Leaders at Grassy Narrows First Nation want all logging near their community stopped for fear it is adding to the mercury contamination already poisoning people in the northwestern Ontario community. “It’s the same government and the same ministry that allowed the mercury to be dumped,” said Grassy Narrows Deputy Chief Randy Fobister of the provincial…
A federal infrastructure funding announcement on May 15 included $5.6 million to upgrade the Pacific Forestry Centre in Victoria, a research facility that supports Canada’s forest sector by advancing forest management policy and conducting important research in fields including forest pests, genomics and bioenergy. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Pacific Forestry Centre….
Resource development in B.C. isn’t stalled, as many appear to fear, but rather is proceeding at a historic pace, according to a new report from Resource Works, a business funded, Vancouver-based think-tank that focuses on economic and environmental issues. And, far from impeding development, First Nations are playing increasingly important roles in moving it forward,…
A British company buying up thousands of hectares of cleared farmland in B.C.’s Interior for carbon offset projects will have to get its plans past B.C.’s Agricultural Land Commission first, Agriculture Minister Norm Letnick says. The B.C. government has compiled a list of farm properties totalling 7,000 hectares from Prince George to Quesnel that have…
Two American pulp and paper mill owners are charging ahead in their quest to have tariffs placed on supercalendered paper entering the U.S. from Port Hawkesbury Paper Corp. In a preliminary injury inquiry on Friday, American trade commission voted to refer the case to the department of commerce for further investigation. Lead by American supercalendered…
A private member’s bill brought forward by Whitecourt-Ste. Anne MLA George Vanderburg has passed in the Alberta Legislature. Bill 203 amends the safety codes act to allow wood-constructed buildings to be built to a maximum of six storeys across the province. The bill now lines up with changes made by the City of Calgary last…
Members of Grassy Narrows First Nation will be in Kenora, Ont., today to take part in a protest rally being held to show the First Nations continuing opposition to logging in the Whiskey Jack Forest. Grassy Narrows spokesperson Randy Fobister said the protest will be will be a peaceful one. “It’s pretty much a rally,” he said….
A British Columbia First Nation is one step closer to exerting control over its territory in the wake of a historic Supreme Court of Canada decision last year with the announcement of several agreements with the provincial government. The Tsilhqot’in Nation became the first in Canada to win title to its land, located west of…
When he was a boy, Marvin Yahey lived mostly off the land, hunting and trapping year-round with his family in the game-rich forests in northeastern British Columbia. But an explosion of resource development over the past three decades has so fractured the landscape that that kind of life isn’t possible any more, he says, except…