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Paddle to the Premier: Say No to The Site C Dam!
Posted by joan.Russow on http://PEJ.org on Thursday, September 09, 2010 - 08:40 AM.
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Paddle to the Premier: Say No to The Site C Dam! First Nations, Concerned Community Members to Rally Against Site “C” Dam Fort St. John , BC - On Sunday, September 19, First Nations and concerned community members from the Peace River Valley will canoe to the Legislature in Victoria to deliver a message to the Premier to stop the Site “C” Dam. The rally is being organized by four Treaty 8 First Nations – the Doig River, Halfway River, Prophet River and West Moberly First Nations – all of whose Treaty rights will be harmed by the project, as well as, the Wilderness Committee, the Peace Valley Environment Association, and the Sierra Club of BC.
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Treaty Negotiations
Posted by Dragonslayer on http://PEJ.org on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 02:15 PM.
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Treaty Negotiations
Aboriginal Neighbours hosted a meeting April 12 in Victoria at St. John the Divine. Robert Morales, Treaty Negotiator for the Hul'qumi'num Treaty Group gave the historical background of the development of private lands and the E&N railway on the southeastern end of Vancouver Island. Private lands are now subject to vast timber and real estate interests, and are not included in the BC Treaty negotiations. Therefore, the case has been submitted to the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights..
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Get Fish Farms Out Of BC
Posted by Dragonslayer on http://PEJ.org on Monday, April 05, 2010 - 01:23 PM.
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Get Out For Wild Salmon!
Press Release, Get Out For Wild Salmon! - from www.SalmonAreSacred.org One Month Countdown Until 'The Get Out Migration' Emerges From The Rivers
Salmon Are Sacred is calling on everyone who loves wild salmon to participate in 'The Get Out Migration' which starts on Earth Day (22nd April) and ends with a Mother's Day blessing (9th May). In British Columbia, Alexandra Morton will start the migration in the Ahta River in the heart of the Broughton Archipelago with Quoashinis Lawson leaving the Bedwell River in Clayoquot Sound UNESCO Biosphere Reserve before joining up en route to Victoria. Other migrations are planned from Gold River, the Cowichan Valley, the Gulf Islands, the Fraser River Valley, Adams River and Washington State.
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Feds to review Raven coal mine
Posted by joan.Russow on http://PEJ.org on Sunday, April 04, 2010 - 05:11 PM.
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Feds to review Raven coal mine
- By Fred Davies - Parksville Qualicum Beach News  The Raven Underground Coal Project will undergo a federal environmental analysis, but at least one critic wonders whether the assessment will be undermined by Ottawa’s changed handling of environmental reviews. Referencing a recent Globe and Mail article, John Snyder, chairperson of the mine critic group CoalWatch, said the Harper government is “handing the environment ministry the power to minimize reviews of projects from open-pit mines to municipal construction along with other changes that will gut the environmental review process.
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Fish Lake Help Urgently Needed
Posted by joan.Russow on http://PEJ.org on Saturday, April 03, 2010 - 04:31 PM.
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Fish Lake Help Urgently Needed
-"Friends of the Nemaiah Valley"; (British Columbia)
As you know, the Federal Panel Hearings into Taseko Mine's application for their Prosperity Mine are now into the second week. If Taseko gets approval for this mine it will destroy Teztan Biny (Fish Lake), Nabas (Little Fish Lake) and Fish Creek. There will be significant cultural loss and social upheaval in the Nemiah Valley. Fraser River salmon runs may very well be imperiled.
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Rivers at Risk: Saving Bute Inlet from General Electric
Posted by joan.Russow on http://PEJ.org on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 03:17 PM.
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Rivers at Risk: Saving Bute Inlet from General Electric
- Western Canada Wilderness Committee Rivers are the life blood of our province. They provide drinking water for our communities, spawning habitat for wild salmon and other critters, and turf for adventurers and outdoor enthusiasts. BC's wild rivers are at risk from a gold rush of power producers. Over 600 waterways in BC have been staked by corporations looking to make big money on our wild rivers.
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Cuts to Medical Coverage and Minimum Shelter Allowance
Posted by joan.Russow on http://PEJ.org on Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 01:22 PM.
