British Columbia Government Ecocide & Genocide — March 2021

BC Environment & Climate Change

Plant closure sends more biosolids to Hartland Landfill – Goldstream News Gazette

Conservation officer fired for refusing to kill bear cubs sues to get his job back | CBC News

Backcountry rodeo: scientists and Indigenous guardians net caribou from the sky – The Narwhal

Add Your Voice – Clayoquot Action

Cermaq reapplies for permit to dump sea lice pesticide in Clayoquot Sound

B.C. fails to demand detailed oil spill plans from Trans Mountain

https://coastfunds.ca/stories/using-science-to-safeguard/

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10158731460475081&set=a.10150714462420081

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10158759347075081&set=a.10150714462420081

https://www.wildernesscommittee.org/news/government-canada-declines-emergency-caribou-protection-order

https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/03/19/Governments-Make-Taxpayers-Subsidize-Corporate-Cleanup-Oil-Wells/

https://georgiastrait.org/work/climate-action-centre/premier-horgan-climate-action/

https://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/opinion/columnists/towards-a-full-glass-of-water-1.24297565

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/teck-fined-60m-contaminating-bc-rivers-1.5965646

https://vancouversun.com/opinion/ben-parfitt-thirsting-for-information-reforms-to-industrial-water-use-badly-needed

https://thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-covid-19-pandemic-environmental-racism/

BC Energy, Mines Petroleum Resources

B.C. recorded $505-million liability for cleanup of contaminated sites – Goldstream News Gazette

Critics challenge report claiming B.C. mines don’t impact Alaska waters

U.S. EPA releases selenium limits for lake downstream of Teck coal mines

7 things to know about micro-LNG in northwest B.C. | The Narwhal

Tsilhqot’in National Government appeals Gibraltar Mines’ permit to discharge into Fraser River – Williams Lake Tribune

Letter: Site C an environmentally and fiscally an ‘unacceptable’ debt – Bowen Island Undercurrent

B.C.’s Site C dam: 10 things we know about the latest review | The Narwhal

New map details potential environmental threats from B.C. mines – Goldstream News Gazette

Tŝilhqot’in Launch Challenge to Gibraltar Mine’s Effluent Dumping in Fraser River | The Tyee

Governments Are Making Taxpayers Subsidize Corporate Cleanup of Oil and Gas Wells | The Tyee

When COVID-19 and environmental racism collide in Canada | The Narwhal

Vaughn Palmer: B.C. Hydro’s 500-page Site C report avoids key questions | Vancouver Sun

From pipeline to pipe dream: why there’s no such thing as shipping carbon-neutral LNG – Splash247

Tahltan nation says it wants gold, copper, silver mines out of the territory

Towards a full glass of water | Prince George Citizen

(1) Not OK Strip Mine – Posts | Facebook

Island teen’s petition to stop Coastal GasLink pipeline garners over 23,000 signatures – Vancouver Island Free Daily

Hydrogen production is a ‘climate killer’ says Enel boss – Power Engineering International

Obeisance to privilege – In-Sights

West Moberly First Nations seek access to crucial information about Site C safety and cost | rabble.ca

BC has a secret. First Nations demand they reveal it – RAVEN Trust

A future without BC Hydro? Time to have the conversation, British Columbia – Thoughtful Journalism About Energy’s Future

Site C: Big Muddy Just Keeps Growing | Watershed Sentinel

Mining sector will have to adapt as B.C. looks to implement UN declaration on Indigenous rights – The Globe and Mail

Ben Parfitt: Thirsting for information: Reforms to industrial water use badly needed | Vancouver Sun

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2021/03/01/Pharaoh-Horgan-16-Billion-Monument-Folly/

https://www.e-know.ca/regions/east-kootenay/say-good-bye-to-another-river-killed-by-industry-and-politics/#disqus_thread

https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/03/03/Other-Time-NDP-Failed-To-Stop-Over-Budget-Megaproject/

https://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/op-ed/comment-horgan-s-runaway-costs-on-site-c-enough-is-enough-1.24290022

https://thenarwhal.ca/site-c-dam-2021-review-community-concerns/

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-reports-on-hydro-fiascos-in-manitoba-and-bc-expose-the-rot-at-crown/

