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          <title>‘You can’t drink money’: Kootenay communities fight logging to protect their drinking water</title>
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          <description>In Glade, where clear-cutting could begin any day, determined residents are pulling out all the stops in an effort to protect their local creek — even though a judge ruled they have no right to clean water</description>
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          <title>North Cowichan residents discover they own six mountains and a logging company</title>
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          <description>The municipality owns 5,000 hectares of coastal Douglas fir forest. Now the question is: to log or not to log?</description>
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