The Conservative and Green parties have each filed official letters of complaint to Elections Canada about a "Shun Lunn" campaign aimed at upending Conservative cabinet minister Gary Lunn in his B.C. riding. [Read more...]

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The Conservatives and Green Party accuse Dogwood Initiative of breaching election rules. [Read more...]

The provincial watchdog who investigates lobbyists says he will no longer look into cases of potential wrongdoing because he lacks the legal authority to do his job.... [Read more...]

THE TERRACE and District Chamber of Commerce wants Terrace politicians to back the calls by other northern politicians in support of pipelines and oil tankers. Not everyone, however, is siding with the three mayors [Read more...]

Former forests minister Rich Coleman has been cleared of a conflict-of-interest allegation in his handling of the Western Forests Products file. That's fair. It isn't fair, however, to suggest that he and the B.C. Liberal government were not at fault in allowing the forest company to remove land from its tree farm licences on Vancouver Island in the first place. [Read more...]

Shell Canada plans to continue working in remote Klappan Valley, in disregard of two public calls for the Dutch-owned oil company to cease its pursuit of coalbed methane in northwestern B.C. [Read more...]

Arnie Bellis said he wants to make it clear that Mayor Herb Pond doesn't represent the views of the First Nation near Prince Rupert. Bellis was reacting to recent comments by Pond, who said he favours oil and gas exploration in the area as long as environmental assessments prove that no damage would be caused by such work [Read more...]

On CBC Radio One program, "On the Island", this past Wednesday morning, Gary Lunn, Natural Resources Minister, and the Conservative incumbent for the federal riding of Saanich-Gulf Islands, continued to try to confuse the public about the real status of oil tankers on BC's North Coast. [Read more...]

British Columbians ratcheted up their opposition to a proposed Shell Canada Ltd. coal-bed methane project yesterday as a group of mayors unanimously approved a resolution demanding Premier Gordon Campbell halt the company's drilling [Read more...]

The First Nations Summit has just passed a resolution calling for a 10-year moratorium on all coalbed methane drilling in the province of BC. The resolution comes on the heels of a similar one passed yesterday by the Union of BC Municipalities... [Read more...]

Quebec City's status as a UNESCO World Heritage Site may be put in jeopardy by the construction of the province's first liquefied natural gas terminal, a massive industrial complex on the St. Lawrence River, just 10 kilometres downstream from the historic city [Read more...]

Until this week, Eric Andrews was planning to vote NDP in Saanich-Gulf Islands, the riding Natural Resources Minister Gary Lunn has held since 1997. But the retired provincial civil servant confessed to second thoughts yesterday when pausing for a chat at a mall in Saanich, north of Victoria [Read more...]

Almost 200 people took to the streets of Sidney on Saturday to demand firm commitments from Saanich Gulf-Islands federal election candidates about where they stand on the issue of oil-tanker traffic being permitted to troll the waters of British Columbia’s north-central coast [Read more...]

If there is any part of Canada that won’t forsake the environment in the face of international financial troubles, it’s B.C. Our economy remains strong, ironically thanks to boom times for coal and natural gas as well as urban prosperity. But what’s a committed environmental voter to do? [Read more...]

Those participating in the No Tankers rally gathered at Tulista Park and marched down Fifth Street and up Beacon Avenue to Second Street in Sidney to gather in front of Saanich Gulf Islands Conservative MP Gary Lunn’s constituency office where they waved placards, chanted, sang, listened to the speakers and a couple of songs from the Raging Grannies [Read more...]

The provincial government launched a new plan Monday to reduce the millions of cubic metres of wood left to rot after logging by changing the way it values timber. [Read more...]

The principal achievement of Sarah Palin's term as Alaska's governor, a natural-gas pipeline project backed by $500 million in state tax money, might never be built unless Canadian authorities can strike a deal with some of the country's angry Indian tribes [Read more...]

Three northern B.C. mayors came out on Friday in support of a number of pipeline and port expansion projects they say would provide significant economic benefits for communities across the North. The mayors made the statement on the eve of a rally in Victoria organized by the environmental group the Dogwood Initiative, calling for a ban on tanker traffic on the north central coast [Read more...]

