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Canada: Environmental groups demand BC government uphold its own water laws
Posted by Vancouver Observer: None Given on March 20th, 2014
Vancouver Observer: It’s Water Week in Canada, and events are happening across the country with the purpose of sparking discussion about how to protect this important resource. In BC, environmental justice organizations believe the government is having the wrong conversation.
The provincial government is in the process of making changes to the Water Act--including a proposal to change the name to the Water Sustainability Act--and earlier this week, Sierra Club BC and Western Canada Wilderness Committee took the provincial...
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Comments Off on Canada: Environmental groups demand BC government uphold its own water lawsTwo million comments opposing tar sands expansion delivered to the US State Department
Posted by Vancouver Observer: None Given on March 8th, 2014
Vancouver Observer: The original plan of environmentalist groups in the U.S. was to deliver one million comments opposing Keystone XL to the State Department this morning. But the response from people all over North America speaking out against the Keystone XL pipeline and the Canadian tar sands has been so enormous, a coalition of youth-driven environmental groups will now be delivering upwards of two million signatures to the doorstep of the White House this morning.
Dozens of organizations, including 350.org,...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Two million comments opposing tar sands expansion delivered to the US State DepartmentKalamazoo Activist Could Face Federal Charges for Enbridge Pipeline Protest
Posted by Vancouver Observer: None Given on December 13th, 2013
Vancouver Observer: After Chris Wahmhoff broke up with his first girlfriend, he went down to the Kalamazoo River to think. When his grandfather died, he went looking for comfort in the same place. He has spent the better part of his life living within a few hundred feet of the river, but when he went down to the water last June, it was for a different reason.
On June 24--his 35th birthday--Wahmhoff climbed into a section of Enbridge’s Line 6B pipeline. When he got out 10 hours later, he was arrested and charged with...
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