by webmaster | Feb 20, 2013 | Clayoquot Mining Ban, General News
MiningWatch Canada, Friends of Clayoquot Sound, David Suzuki Foundation and Rivers Without Borders have released a list of Top 40 Mining Reforms urgently needed in BC in order to limit the destructiveness of mining on the environment and communities, and to reduce...
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 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...
by dewolfe001 | Nov 5, 2012 | Defend Wild Salmon, General News
Just after the 9am news on November 5th 2012, Long Beach Radio interviewed Bonny Glambeck live on air about the findings of the recent Cohen Inquiry:- Cohen Report Chat With FOCS and Statement From Mainstream Canada on Long Beach Radio – Nov 5, 2012 by Long...