INDUSTRY | Opinion: Atlantic Power – Burning questions about railway ties
By Sage Birchwater – Controversy is brewing over Atlantic Power Corporation’s bid to increase the volume of creosote-laden railway ties it is allowed to burn in its biomass-fired energy plant in...
View ArticleINDUSTRY | Opinion: A Follow Up to Rail Tie Burning Concerns in Williams Lake
By Sage Birchwater – It’s been a year now since Atlantic Power Corporation (APC) unveiled its plan to ask the Ministry of Environment for permission to burn millions of railway ties as feedstock...
View ArticleIndustry | Citizens unite against rail tie burning pollution in Williams Lake
Submitted by citizens’ group, Rail Ties Be Wise – Anyone who lived in Williams Lake before 1993 can remember finding their car covered in fly ash from the beehive burners that used to dispose of wood...
View ArticleOpinion: Burning creosote and PCP laden rail ties in Williams Lake is an all...
By Becky Bravi – Last year I made an appeal to the Environmental Appeal Board opposing the permit to allow Atlantic Power (AP) to burn up to 50 per cent creosote and PCP soaked rail ties in its fuel...
View ArticleFederal government’s purchase of Kinder Morgan pipeline a major misstep for...
Project puts Canada’s climate and biodiversity goals, long-term economic prosperity, and Indigenous reconciliation efforts at risk The federal government’s decision today to purchase Kinder Morgan’s...
View ArticleNational Forest Week: Contribute to innovation in the living laboratory of...
Natalie A. Swift – Amidst the thick smoke we experienced this summer, I heard a common sentiment being expressed by residents of this region: we need to do things differently. This desire for change is...
View ArticleTŝilhqot’in Nation announces Peaceful Gathering at Teẑtan Biny and Yanah...
The Tŝilhqot’in community of Xeni Gwet’in is assembling for a peaceful gathering and harvesting camp at Teẑtan Biny (Fish Lake) and Yanah Biny (Little Fish Lake), a place of profound cultural and...
View ArticleHerbicide Use in the BC Interior
By Jim Hilton – In a recent BC government press release, the spraying of forests to control deciduous plants that interfere with conifers was reduced from 16,000 hectares to 10,000. Most of the...
View ArticleOpinion: Williams Lake Final Destination for CN’s Garbage?
By Stephanie Bird, on behalf of Rail Ties Be Wise, Williams Lake – Who stands to gain if rail ties are burned at the biomass power generator in Williams Lake? Certainly, Canadian National Railway (CN)...
View ArticleTurbidity: An Intimate Portrait of Environmental Disaster
A Film by Robert E. Moberg – It was August 4, 2014 when the provincial news media called requesting footage of an “incident” at the Mt. Polley mine. I grabbed my camera gear and set out on the short...
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