Site C dam builder fined $1.1 million for discharging contaminated wastewater
In the river home to at-risk species, more than three million litres of wastewater contained...
Stories by Sarah Cox
B.C. to feds: don’t issue emergency order to save the endangered spotted owl
An internal government document reveals how B.C., citing ‘significant impacts’ on forest sector jobs and...
‘Are you kidding me?’: B.C. sanctions shooting, logging in endangered spotted owl habitat
Only one spotted owl remains in Canada’s wild. The B.C. government says it is committed...
In B.C.’s bone-dry northeast, what happens when wildfires and fracking collide?
The Donnie Creek wildfire, the largest ever recorded in the province’s history, is burning in...
‘Deeply troubling’: BC Hydro secretly handed out $430 million in Site C dam contracts
Beleaguered engineering firm SNC-Lavalin was among the big winners of no-bid contracts for the over-budget...
Coastal GasLink, LNG Canada get $24-million break despite B.C.’s plans to shift away from subsidies
As regulatory bodies distance themselves from the words 'oil and gas,' one of the first...
‘It is so beautiful’: rare inland rainforest in B.C. declared Indigenous protected area
In a race to conserve the largest intact, unprotected watershed in southern B.C., the Simpcw...
Canada’s Trans Mountain pipeline destroys spotted owl habitat feds have vowed to protect
Even as federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault recommends an emergency order to protect the spotted...
Old-growth spotted owl habitat removed from federal maps after talks with B.C., docs reveal
Federal scientists mapped core critical habitat for the endangered spotted owl. Almost half of it,...
