Trudeau & Premier Clark Urged to Halt Site C Construction
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Area to be Flooded By Site C Dam Was Once Recommended as Provincial Park
Braving freezing temperatures and risking arrest, an alliance of First Nations members and local landowners have camped out on the site of the first European settlement in British Columbia to protect the Peace River from destructive land clearing for the Site C dam.
While the camp has rightfully earned significant media attention, few outside the region are aware that it’s located in an area so high in ecological values that the B.C. government recognizes it as worthy of Provincial Park status, and designates it as an Old Growth Management Area. Read more.
Nova Scotia to Repay ExxonMobil $100M in Royalty Return as Hospital Replacement Postponed
As Nova Scotia is forcing low income seniors to pay more for drugs and the province’s largest hospital is literally swimming in rodents and disease, tax payers are being asked to cough up $100 million to pay off one of the largest oil companies on the planet.
The CBC has revealed that the Nova Scotia government owes an additional $98 million to multinational oil and gas corporation ExxonMobil and its partners. The money will be refunded from royalties earned by the province for Canada’s first offshore natural gas project — the Sable Offshore Energy Project. Read more.
The Peace Valley old-growth forest slated to be clear cut for the Site C dam is just as important, if not more ecologically significant, than the Great Bear Rainforest, says the wildlife biologist and retired provincial government manager who wrote B.C.’s management plan for the area.
“It’s more important from a biodiversity point of view because there’s far less of it,” Rod Backmeyer said in a phone interview.r0
