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Guest blogger: Gabriel Yiu, former BC NDP candidate for Vancouver Fraserview To clearly stand out a guest blogger entry, all such headlines will begin with [GB].During the last provincial election, the BC Liberal Party stated in black and white that ...

topics: bc-government, bc-rail, business, candidate, concert

aggregated from: Public Eye Online

Today, the Campbell administration announced it would be going ahead with the $404 million Northwest Transmission Line. This, after the federal government committed to fund $130 million worth of that project. So where is the remaining money coming fr...

topics: campbell-administration, federal-government, mining

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FACES clean coal.jpg The Federation for American Coal, Energy and Security (FACES of Coal). the latest grassroots organization to join the public conversation on behalf of the coal industry, appe...

topics: business, climate-change, elected, health-care, mining

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salesman.jpg The constellation of coal industry front groups just got a little bit bigger. Last week, the seemingly bottomless pockets of the coal industry pulled out yet another astroturf group cal...

topics: economy, mining

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salesman.jpg Here are the FACES of phony public activismYet another astroturf group has emerged from the seemingly bottomless pockets of the coal industry: Federation for American Coal, Energy and Se...

topics: economy, mining

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2825430279_905a6edc2c.jpg In the latest sally in the war between pro-coal-at-any-cost and anti-mountaintop mining (MTR) advocates, Arch Coal subsidiary Coal-Mac, Inc., of Holden, West Virginia, has ...

topics: environment, environmental, mining, pollution, sierra-club

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3151210530_08e77dc744.jpg Im digging deep, and maybe even stepping on a few toes, but a Guardian report via ThinkProgress (or is it vice versa?) cites coal industry spokesman Joe Lucas as saying that...

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The unravelling of the proposed legislation setting out a new relationship with First Nations remains a fascinating mystery. In the spring, the government was on the brink of introducing the act, with the support of most provincial-level First Nation...

topics: environmental, forestry, mining, premier

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ThumbsDown.jpg Editor's note: feel free to go to Jim Hoggan's response to this ridiculous op-ed and add your voice to the conversation.Global warming is something humans should welcome and embrace as...

topics: climate-change, environmental, global-warming, mining, sustainability

aggregated from: Public Eye Online

Earlier, Minister of State for Mining Randy Hawes told Public Eye Radio he doesn't plan to revisit the provincial government's ban on uranium mining. But is that policy in conflict with the Campbell administration's commitment to make climate change ...

topics: campbell-administration, climate-change, mining, provincial-government