The lovely town of Youbou. Photo: snorrigunnarsson.wordpress.com

CVRD OKs $1B project in Youbou

Island town could be transformed by 1,950-unit housing development

Frank Wolf and Todd McGowan are travelling the 1,172km of Enbridge's Proposed Pipeline to capture the ground level perspective on the pipeline's potential impact

Vancouver filmmaker walking, biking from Bruderheim to Kitimat

Filmmaker Frank Wolf and friend Todd McGowan are tracing the path of Enbridge's proposed Northern Gateway pipeline from north of Edmonton to Kitimat, B.C. by bike and on foot.

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Eric Swanson, Dogwood Initiative: "A single spill can devastate lives, economies, ecosystems and cultures."

Make it permanent

Allowing oil tankers would threaten the foundations of a sustainable north coast economy. Where oil moves, oil spills.

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Eric Swanson, Dogwood Initiative: "A single spill can devastate lives, economies, ecosystems and cultures."

Tanker traffic in an oil-spill-sensitive world

Should the informal moratorium on oil tankers off British Columbia’s northern shores be made mandatory? Dogwood's Eric Swanson says yes.

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Lands and Forests

BC’s lands and forests define our province. A vital part of our collective history, it is up to all of us to ensure their sustainable future.

With the cumulative pressures and turbulence from the global economic crisis, the US housing downturn, climate change, the pine beetle epidemic, corporate control of forests and real estate developments, BC’s forests and forestry industry are in need of innovative solutions.

"From Jan. 1, 2003 to June 1, 2008, Canada's forest-products industry saw 38,428 layoffs and 207 mill closings – 90 permanent and 117 indefinite, ... Of these lost jobs, 10,367 were in B.C.", Globe and Mail.

It won’t be easy, but recognizing the challenges we face in BC's forests, and seeing those challenges as opportunities is the first step towards realizing positive change.

Local and diverse control of tenure, a focus on domestic markets, value-added production, revenue sharing for resource based communities, and recognizing forests multiple values and economic uses, are all parts of the solution.

We are all in this together. And we have gained significant successes.

Real solutions do exist in BC's ongoing forest crisis. The Coalition for Sustainable Forest Solutions, along with ordinary British Columbians, are taking part in a growing provincial movement to usher in local, sustainable control of our forest legacy.

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