Lawyers for the Capital Regional District were in B.C. Supreme Court in Victoria this week defending a down zoning on lands west of the city against a challenge from the Association of B.C. Landowners and Western Forest Products. [Read more...]

The number of oil spills from a pair of drilling projects off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador has already far exceeded preconstruction estimates, a study released this week says, but the statistics are being disputed by the province's regulator [Read more...]

Support is growing for a moratorium on drilling in an area called the Sacred Headwaters, say opponents of a coal-bed methane project near the Nass River in northern British Columbia. [Read more...]

Provincial government mismanagement created a development crisis in this region, undermining years of regional planning and threatening green space, waterfront and park buffer zones on land between Sooke and Port Renfrew. [Read more...]

In the wake of an impromptu public meeting at Shirley Community Hall Tuesday evening, the future of waterfront land around Jordan River, Muir Creek, Shirley and Otter Point remains in the hands of the Highways Ministry approving officer and a solution to local concerns is no closer. [Read more...]

An open house organized by Western Forest Products was hijacked by frustrated opponents of the forest company's development plans last night. [Read more...]

Company agrees to speak with Tahltan about natives' concerns about impact of project on northwestern B.C. [Read more...]

VANCOUVER — Leaving British Columbia's old-growth forests standing may make more economic sense than cutting them down for timber, especially as the province looks to strategies to cut global warming, a new B.C. study suggests. [Read more...]

Public consultation on Enbridge’s Gateway pipeline project is set to begin in Smithers sometime in November [Read more...]

As the U.S. election campaign kicks into overdrive, Canadian politicians and oil executives are stepping up lobbying efforts to make sure whoever controls the White House keeps purchasing notoriously dirty oil from the Alberta tar sands [Read more...]

Recent comments by Mines Minister Richard Neufeld that "radical environmentalists" shut down drilling in the Klappan Valley, shows how far out of step the B.C. Liberals are with northern values, said John Horgan, NDP Critic for Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources [Read more...]

Support for a ban on LNG (liquefied natural gas) tanker traffic in the waters off BC’s Gulf Islands is growing. Capital Regional District (CRD) directors have backed a Powell River Regional District (PRRD) resolution calling on the federal government to ban tankers travelling through BC’s Inside Passage. [Read more...]

After years of doom and gloom, some B.C. forest company executives have suddenly seen a light at the end of the tunnel, a light so bright they think they're in heaven. What could possibly break their mood of doom and gloom? Log exports. [Read more...]

"The NDP and Carole James are being disingenuous to British Columbians," he said, adding, "They say one thing in Victoria but don't have the conviction to say the same thing to Kitimat residents." [Read more...]

Shell Canada has suspended drilling in the Klappan Valley to allow for further environmental reviews and consultations with stakeholders. [Read more...]

VANCOUVER -- A standoff over the future of a vast swath of forest on the southern tip of Vancouver Island, estimated to be worth about $150-million, is heating up as a regional government contemplates taking a forestry company to court to block its plans to subdivide the area and sell it for development. [Read more...]

Re: "CRD, WFP tangle over forest roads," Aug. 7. The situation has gone beyond enraging and has become ridiculous. How can a Western Forest Products official openly state that the company is clearing roads for subdivision development, and then state that it doesn't have to provide development permits to the Capital Regional District because the land is under forestry use? [Read more...]

Something is seriously wrong when Western Forest Products can argue that it has the right to build roads for subdivisions -- because it's doing the development work on land set aside for forestry. [Read more...]

Western Forest Products is pushing ahead with building roads meant for a housing subdivision, even though the Capital Regional District insists the company doesn’t have the right to do so. In late July, the CRD sent the company a letter demanding it stop building roads on forest land around Jordan River and Shirley. The CRD says the work contravenes development permit rules. However, Western has replied that it does not need a development permit for road building as the land is still private managed forest land and comes under provincial regulations, not CRD rules. [Read more...]

Enbridge Inc. is making big strides with a multibillion-dollar plan to ship crude from Canada's oilsands to Asia, the pipeline operator said Thursday as it reported a more than fourfold jump in second-quarter profit. [Read more...]

After taking over the forestry portfolio a month ago, Prince George-North MLA and Forest and Range Minister Pat Bell has developed a four-point strategy. [Read more...]