Tag Archives: Grand Chief Stewart Phillip

Environment

Mayor Derek Corrigan Speaks Against Kinder Morgan

The ECOreport reposts Mayor Derek Corrigan Speaks Against Kinder Morgan at a Rally to Protect Conservation Land on Burnaby Mountain

The City of Burnaby is trying to enforce a municipal bylaw to protect Conservation Land on Burnaby Mountain. The giant US oil company, Kinder Morgan, has begun clear cutting and drilling in preparation for boring through the Mountain to ship heavy tar sands crude oil from Alberta through Burnaby to China.

Continue reading Mayor Derek Corrigan Speaks Against Kinder Morgan →
Indigenous Nations, Politics

Supreme Court Recognizes Tsilhqot’in First Nation’s Title

3 Comments
Screen-shot-2014-03-18-at-3.43.47-PM1

The implications, for future economic activities on aboriginal lands, are enormous. The Supreme Court Recognizes Tsilhqot’in First Nation’s Title over 1,700 square kilometres of British Columbia.  

Continue reading Supreme Court Recognizes Tsilhqot’in First Nation’s Title →
Rivers & Oceans

Salmon Farms face Multiple Legal Threats

1 Comment

By Roy L Hales

Screen-shot-2014-03-18-at-3.43.47-PM1

Alexandra Morton’s long awaited suit against the Department of Fisheries and Oceans opened in Vancouver today. Morton’s lawyer, Margot Venton, filed the suit after learning that fish allegedly infected with the piscine reovirus (PRV) had been transferred into an open-pen fish farm operated by Marine Harvest along the Fraser River sockeye migration. BC salmon farms face Multiple Legal Threats .

Continue reading Salmon Farms face Multiple Legal Threats →