by webmaster | Apr 13, 2013 | Ancient Rainforest Protection, FOCS in the Media, General News
Twenty years ago today, about 30 residents of Tofino were driving up and down the highway by Long Beach, communicating via handheld radios, tracking a helicopter carrying B.C.’s premier of the day and select media. A local guy listening in on emergency, aviation and...
by webmaster | Mar 26, 2013 | Defend Wild Salmon, General News
Controversial new feedlot starts up Plover Point stocks Atlantic salmon 26 March 2013 — Tofino BC — Mainstream Canada, a subsidiary of Norwegian-owned Cermaq, has begun farming Atlantic salmon at its controversial new feedlot in Clayoquot Sound. The Plover Point open...
by webmaster | Feb 25, 2013 | Campaigns, General News, Jobs
>>NOTE: This job posting is now closed. FOCS is looking for a new Campaigner — a motivated, creative, resourceful strategic thinker to help us build public education and advocacy campaigns to protect Clayoquot Sound from industrial activities. The...
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...
