Sierra BC Wild Blog
Get the inside scoop on Sierra Club BC’s campaigns with the Wild Blog. Written by our campaigners and guest contributors, these postings are full of the newest information on these issues, links and other items of interest to Sierra Club supporters.
Only recently discovered by archeologists, hand-built stone walls sheltered sandy bits of beach where heaps of butter clams burped and spat for us.
Durban has been damnably disappointing. Something like being re-incarnated into a previously unsuccessful and frustrating life. It’s pre-1993 again.
In school we learn about the precautionary principle. But in life, it so often seems that we throw caution to the wind. It’s time we remembered this principle of trying to do no harm. It’s time we listened to the scientists and the First Nations who are telling us to be more cautious.
Increasingly, British Columbians don’t believe these risks are worth taking for non-essential, “cosmetic” purposes, as reflected in public opinion polls and dozens of B.C. municipal bylaws. Provincial legislation to phase out the sale and use of non-essential chemical pesticides would mean healthier communities, healthier families and a healthier environment for all British Columbians.
First Nations stood together today in Vancouver, on Coast Salish Territory, to publicly declare a ban on oil tankers and pipelines on both the north and south coasts. With drumming and singing, gift-giving and speeches, and in the presence of witnesses (the media and those of us who were there as allies), several new First Nations signed the Save the Fraser Declaration, expanding the First...
On November 13th I packed my rain pants, wool socks, gum boots, and a bin filled with educational goodies into a rental Toyota Corolla I’d nicknamed “Blue Steel” for the week. Sierra Club BC was hitting the west coast, school program style.
The actual amount of CO2 that emerges from a Keystone XL or Northern Gateway pipeline (each about 500,000 barrels oil/day = to 2 billion tonnes of carbon (GtC) per 100yrs) constitutes a climatically significant, but not in itself catastrophic ‘carbon bomb’.
As this mystery deepens, the undisputed evidence of ISAv as an international threat was made abundantly clear. BC and its Norwegian salmon farming corporations, together with Canada's DFO, are playing a high-risk game with extremely serious consequences. Should protective measures fail, an unleashed exotic virus in the North Pacific would be a serious international incident with immeasurable...
I didn't really know about this until I happened to chat with some people working in federal departments Parks Canada and Environment Canada in the last year, and they told me in hushed and worried tones about the significant cuts which was hampering their ability to do the kind of work they felt this country needs...
B.C.'s rainforest is one of the best carbon banks of the planet, with some of the highest carbon storage per hectare. Protecting old growth forest is one of the best short term actions we can take to immediately reduce emissions.
