand oil shipments through B.C.

09/12/25
Author: 
Tara Lohan, originally published by Resilience.org
Elwha dam

This excerpt is adapted from Tara Lohan’s Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life (2025, Island Press). It is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (

07/12/25
Author: 
Inside Climate News
The cranes of a new megaport tower behind the town of Chancay, Peru. Credit: Cris Bouroncle/AFP via Getty Images

Dec. 1, 2025

A Massive, Chinese-Backed Port in Peru Could Push the Amazon Rainforest Over the Edge

The ultra-sophisticated port north of Lima will revolutionize global trade, but it’s already sparking destructive new routes through the world’s most climate-critical ecosystem.

 Eleventh in a series about how Beijing’s trillion-dollar development plan is reshaping the globe—and the natural world.

CHANCAY, Peru—The elevator doors leading to the fifth-floor control center open like stage curtains onto a theater-sized screen.

15/11/25
Author: 
Judith Lavoie
Increased herring catches proposed for 2026 could wipe out stocks of the critical food source for salmon, halibut, whales and seabirds, say environmental groups. Photo via Pacific Wild.

Nov. 14, 2025

The DFO proposes to expand the fishery. Environmental groups and the W̱SÁNEĆ fear disaster.

A small, oily fish at the heart of B.C.’s coastal food web will likely disappear without an immediate moratorium on commercial herring fishing, say Saanich First Nations Hereditary Chiefs and conservation groups.

17/09/25
Author: 
Shannon Waters and Matt Simmons
B.C. has approved the Ksi Lisims LNG liquefied natural gas export project, which will be built near the Nisga'a village of Gingolx. Photo: Marty Clemens / The Narwhal

Sept. 15, 2025 (Updated Sept. 16, 2025)

 

B.C. environment and energy ministers just gave the green light to Ksi Lisims, a project capable of producing almost as much as LNG Canada’s first phase. Concerns remain about the environmental impacts of the project

The B.C. government has just approved the Ksi Lisims liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility, which will produce up to 12 million tonnes of LNG annually by 2028. 

08/07/25
Author: 
Kristen de Jager
An environmental group is asking Ottawa to continue to support an international moratorium on commercial seabed mining in areas beyond national jurisdiction. Illustration via WWF.

July 7, 2025

Protesters rallied against a Canadian company that aims to lead in deep-sea minerals extraction.

02/05/25
Author: 
inslie Cruickshank
Most of B.C.’s boreal caribou live in Treaty 8 territory. Decades of oil and gas development have carved up the forests they call home, leaving them vulnerable to predators. Photo: Ryan Dickie / The Narwhal

Apr. 30, 2025

B.C. allows industrial logging in critical habitat for at-risk species — part of the reason why it’s not meeting federal standards

More than 80 per cent of the critical habitat for at-risk species in B.C. fails to meet federal protection standards, according to a government briefing document.

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