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10158731460475081&set=a.10150714462420081

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=4062673613785526&set=a.106418736077720

https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-tsaa-nuna-conservancy-halfway-river-first-nation/

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10158759347075081&set=a.10150714462420081

https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/03/22/BC-Two-Pipeline-Fights-Spring-Forward/

https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/tahltan-government-says-it-wants-gold-copper-and-silver-mines-out-of-the-territory/

https://leaderpost.com/opinion/columnists/vaughn-palmer-b-c-hydro-knew-of-site-c-woes-two-years-before-the-public-was-told

https://thenarwhal.ca/tahltan-nation-evicts-doubleview-gold-corp/

https://www.facebook.com/stopthespraybc/photos/a.509720329363516/1472428889759317/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/teck-fined-60m-contaminating-bc-rivers-1.5965646

https://thenarwhal.ca/trans-mountain-pipeline-bc-permits/

https://thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-covid-19-pandemic-environmental-racism/

BC Forests, Lands & Natural Resources

Blockade of old-growth B.C. forest heading to B.C. Supreme Court | Globalnews.ca

Alleged logging at ancient First Nation burial site in B.C. prompts province to investigate | CBC News

Activists hunker down to protect Fairy Creek near Port Renfrew from logging – Goldstream News Gazette

How do you feel about the indiscriminate killing of wolves? – Reporting – Focus on Victoria

(1) Commons BC – Posts | Facebook

Old-growth logging protesters take to Victoria courthouse amid blockade injunction hearing

Photos Raise Alarm Over Old-Growth Logging in British Columbia

Sustainable Environment Network Society seeks halt to old-growth logging in the Okanagan – Vernon News – Castanet.net

Peachland marching against clearcut logging in watershed – Vernon Morning Star

B.C. is failing on old-growth forests, environmental report card says | CTV News

Stop Forests From Being Stripped of their Biodiversity – ForceChange

BC NDP’s misleading policy regarding the protection of old-growth forests | The Peak

Nothing but delays: Old-growth logging continues as B.C.’s commitments to change slip – The Globe and Mail

(1) Environmental group issues report card on B.C. NDP government’s old-growth forest promises | Watch News Videos Online

Critics cut into B.C. government’s protection plan for old-growth forests | National Observer

BC needs to change its sad history of wolf management – Informed Comment – Focus on Victoria

6 months after old growth report, Island’s Green MLAs rap NDP for lack of action – Vancouver Island Free Daily

In B.C., communities march to protect old-growth forests | CTV News

B.C. residents rally to protect old-growth forests – Peace Arch News

Lessons from cod collapse – Letters – Castanet.net

B.C. government faces rising criticism for failing to protect old growth forests from logging

The Institutional Bias of Forestry School Research – CounterPunch.org

UBCO researcher recommends systematic approach to forest and water supply management | EurekAlert! Science News

When will the NDP start protecting old growth? | Columbia Valley, Cranbrook, East Kootenay, Elk Valley, Kimberley

Protesters in View Royal stumped by MLA – Goldstream News Gazette

Opinion: British Columbians deserve more than continued delays and deflection on old growth

The Blockaders | The Tyee

What really killed Takaya? – Informed Comment – Focus on Victoria

Inside the complicated fight for B.C.’s last ancient forests on Vancouver Island

Local wolf pack wiped out by hunter – Reporting – Focus on Victoria

Sign the petition demanding a moratorium on logging BC’s remaining ancient trees | Leadnow.ca

Biogeography of Quaking Aspen

Protesters at B.C. legislature call on government to stop old-growth logging | CTV News

Hundreds gather to protest old-growth logging, forestry industry worries about loss of jobs

PHOTOS: Hundreds rally at B.C. legislature to protest logging of old-growth forests – Goldstream News Gazette

Protest highlights need for old-growth forest protection | Prince George Citizen

We can protect old-growth forests and forestry jobs at same time | Vancouver Sun

Humans have coexisted with wildfires for millennia, climate change and industrial logging are making things worse – Sierra Club BC

Nanaimo city council votes to oppose logging of at-risk old-growth forests – Nanaimo News Bulletin

