aggregated from: Public Eye Online

Nine months ago, the Campbell administration announced it was important for urban British Columbians to understand how the agriculture industry contributes to the province's social, economic and environmental well-being. The reason: a strong agric...

topics: agriculture, campbell-administration, environmental

aggregated from: DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds

gavel.jpg The US Chamber of Commerce filed papers this week in Federal Court seeking to put climate science on trial” - based on many of the same arguments that have been making the rounds for ...

topics: agriculture, climate-change, cope, environment, global-warming

aggregated from: DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds

Richard Tol.jpg The most successful Libertarian politician in Canadian history, Globe and Mail columnist Neil Reynolds, has joined the campaign to do nothing about climate change, basing his argument...

topics: agriculture, climate-change, environment, environmental, forestry

aggregated from: Langley Politics Dotcom

South Langley is one of the great, unique features of the Township. Breathtakingly beautiful, it also serves the ever-important purpose of agriculture. High Point, located at the foot of 200th Street, is a high-end community built around extending th...

topics: abbotsford, agriculture, langley, ndp, politics

aggregated from: Langley Politics Dotcom

Notes from Langley Township Council's special meeting, Monday afternoon, July 20, 2009. Coun. Ferguson was away.After lengthy delegations from developers Dan Paris and Gary Pooni (almost an hour), Council voted to divide a staff recommendation regar...

topics: agriculture, councillor, environment, langley, mayor

aggregated from: DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds

Bob Stallman, head of the American Farm Bureau Federation, has declared that the earth is cooling in testimony Tuesday before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. So it must be true.Using the Frank Luntz approved language of sound scie...

topics: agriculture, climate-change, emissions, environment, global-warming

aggregated from: North Vancouver Politics.com

Coming to a neighbourhood near you very soon. On Monday night District Council will be voting on a recommendation to invest a miniumum of $15,000 in a community garden for residents in a pre-defined portion of Lillooet Park . In addition the s...

topics: agriculture, north-vancouver

aggregated from: Stephen Rees's blog

Globe and MailThis story appears in the paper s real estate section and shows how the region s land use strategy is being ripped apart by the port. The people who run the new combined port do not report to anyone. Like the airport they are a public...

topics: agriculture, gateway, political, premier, real-estate

aggregated from: Public Eye Online

The BC Agriculture Council applied to strip migrant farm workers of the labour rights enjoyed by Canadian workers while Steve Thomson, British Columbia's new agriculture and lands minister, was its executive director. In a submission made to the Labo...

aggregated from: Langley Politics Dotcom

Notes from Langley Township Council's regular meeting, Monday night, June 22, 2009.Langley RCMP Superintendent Janice Armstrong gave her quarterly report to COuncil, noting that property crime was down across the board--except for theft from auto. Lo...

topics: agriculture, crime, erosion, federal-government, langley