Kootenay-based conservation charity Wildsight asked Canada this week to appoint an independent panel of experts to review the environmental impacts of a proposed mine expansion…
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Public review of coal mine expansion opens
Submitted by Wildsight The proposed expansion of Elk Valley Resources’ (EVR) Fording River coal mine formally entered British Columbia’s environmental assessment process public comment period…
IAAC rules more assessment required for mine expansion
Submitted by Wildsight The federal Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (IAAC) has ruled that the proposed expansion of the Fording River coal mine in the…
Revised Fording River mine expansion still poses risks
Submitted by Wildsight Bighorn sheep, grizzly bears and native fish populations would suffer if a proposal to expand British Columbia’s biggest coal mine by over…
Local mine named in harmful steel-supply chain report
Submitted by Wildsight The Elk Valley’s Line Creek Operations (coal mine) has been named in a new report exposing environmental impacts and human rights abuses…
Moral superiority at work
By Peter Christensen Op-Ed Commentary There is a moral superiority that accompanies environmentalism; it allows followers to condemn the activities of others without acknowledging that…
$6.4 billion needed for partial clean-up of water pollution
A new Wildsight-commissioned report has revealed it will cost at least $6.4 billion to reverse rising selenium concentrations in Canadian and United States waterways due…
B.C. must stop approving new coal mines: Wildsight
Submitted by Wildsight Recent progress on a proposed new coal mine in the Elk Valley highlights government inaction on the region’s growing water pollution crisis….