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...
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...
