Land Use/Forests

Canada’s First Nations Score Two Environmental Victories

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada, December 3, 2021 (ENS) – The British Columbia government and its logging agency BC Timber Sales, BCTS, have pulled three more cutblocks from their sales plan in Argonaut Creek in central British Columbia on the traditional territory of the Ktunaxa, Syilx, Secwépemc and Sinixt nations. […]

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Energy

Trump Auctions Off Arctic Refuge Land to Oil Companies

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, January 14, 2020 (ENS) – The Trump administration has begun to auction off roughly one-third of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil drilling. It is no coincidence that this lease sale was announced with only a few weeks left in the Trump presidency, as President Donald Trump is eager to kickstart Arctic oil drilling before leaving the White House on January 20. […]

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Land Use/Forests

Caribou, Old-growth Forest Losers in BC Logging Plans

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada, September 19, 2020 (ENS) – Days after the province of British Columbia announced a new provincial approach to old-growth forests, conservation groups are sounding the alarm on plans to log more than three square kilometres of intact rainforest north of Revelstoke, destroying critical habitat for the endangered southern mountain caribou. […]