Environment

SUZUKI – Plastic straws suck; get rid of them and help the environment

July 19, 2017 // 1 Comment

OF ALL THE plastic products we use and take for granted, plastic drinking straws are among the most unnecessary. Designed to be used once and discarded, their only real [Continue]

LETTER – Federal environment minister should visit Ajax site before decision

July 19, 2017 // 5 Comments

July 18, 2017 Dear Kamloops Deputy Mayor Arjun Singh: Thank you for your clear point form disclosure of your “against” opinion on the Ajax Mine Project. I am struck how [Continue]

SUZUKI – Nature offers the best defence against flooding

June 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

SPRING FLOODING in Canada this year upended lives, inundated city streets and swamped houses, prompting calls for sandbags, seawalls and dikes to save communities. Ontario [Continue]

LETTER – Experts express environmental concerns about Ajax

May 2, 2017 // 8 Comments

The B.C. Environment Assessment Organization has recently posted some new information from our government scientists regarding the KGHM Ajax proposal to put an open-pit mine [Continue]

MacFADYEN – New Zealand legislation gives river legal status as a ‘person’

April 15, 2017 // 1 Comment

A RIVER in New Zealand has been given legal personhood status and will have the same rights as a human being. It’s the first time in the world that a river has been legally [Continue]

ENVIRONMENT – What’s changed on the ground since the Mount Polley mine disaster?

April 15, 2017 // 0 Comments

Not enough, say critics, who call for a judicial inquiry into the state of mining regulation in BC. By CHRISTOPHER POLLON | TheTyee.ca Christopher Pollon is a Tyee [Continue]