Ben ParfittEcojustice, Sierra Club BC in court over environmental assessment exemption for unlawfully-built dams
Ecojustice and Sierra Club BC are in court this week to challenge the British Columbia government’s decision to exempt two Petronas Canada dams from environmental assessments — after the company had already gone ahead and built the dams unlawfully.
Electrification of fracking and LNG will fuel climate change, not solve it
Sierra Club BC released the following statement from campaigns…
Conservation groups applaud federal commitment to support Indigenous land-use visions in Clayoquot Sound
Members of the Clayoquot Sound Conservation Alliance (CSCA) are congratulating the Ahousaht and Tla-o-qui-aht First Nations for securing a key federal commitment to advance their land-use visions in Clayoquot Sound, British Columbia, which will conserve the remaining ecologically-rare old growth forests in this iconic region.
Sierra Club BC statement on International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
On International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, we at Sierra Club BC recognize the ongoing jurisdiction of Indigenous peoples over their territories around the world and in particular here in this place now known as British Columbia.
Ben ParfittEcojustice, Sierra Club BC in court over environmental assessment exemption for unlawfully-built dams
Ecojustice and Sierra Club BC are in court this week to challenge the British Columbia government’s decision to exempt two Petronas Canada dams from environmental assessments — after the company had already gone ahead and built the dams unlawfully.
University of Victoria Environmental Law Centre report calls for a minimum of thirty per cent old-growth protection across B.C.
A new report prepared by the University of Victoria’s Environmental Law Centre (ELC) for Sierra Club BC calls for thirty per cent base level protection of old-growth ecosystems and intact forests across the province as part of the provincial government’s amendments to provincial forestry regulations.
