by webmaster | Feb 15, 2013 | Defend Wild Salmon, General News
The ‘Namgis First Nation, on eastern Vancouver Island, is preparing to open the first commercial-scale, land-based Atlantic salmon farm in Canada. Their aim is to prove economic viability in raising Atlantic salmon in tanks on land, rather than open net-cages...
by webmaster | Nov 22, 2012 | Clayoquot Mining Ban, General News
Imperial Metals, a Vancouver-based mining company (also the proponent of a contentious copper mine proposal on Catface Mountain in Ahousaht territory), is keen to explore the potential of re-opening the old Fandora gold mine in the Tranquil Valley, just 20 km...
by webmaster | Nov 16, 2012 | General News
Her yellow rain gear smeared with crude oil, Valerie Langer is standing on the red carpet in the BC legislature lobby. In her gloved hand is a dead oil-soaked seabird. Flecks of oil hit the freshly painted wall as she gesticulates. A distressed commissionaire scurries...
by webmaster | Nov 7, 2012 | Defend Wild Salmon, General News
Friends of Clayoquot Sound were heartened by the final report of the Cohen Commission of Inquiry into the Decline of Sockeye Salmon in the Fraser River. Salmon runs in Clayoquot Sound are equally vulnerable to the stressors outlined by Justice Cohen—the rationale to...
by webmaster | Nov 6, 2012 | Campaigns, General News, Newsletter
Available in many locations around Tofino, Vancouver Island, Vancouver and Victoria. Download FOCS winter newsletter here Articles: Oil-free Clayoquot by Bonny Gambeck Biocultural diversity and reciprocity by Eli Enns Zeitgeist shift: Moving beyond hope by Rex Weyler...