Nanaimo urges B.C. to defer logging in old growth forests | Times Colonist

https://www.wildernesscommittee.org/news/government-canada-declines-emergency-caribou-protection-order

https://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/opinion/columnists/towards-a-full-glass-of-water-1.24297565

https://coastfunds.ca/stories/taan-forest-protecting-haida-values-through-sustainable-forestry/

https://www.facebook.com/stopthespraybc/photos/a.509720329363516/1472428889759317/

https://vancouversun.com/opinion/ben-parfitt-thirsting-for-information-reforms-to-industrial-water-use-badly-needed

https://thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-covid-19-pandemic-environmental-racism/

BC Ministry of Health

Wet’suwet’en Access Point on Gidimt’en Territory – Posts | Facebook

Island Health promises action after criticism of Victoria hospital’s psychiatric unit – Goldstream News Gazette

MLA REPORT: The brain is part of the body – let’s include it in our health-care system – Goldstream News Gazette

https://thenarwhal.ca/covid-19-environmental-racism-canada/

https://www.cheknews.ca/humiliating-and-dehumanizing-an-indigenous-womans-experience-at-the-royal-jubilee-hospital-755876/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/safespace-app-report-racism-indigenous-1.5961483

BC Indigenous Relations

Indigenous consent must come first and last for B.C. industrial projects – Goldstream News Gazette

A year after rail blockades, the people’s fire in Kahnawake still burns | CBC News

First northeast B.C. conservancy protects Halfway River First Nation territory

B.C. Supreme Court set to hear historic Indigenous land title case next year – Goldstream News Gazette

British Columbians in for a big adjustment with Aboriginal title settlement, lawyer says – Campbell River Mirror

Tahltan Nation evicts Doubleview Gold from territory

A nation dispersed: The Tlowitsis lay foundations to rebuild community | National Observer

An Indigenous woman’s ‘humiliating’ experience at Royal Jubilee Hospital

Taan Forest: Protecting Haida Values through Sustainable Forestry | Coast Funds

New online tool allows Indigenous patients to anonymously report racism in health-care system | CBC News

A toxic overlap of COVID-19 and environmental racism | The Narwhal

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/sechelt-first-nation-ancient-burial-site-logged-1.5932925

https://coastfunds.ca/stories/using-science-to-safeguard/

https://thenarwhal.ca/backcountry-rodeo-scientists-and-indigenous-guardians-net-caribou-from-the-sky/

https://pressprogress.ca/doug-ford-under-fire-over-reckless-personal-attack-on-indigenous-relations-critic/

https://thenarwhal.ca/covid-19-environmental-racism-canada/

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10102865569757935&set=a.10100535556977225

https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/03/22/BC-Two-Pipeline-Fights-Spring-Forward/

https://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/views-expressed/2021/03/west-moberly-first-nations-seek-access-crucial-information

https://raventrust.com/bc-has-a-secret-first-nations-demand-they-reveal-it/

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-bc-mining-laws-raise-questions-as-province-looks-to-implement-un/

BC Agriculture, Food and Fisheries

VIDEO: Blood flowed into Chilliwack ditch from poultry plant spill – Chilliwack Progress

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/teck-fined-60m-contaminating-bc-rivers-1.5965646

https://vancouversun.com/opinion/ben-parfitt-thirsting-for-information-reforms-to-industrial-water-use-badly-needed

British Columbia & Premier

Pharaoh Horgan and His $16-Billion Monument to Folly | The Tyee

Why Do Pandemic Injunctions Target Protests but Not Churches? | The Tyee

Say good-bye to another river killed by industry and politics | Columbia Valley, Cranbrook, East Kootenay, Elk Valley, Kimberley

Palmer: Election call came just after meeting that detailed Site C problems | Vancouver Sun

That Other Time the NDP Failed to Stop an Over-Budget Megaproject | The Tyee

Peace Valley Landowner Association reacts to Site C decision | Energeticcity.ca – Local news from Northeast B.C.

