Topic: fracking
Wednesday Apr 17, 2013 My name is Owen McGregor and I'm 19 years old. I’m finishing up my first year of school at Ontario’s Guelph University in Environmental Science. Before volunteering with ForestEthics, I was going into nursing. Needless to say my experience with ForestEthics changed many things for me.... read more »
Wednesday Apr 3, 2013 In 1879, John Muir traveled into far northern British Columbia to the Stikine River. He was in search of solitude and wilderness and he found both in shocking quantities. You would imagine that Muir, having spent so much time in some of the wildest country in the world, would be relatively hard to impress. But what he saw in the Stikine stunned him - a place of such natural wealth and breathtaking beauty that he described as a Yosemite Valley a hundred miles long.... read more »
Friday Mar 22, 2013 Karen Tam Wu, now director of programs with ForestEthics Advocacy, was our lead campaigner to stop Shell’s plans to frack for coalbed methane gas in British Columbia’s Sacred Headwaters. In December 2012 the government of British Columbia banned Shell’s project and all future oil and gas development in the region. Interviewed by Claire Rosenfeld below, Karen gives us a glimpse into the campaign. ... read more »
Thursday Mar 7, 2013 Creative, collaborative, compassionate, and community-supported is how we define our work on the Sacred Headwaters campaign at ForestEthics. It is a great honor for our organizations to be named along with nine other incredible projects this year as Tides’ top innovators for our work in northwestern British Columbia’s Sacred Headwaters.... read more »
Wednesday Feb 20, 2013 In last week’s Throne Speech, the BC government proposed to create a Prosperity Fund, to help pay down the provincial debt, eliminate the provincial sales tax, and pay for services such as health care and schools.... read more »
Tuesday Dec 18, 2012 Today's announcement that Shell is withdrawing from the Sacred Headwaters and that the area will be permanently protected from gas drilling is cause for celebration for communities in the northwest of British Columbia! People all over the world who joined in to say “No” to dirty energy and fractured landscapes and “Yes” to for wild places, clean water, wild salmon and environmentally responsible jobs should share their excitement.... read more »
Tuesday Dec 11, 2012 There’s just one week left until the moratorium on Shell’s plans to frack for coalbed methane in British Columbia’s Sacred Headwaters expires on December 18. What will Shell decide? Will the company ignore the voices of First Nations, local communities, and tens of thousands of people around the world who have said ‘no’ to fracking at the source of three major wild salmon rivers?... read more »
Monday Nov 19, 2012 Last week, we saw what happens when a province chooses prudence over profits when it comes to resource development. An American-incorporated company with headquarters in Calgary is suing the Government of Canada under NAFTA. Quebec became the first province in Canada to ban fracking last year.... read more »
Thursday Sep 27, 2012 On Monday, September 24, ForestEthics Advocacy hosted a community dialogue session in Victoria, British Columbia to discuss plans to expand natural gas development in British Columbia. The event brought together community members who live on the front lines of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas—including a university professor in environmental studies, a First Nations member from Skidegate, Gwaii Hanaas and a policy analyst.... read more »
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