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Cuts to Medical Coverage and Minimum Shelter Allowance
- BC Health Coalition March 11th 2010
Dear Community Partners, Following the March 2nd budget, the Ministry of Housing and Social Development announced it will be making a number of cuts to the health and medical services available to people receiving provincial disability benefits and income assistance. The BC Coalition of People with Disabilities (BCCPD) is very concerned about the impact that these changes will have on our community.
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Climate Change Hypocrisy in BC’s Throne Speech
Posted by joan.Russow on http://PEJ.org on Monday, March 01, 2010 - 07:23 PM.
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Climate Change Hypocrisy in BC’s Throne Speech - Peace Valley Environment Association - February 10, 2010
Climate change hypocrisy is evident in the throne speech. The BC Government somehow plans to become a “clean energy powerhouse” by building power lines and damming rivers to increase oil and gas exploration and export natural gas to further the oil sands development.
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Invoke the Precautionary Principle and Ban the Use of Cosmetic Pesticides in British Columbia
Posted by joan.Russow on http://PEJ.org on Monday, February 15, 2010 - 11:43 AM.
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Invoke the Precautionary Principle and Ban the Use of Cosmetic Pesticides in British Columbia
PEJ news - Joan Russow (Ph.D.) Global Compliance Research Project
Support a province-wide ban on lawn and garden pesticides. For years the precautionary principle has been a fundamental principle of international law. This principle has been enunciated in different ways such as:
Where there is a threat to the environment and human health, the lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing measures to prevent the threat. There has been more than sufficient data on the health and environmental consequences of the use of pesticides to justify a complete ban on production, sale and use of not just cosmetic pesticides but of most pesticides.
Today is the deadline for submitting comments (see details in Annex below)
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Public not Private Procurement for Sewage treatment in the Capital Region District Victoria B.C.
Posted by joan.Russow on http://PEJ.org on Thursday, January 28, 2010 - 10:44 AM.
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Public not Private Procurement for Sewage treatment in the Capital Region District Victoria B.C.
Public or Private Procurement for Sewage treatment - Press Release From the Greater Victoria Water Watch Coalition The following has been sent to all the members of the Board of the CRD. We have to have a clear case made for the cotinuation of the guardianship of our sewage treatment and water supply in the Capital Region District by you as representatives locally elected to serve us as members of the municipal councils in the Greater Victoria area. As our elected members, you are the ones who will be given the responsibility tp decide on the procurement plan brought forward to the Core Liquid Waste Management Committee by Ernst and Young Orenda who have been hired to develop this plan .
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Enbridge Oil spills
Posted by joan.Russow on http://PEJ.org on Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 09:17 AM.
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Enbridge Oil spills PEJnews - In May 24, 2008, Lee Bergquist, from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, reported that a Canadian company, Enbridge, is responsible for more than 100 environmental violations related to the construction of a 321 –mile pipeline spanning much of Wisconsin. (http://www.sqwalk.com/blog2008/001279.html) The Kitimat Daily Online News, reports, in "Enbridge Oil Spill Confirms Concerns about BC Pipeline" about recent Enbridge oils spills
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COP 15 -Tck Tck Tck hoodwinked NGOs
Posted by joan.Russow on http://PEJ.org on Wednesday, January 06, 2010 - 10:03 AM.
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COP 15 -Tck Tck Tck hoodwinked NGOsPEJ News - Joan Russow - www.Climatechangecopenhagen.org Global climate change Copenhaagen petition http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws9d6Wp_I7w- COP 15 -Tck Tck Tck hoodwinked NGOs: bold demands sacrificed for PR coverage Did the many NGO groups that signed on to Tck Tck Tck Campaign know what they were agreeing to? Were they aware of the corporate links to the Campaign? Do they know who owns the Trade Mark Tck Tck Tck that they have been so dutifully promoting? Or do the NGOs care? www.PEJ.org
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Hertzog News Update
Posted by Dragonslayer on http://PEJ.org on Friday, December 04, 2009 - 05:46 PM.
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Hertzog News Update
PEJ News - News and Opinion - Remember Stuart Hertzog and his accusations about how unfair he was treated by the Green Party of which he was a member? Well it seems that Stuart was so unhappy with Elizabeth May running in his riding that he filed a complaint with Elections Canada. As it turns out Elections Canada informed him that it found insufficient grounds to even warrant pursuing an investigation. So now the road is clear for Elizabeth to sink Gary Lund in the next election. Perhaps Stuart could get a job reforming the Conservative Party. He certainly has laid the groundwork to get the job. www.PEJ.org
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