Comment: Horgan’s runaway costs on Site C: Enough is enough | Times Colonist

‘Who would feel safe?’ Site C dam concerns build along Peace River

Dear John | Facebook

NDP Criticized for Delayed Rollout of Promised COVID Benefit | The Tyee

The Faces, and Realities, of Those Living on Disability Assistance | The Tyee

Premier Horgan: It’s time to choose climate action • Georgia Strait AllianceGeorgia Strait Alliance

Vaughn Palmer: B.C. Hydro knew of Site C woes two years before the public was told | Regina Leader Post

BC’s Disability Survival Trap | The Tyee

BC’s Income Assistance Rate Hike Still Leaves Kids in Poverty | The Tyee

Horgan’s COVID comments towards young people unhelpful, unfair: B.C. professor – Goldstream News Gazette

https://www.goldstreamgazette.com/news/activists-hunker-down-to-protect-fairy-creek-near-port-renfrew/

https://www.cheknews.ca/old-growth-logging-protesters-take-to-victoria-courthouse-amid-blockade-injunction-hearing-749873/

https://www.goldstreamgazette.com/news/b-c-recorded-505-million-liability-for-cleanup-of-contaminated-sites/

https://www.treehugger.com/photos-raise-alarm-old-growth-logging-british-columbia-5115170

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-reports-on-hydro-fiascos-in-manitoba-and-bc-expose-the-rot-at-crown/

https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-alaska-transboundary-watershed-mines-report/

https://www.facebook.com/wetsuwetenstrong/posts/797187201227068

https://www.castanet.net/news/Vernon/326655/Sustainable-Environment-Network-Society-seeks-halt-to-old-growth-logging-in-the-Okanagan

https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-teck-coal-mines-epa-selenium-limits/

https://www.bowenislandundercurrent.com/opinion/letter-site-c-an-environmentally-and-fiscally-an-unacceptable-debt-3525081

https://www.vernonmorningstar.com/news/peachland-marching-against-clearcut-logging-in-watershed/

https://thenarwhal.ca/site-c-dam-milburn-report-explainer/

https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/b-c-is-failing-on-old-growth-forests-environmental-report-card-says-1.5343299

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-nothing-but-delays-old-growth-logging-continues-as-bcs-commitments-to/

https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/03/15/Tsilhqotin-Launch-Challenge-Gibraltar-Mine/

https://www.straight.com/news/cree-metis-lawyer-myrna-mccallum-makes-her-mark-holding-cops-accountable-and-elevating

https://www.wildernesscommittee.org/news/government-canada-declines-emergency-caribou-protection-order

https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/03/19/Governments-Make-Taxpayers-Subsidize-Corporate-Cleanup-Oil-Wells/

https://thenarwhal.ca/covid-19-environmental-racism-canada/

https://vancouversun.com/opinion/vaughn-palmer-b-c-hydros-500-page-site-c-report-avoids-key-questions/wcm/0f06e289-1909-4101-b08b-0621d6117770/amp/

https://splash247.com/from-pipeline-to-pipe-dream-why-theres-no-such-thing-as-shipping-carbon-neutral-lng/

https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/03/22/BC-Two-Pipeline-Fights-Spring-Forward/

https://www.e-know.ca/regions/east-kootenay/when-will-the-ndp-start-protecting-old-growth/

https://thenarwhal.ca/cermaq-sea-lice-pesticide-clayoquot-sound/

https://www.facebook.com/HIGHLANDS.NotOK/posts/2986270784936115

https://www.vancouverislandfreedaily.com/news/island-teens-petition-to-stop-coastal-gaslink-pipeline-garners-over-23000-signatures/

https://www.powerengineeringint.com/hydrogen/hydrogen-production-is-a-climate-killer-says-enel-boss/

https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/03/25/Fairy-Creek-Blockaders/

https://energi.media/deep-dives/a-future-without-bc-hydro-time-to-have-the-conversation-british-columbia/

https://watershedsentinel.ca/articles/site-c-the-big-muddy-keeps-growing/

https://sierraclub.bc.ca/humans-have-coexisted-with-wildfires-for-millennia-climate-change-and-industrial-logging-are-making-things-worse-fb/

https://vancouversun.com/opinion/ben-parfitt-thirsting-for-information-reforms-to-industrial-water-use-badly-needed

https://thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-covid-19-pandemic-environmental-racism/